This only works if you go to the green countries:
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Kualdir
joined 1 month ago
Personally I try to go towards store brands for almost anything.
I'm from the Netherlands and currently shop and Jumbo the most. My drinks are all Jumbo, most food is as well. I even have shampoo and bodywash from them. Its all good quality (their conditioner is actually better than an 8 euro branded one for my hair) and much cheaper. They even source their chocolate through Tony Chocolony so even that is ethical.
The only replacement I haven't been able to find sadly is something for my Kellogs Choco Pops (the store brand are plastic in comparison) but its something I can live without so I'm finishing what I have (I had stock) and after that will be trying out random ones.
In the end I'd also like to remind everyone: Don't let perfect stand in the way of good. You do not need to pay attention to everything you buy, just make changes where you can in the long term. We're in a marathon not a sprint.
Ok so this is not entirely answering your question (as other comments already provided the alternatives I'd give for cola) but I had this issue as well and tackled it another way:
I looked into buying other types of soda like Ice Tea Sparkling. I personally really don't like any cola that's not coca cola but have just replaced it with Ice Tea Sparkling and Lemon-Lime drinks from the store brand of the store I shop at (Initially Lipton and Sprite, now store brand since my move to BuyFromEU). Perhaps this could be interesting to you as well.
Yeahhh I don't know who thought that was a good name hahaha
Steam isn't a monopoly, there are other choices but they just suck. Epic games in terms of game availability already replaces a good 80% of my active library, itch, ubisoft, ea, etc also exist but are just so bad as well.
Steam is basically the only option... That cares about gamers and actually provides a good service.
I never said I cared about that in the first place. But even after games are removed from Steam they still allow you to download it whenever. Its only really an issue should Gabe choose a replacement for him that isn't as pro gamers as he is.
This community is about buying european, not complaining about having DRM.
See you already found the reason it is ok, but yeah what you are saying is completely right when talking about sites like G2A, Kinguin, etc where YOU can sell your keys as that opens the gates for illegal stuff
Hence I mentioned legit resellers (from the EU) that do support the publishers.
My purchase on fanatical
Good question! Real resellers (so NOT g2a, etc) get their keys from publishers directly (so they pay for them). The publishers get these keys from steam for free and by buying them from a reseller steam takes 0% of the money. So by using an EU reseller more money stays here.
Ohh I've actually been on their website sometime. Good to know they're UK based thanks!
Update:
What a chad move