Once upon a time, local stores bought items from local manufacturers and resold them to the public. Then they found they could purchase things from foreign lands cheaper. Local manufacturers dried up, jobs went away, poverty worsened. But those foreign goods, they were cheaper, so we survived.
Amazon came along and figured out they could create a vast shipping network and do it cheaper so they replaced the local stores.
China figured out they had tremendous power to make/ship/sell direct.
You literally can’t buy anything anywhere but from China, Most of the stuff Amazon has also comes from China.
Amazon lobbies to have us stop buying from China.
No one can afford not to by from China while the Oligarchs try to piledrive us into the mud for our lunchmoney.
You cannot adequately replace Amazon/Ali/Temu/Shien with anything. There’s nothing to replace them with. If a local alternative existed, they’d just source their own goods from the same places.
Local shops with national content are long gone. Local shops with foreign goods are even rare. All we have anymore is chains that own chains buying goods that are made as cheaply as possible in sweatshops elsewhere.
Once upon a time, local stores bought items from local manufacturers and resold them to the public. Then they found they could purchase things from foreign lands cheaper. Local manufacturers dried up, jobs went away, poverty worsened. But those foreign goods, they were cheaper, so we survived.
Amazon came along and figured out they could create a vast shipping network and do it cheaper so they replaced the local stores.
China figured out they had tremendous power to make/ship/sell direct.
You literally can’t buy anything anywhere but from China, Most of the stuff Amazon has also comes from China.
Amazon lobbies to have us stop buying from China.
No one can afford not to by from China while the Oligarchs try to piledrive us into the mud for our lunchmoney.
You cannot adequately replace Amazon/Ali/Temu/Shien with anything. There’s nothing to replace them with. If a local alternative existed, they’d just source their own goods from the same places.
Local shops with national content are long gone. Local shops with foreign goods are even rare. All we have anymore is chains that own chains buying goods that are made as cheaply as possible in sweatshops elsewhere.