Prime is a good service. I don’t see why people should have to choose between workers being treated well and not having to deal with the hell that is shopping at a physical store.
Seriously. Drive to the store. Find parking. Walk to the general location where item should be. Item isn’t there. Try to find a clerk (there are 2 in the whole store). Get item or settle for whatever is there. Wait in line. Self checkout (we were told this would reduce wait time). Pay more because store is more expensive. Drive home. The whole thing took an hour of your time and you didn’t even get the exact thing you wanted. Also, good luck if you have kids or are busy or don’t have a car or are disabled.
The solution is labor laws. Voting with your wallet. Doesn’t. Work. It has never worked. Voting with your wallet is the solution companies want you to try because they know actual regulation would actually work.
Pull in to the store that I'm passing on my way home anyway, get an item that I can be pretty sure is not counterfeit or broken, have it immediately not in a day or two or next week, it's not all bad.
Yes I sometimes shop online but these days I try to go direct to the manufacturer's own web store, or I'll buy it on a product-niche site such as bhphoto.com that isn't chock full of anonymous sellers hawking made-in-china garbage.
I know this is a common complaint, but I haven’t experienced it personally. A lot of the things I get on Amazon are name-brand items I would’ve bought in a store anyways (e.g. paper towels or mouthwash).
I'm actually making a point of shopping brick and mortar these days for that exact reason. It's gotten to the point where I'm not able to tell what's real and what's a scam on there so it's not worth the risk -at all.
That’s fine, you don’t have to prefer Amazon. Some people do, but that’s beside point, which is that workers should have rights to protect them, and voting with your wallet isn’t an effective way to get there.
Labor laws that will never happen. Yeah, sure, you can't stop Amazon exploiting its workers by 'voting with your wallet', but you _are_ complicit in the abuse by spending there.
Seriously. Drive to the store. Find parking. Walk to the general location where item should be. Item isn’t there. Try to find a clerk (there are 2 in the whole store). Get item or settle for whatever is there. Wait in line. Self checkout (we were told this would reduce wait time). Pay more because store is more expensive. Drive home. The whole thing took an hour of your time and you didn’t even get the exact thing you wanted. Also, good luck if you have kids or are busy or don’t have a car or are disabled.
The solution is labor laws. Voting with your wallet. Doesn’t. Work. It has never worked. Voting with your wallet is the solution companies want you to try because they know actual regulation would actually work.