Boycott Amazon

[Skull Pilot]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/t...o-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Inside Amazon apos s Warehouse - The Morning Call

What an awful company, and a disgrace to this country. This filth treats workers like garbage because they have gotten the politicians, who are in their pockets, to flood the country with illegal aliens and legal immigrants, plus the lunatic H1-B program displacing more workers, to maximize their leverage over employees.

I will no longer do business with this wretched scourge.

I love Amazon and will continue to be a Prime subscriber for the rest of my life

 

[Asclepias]

when a person needs a leftwing rag to run their lives. No wonder our country is in so much trouble. You whiners are always FREE start your OWN COMPANIES and you can treat YOUR employees to a lap of Luxury if YOU SO PLEASE. let us know how long you stay in business.

I did start my own company. Going on 11 years with no end in sight. My kids will take it over.

 

[rhodescholar]

The best out of this article is that Amazon is the place overachievers go to feel bad about themselves. The brutality of the promotion plan assures that only the best rise. That explains Amazon's success. There isn't anything about Amazon's practice that I disagree with.

For you and all those others claiming amazon is a success story; you ARE WRONG. They have rarely had a profitable quarter, yet bezos has managed to earn a massive salary.

Second, any company that encourages behind the back sniping and ganging up on less popular employees just so they can avoid being fired, ala the TV show Survivor, is a fucking dump for childish idiots lacking self-esteem. Running a company like the Stasi where each person was an informant, even children on their parents, is a sign of a diseased mentality, which bezos clearly suffers from, some type of mental disorder.

 

[rhodescholar]

If we boycott all the companies that lefties don't like, there would be none left to do business with.

I am extremely conservative, and I despise amazon. Corporate conservatives think they are conservative, but they are nothing more than lackeys for capitalist robber barons. True Conservatives like myself despise both big givernment AND big corporations.

 

[rhodescholar]

I love Amazon and will continue to be a Prime subscriber for the rest of my life

Did you say that hoping jeffy bezos will pat you on the head and say: "here's a winner!, he's a hero of the Fatherland!, and we love you so, so much!"?

 

[blackhawk]

Bought something from Amazon yesterday.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Tell them to start their own, better amazon.
UPS hires grunt workers to load and unload trucks at a frenzied pace in order to weed out those who can't handle it. They force everyone to pay union dues without union representation until they've been with the company for a year. Knowing most will quit, they get easy union funding that way.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I love Amazon and will continue to be a Prime subscriber for the rest of my life

Did you say that hoping jeffy bezos will pat you on the head and say: "here's a winner!, he's a hero of the Fatherland!, and we love you so, so much!"?

Why the hell should I give up the conveniences and benefits I get as a Prime subscriber because some of you sheep don't like a company?

 

[BullKurtz]

Amazon appears to believe that you live in order to work when it is the other way round in real life.

For piece of shit bums like you neither is true.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I love Amazon and will continue to be a Prime subscriber for the rest of my life

Did you say that hoping jeffy bezos will pat you on the head and say: "here's a winner!, he's a hero of the Fatherland!, and we love you so, so much!"?

Why the hell should I give up the conveniences and benefits I get as a Prime subscriber because some of you sheep don't like a company?

Love Amazon Prime.
Use it daily for books and at least once a week for purchases.
Where else can you go and order something,get a good price and have it on your doorstep the next day,and in a lot of cases with no shipping charges?
Hell,I use it when I could have just as easily driven to the store a few miles away because I dont need it immediately and I dont feel like driving.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I love Amazon and will continue to be a Prime subscriber for the rest of my life

Did you say that hoping jeffy bezos will pat you on the head and say: "here's a winner!, he's a hero of the Fatherland!, and we love you so, so much!"?

Why the hell should I give up the conveniences and benefits I get as a Prime subscriber because some of you sheep don't like a company?

Love Amazon Prime.
Use it daily for books and at least once a week for purchases.
Where else can you go and order something,get a good price and have it on your doorstep the next day,and in a lot of cases with no shipping charges?
Hell,I use it when I could have just as easily driven to the store a few miles away because I dont need it immediately and I dont feel like driving.

By driving less you are saving the planet

 

[Stephanie]

The best out of this article is that Amazon is the place overachievers go to feel bad about themselves. The brutality of the promotion plan assures that only the best rise. That explains Amazon's success. There isn't anything about Amazon's practice that I disagree with.

For you and all those others claiming amazon is a success story; you ARE WRONG. They have rarely had a profitable quarter, yet bezos has managed to earn a massive salary.

Second, any company that encourages behind the back sniping and ganging up on less popular employees just so they can avoid being fired, ala the TV show Survivor, is a fucking dump for childish idiots lacking self-esteem. Running a company like the Stasi where each person was an informant, even children on their parents, is a sign of a diseased mentality, which bezos clearly suffers from, some type of mental disorder.

Pin a medal on your chest and why are we suppose to care about this? You're the one with the problem. so you hate Amazon. whoopee

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I love Amazon and will continue to be a Prime subscriber for the rest of my life

Did you say that hoping jeffy bezos will pat you on the head and say: "here's a winner!, he's a hero of the Fatherland!, and we love you so, so much!"?

Why the hell should I give up the conveniences and benefits I get as a Prime subscriber because some of you sheep don't like a company?

