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Even worse is when you try to "support local" and discover that, sure, the local hardware store sponsors the town's little league team, but the owner also reposts racist memes on his personal social media page. You can't win.

I mean, even in the cities you're lucky to have a choice of three different corporate grocery stores that underpay their workers to choose from. Costco is alright but, from a non-member perspective, I don't think it's practical to make that your only source of groceries.

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I suspect the fedral government will just buy more unsold Teslas

Yeah, Costco is great. One of the few places I don't feel bad shopping at here in a red state.

We cancelled Amazon Prime, and I won't buy on their platform anymore. I bought something off Ebay, and sure enough it came from Amazon anyway. I guess they either dropped shipped or they fulfill their orders. I've bought a few things straight from the company and the price was the same. Shipping took a little longer, but I'll gladly wait if means not supporting these companies that grovel to dictators.

Kudos for supporting trans people and you should absolutely get rid of Amazon who's responsible for union busting and dangerous labor practices that have resulted in the death of their employees.

I finally got a different credit card to use outside of my Amazon Prime card because all that did was encourage me to have a prime subscription and buy shit on amazon...so "I'm doing my part" I guess.

I also canceled Prime and wrote something that would crack up whomever read it (presuming anyone actually reads those things).

I struggle with this narrative, because it's just not that simple. This is pretty much just something that small business owners like to say to guilt people into buying their stuff. Small businesses still need to compete on price and quality.

Large retailers still employ local people, and your pension fund probably owns shares in them, or you can buy shares directly yourself.

Some small local retailers have very shady employment practices. I don't think employees are necessarily paid or treated better in small businesses. Some might be great, others are terrible.

Having said that, buying locally produced seasonal food directly from growers makes a lot of sense. Fresher, more nutritious, fewer food miles, less middle men.

Basically, local Butcher baker and green grocer.

I tried this out by searching for Amazon, and if this website was all you knew, you'd come away thinking it was a rather left leaning company, with a donation distribution of 68% Democrat and 32% Republican. That may or may not be true, but it ignores all of the hostile working conditions and anti-union behavior they are responsible for.

Just saying, don't rely solely on this app for evaluating companies.

https://www.goodsuniteus.com/brands/#/brand/amazon

This app still has Sears in it. No way is it properly maintained.

It's not fast, but you could try Ebay if a Goodwill isn't stocked enough for you

I guess you have to just make a choice and nothing is going to be perfect.

No ethical consumption under capitalism. Just do what you can.

What are these apps and websites? Really struggling to dump Amazon…

the cool part about voting with your wallet is 99% of your mandatory budget spend where you are locked in and have little to no control over what company you use (power/water/garbage utilities, rent or mortgage, internet, health insurance) all goes to companies that support the fascists anyway!

I’m a huge advocate of using “ugly but serviceable” stuff. That said, my-day-to-day shoes are wearing to the point that I can tell what the ants had for lunch. Not sure I can get away with making my own leather moccasins.

But I like, need food, almost every day