Not alternatives, but the apps I use to see what companies own what and who they donated money to are GoodsUniteUs and Buycott. As far as getting rid of Amazon, depending on where you live and what you’re looking for, you might be able to find the store or product on amazon and then go to their website if it isn’t some dropship scheme or finding a local place that has an alternative, hard to beat that same day shipping, but might be viable.
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.
What are these apps and websites? Really struggling to dump Amazon…
Not alternatives, but the apps I use to see what companies own what and who they donated money to are GoodsUniteUs and Buycott. As far as getting rid of Amazon, depending on where you live and what you’re looking for, you might be able to find the store or product on amazon and then go to their website if it isn’t some dropship scheme or finding a local place that has an alternative, hard to beat that same day shipping, but might be viable.
Ebay and buying direct is working for me. Their streaming service is shit so thatvwas an easy one for me
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.