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HurlingDurling@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

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Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

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HurlingDurling@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Amazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary reveals. The company also makes it alarmingly easy to sell dangerous items to children.
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  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    TLDR, not an Onion headline, just a test to see what Amazon will allow. A person came up with a “Release” brand drink, filled bottles with urine, successfully listed them on Amazon, but only shipped them to friends that ordered them. Other people ordered them too though, but were not sent the product.

    Another example of a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t curate their products/services. Costs too much money they would only profit 234 billion instead of 244 billion.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      This is totally an Onion headline, just not an Onion article.

      • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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        Touche

    • joelthelion@lemmy.world
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      Another example of a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t curate their products/services. Costs too much money they would only profit 234 billion instead of 244 billion.

      In the long term it’s a terrible strategy. People will lose confidence and stop shopping there. I’ve almost stopped and I know I’m not the only one.

      Not that most executives care about long term…

      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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        People will lose confidence and stop shopping there.

        Not if they replace your lost piss for free.

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          Naw they didn’t even need me to send it back! I got the keep the piss and they sent me more free piss!

          Pissful win

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        Well, the thing with that is Amazon has already integrated into so many other markets that it doesn’t matter what you the consumer do

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      And they’re going to spend 1 billion dollars on themselves to make sure they don’t end up spending millions on others.

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    Well, someone’s gotta take the piss out of Amazon.

    • Piecemakers@lemmy.world
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      🫳🏼🎤💥 That’s a wrap, everyone. Close the thread 🤌🏼

      • Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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        Babedi boobedi 🤌

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    “Reality” is going to make the onion go out of business.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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      Hasn’t happened yet, never will

      Satire stronk

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    Can someone link text, theres a paywall

    • bbbbb@lemmy.world
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      https://archive.ph/8nNcQ

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
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      Not in this community

      • thorbot@lemmy.world
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        In this time of year?

  • LegionElite@lemmy.world
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    Idk why but, this really pissed me off!

  • SnakeGS@lemmy.world
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    So they do give a piss about it

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    Rumor has it that the polish pis party made a large order

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    BE Man, Amazon must be really pissed off about this…

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