No one is on Lemmy because they like shitty corps so I need your help
I’m at a loss. Increasingly whenever I order New on eBay or wherever, the order gets fulfilled by Amazon.
When I complain to the site I bought it from they shrug.
I’m regularly paying more for items and still funding an undeniably awful company
Depending on where you live, just order less. Try to pick up the stuff you order or go to shops directly (or sometimes question if you really need it). Its not all or nothing, every single product less bought with them is a step in the right direction
This is how I’ve been shopping for years, but not to be woe is me, I’m a wheelchair user with a variety of medical nonsense that keeps me in the house. Trying to shop ethically online used to be feasible, but it’s increasingly impossible
Retail is drop in bucket for Amazon. Their main revenue comes from AWS. How do you plan to avoid that?
I used to believe this stat too, then I looked it up. AWS is about 12.5% of their income. Online retail is about 50%. Your point still stands though, you can’t easily avoid Amazon’s revenue stream.
AWS is about 12.5% of their income.
I mentioned revenue, not income. The income from AWS is low because much of the revenue is reinvested in expansion of AWS.
Then we’re both wrong. A deeper dive into newer numbers shows AWS REVENUE is 16% (12.5% is a year or two old). online stores REVENUE is 50%. The thing is that online stores recently started losing money so AWS INCOME is currently Amazon’s bread winner. (Edit: swipe type spelling mistakes)
What’s the difference?
Revenue represents sales, whereas income represents profits.
Why not just say profit then?
Profit would be income - expenses.
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But honestly I don’t AWS is as bad as their retail side to there employees.
Vendors fulfil through Amazon because they handle returns.
Even big stores utilize them for this.
Suffice to say, it is difficult unless you’re outside the US.
You accept that you live in the most late stage capitalist country of all time that’s very pro monopoly.
And then you move I guess. No one believes USA will ever change for the better.
Really it’s the internet that enables these monopolies. It nullifies space for information. Like a little pizza place can only have so much reach. But if the product is teleported, then that little pizza operation can just keep growing and growing smoothly and taking more of the market. And it can happen really fast.
eBay is just as filthy of a corp as Amazon. Who are you fooling?