Love Amazon Prime.
Use it daily for books and at least once a week for purchases.
Where else can you go and order something,get a good price and have it on your doorstep the next day,and in a lot of cases with no shipping charges?
Hell,I use it when I could have just as easily driven to the store a few miles away because I dont need it immediately and I dont feel like driving.

By driving less you are saving the planet

Man,I never knew being a tree hugger involved being lazy.
This liberal shit is easy.

 

[Disir]

Because of its massive advertizing budget and other ties to the company the media often seems to be in bed with Amazon. This means you seldom hear anything bad about the retail behemoth and stories are always being put before us as free advertising. While the people who love and support Amazon might claim the points above show Amazon and its CEO to be clever, cunning, and masters of the game, an argument can be make that an aura of evil hangs over much of what it has created.

Amazon is a major job killer and should be recognized as such. While politicians tout how they helped Amazon create a few hundred or thousand jobs in a certain area or state they often fail to comprehend the number of jobs they destroyed or the damage they do to the communities devastated by the unfair competition they have endorsed. Amazon abuses and exploits the brick and mortar stores that line streets throughout America. These are the stores that employ our family members, support little league teams in the community, and add value to our lives.

The low prices many consumers buying from the company claim to enjoy have a hidden price often paid for by others. In playing "hardball" it is difficult to overlook how the company has exploited and targeted concerns working within the established rules that positively affect and add to our society. People should consider what kind of community and society they want in coming years before jumping on the Amazon bandwagon. The article below explores fifteen things Amazon is in no hurry to tell you.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2015/08/fifteen-things-amazon-wont-tell-you.html

I order books from Amazon and the Marketplace because nobody else carries them. Amazon does a crap job with organization on their site so I have to know what I want before going in to search. Mom and pop stores don't carry them and won't order them for me. Used bookstores are often very, very disorganized and you can't find much because they don't bother to break it down to even the general direction of subject matter.

Brick and mortar stores and mom and pop stores are killing themselves. I came across an article this last year that discussed how people were going into the brick and mortar stores to try on clothes and then ordering them on line. I'm sure that people do that. There are a great many of us that are going in to check out the selection and if it doesn't exist or is third world then we don't even bother to go back. The question is, why do I have to go online to order it?

There seems to be this attitude of this is our selection and you will buy it, like it and anything else is unfair competition because I have no intention of adapting to the times or changing one little thing. I will open up shop when I want to and you guess the times. I am going to open up a restaurant but I am not going to put a menu up online. I am going to open a gift store that looks exactly like two others on the same street. I'm going to open up a grocery store but have a very limited amount of items. I am going to open a convenience store where people can pay 5 bucks for the convenience of grabbing a gallon of milk.

The american public is malleable and easily manipulated. The mom and pop stores are a thing of the past unless they have some very special item only they can produce and sell. They have an entire industry devoted to swaying public opinion and separating you from your money. There may be one offs but until the majority of people begin to exercise critical thinking there is no stopping this. This is how you know people in power basically herd the population where they want them to go. I was thinking the other day when everyone was upset over the concept of people having chips implanted in humans. The industry found a way around this instinctive negative reaction and found a way to not only get it done but have people pay for the privilege in the form of cell phones. In 20 years or so people will probably pay to have a chip implanted if it provides some function they tell you that you cant do without..

There is a great truth in that. Advertising works by telling you that you need it. At a certain level that is very true when discussing consumerism as an issue. But, that isn't what the problems are.......that I can tell. How well does the business meet the needs of the community? Not the needs that the business decides the community needs but the actual needs of the community. There are plenty of towns across the country that you have to travel 30 miles just to get basics and those are found at Walmart.

Sometimes it is the little things that are important. Brick and mortar department stores can be hideous. They cater to taller women and often lack professional clothing and what they do have is geared for older women or you have to buy extra trendy teeny-bopper clothing. So, if it's third world then I'm not going. It would be grand if they had clothing that I needed and sometimes they do.....online.

Mom and pop stores don't have to be a thing of the past and this is what I find so puzzling. It isn't the big things. It's the little things. I want to buy local. The best mechanics are going to be found locally. The best carpenters are going to be found locally. The best bakeries are going to be local. Real butchers--not the fake ones--are going to be local. The guy that owns the hardware store for some twenty years is more likely to shoot straight and point me in the right direction even if he doesn't carry it than a sales rep that has been told how to sell a product. He is personally invested and gives a damn. That's how they stay in business.

When I travel, I want to go to local stores not a store that I can find anywhere. I want to pick up things like this:
Wee Bee Jammin - Toe Jam
or Dorian's Jalapeno Pepper Jelly and bring them back. If I am in the area then I'm going to stop here:
Ben Jack Larado Gourmet Foods from Big River Emporium

When I am on the road, I am looking for restaurants like those that are on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. I have a copy of name your state Off the Beaten Path. I am looking for family owned motels.

When I take my family out to dinner (about 8 people), I expect you to be open when you say you will be open and I have to consider the dietary needs of three of those people. Consistency and a website.

What I am not going to buy are lotion/soap gift sets, country (or any) knick-knacks, signs, angels, dancing lady music boxes, scarfs, crochet purses or candles. I am not going to go to a store that does things crappy because they can or is the equivalent of an ebay junk shop.

There has never been a more opportune time for mom and pop stores and restaurants or buy American. We are online, we are reviewing and we are sharing tips.

 

[Ame®icano]

If we boycott all the companies that lefties don't like, there would be none left to do business with.

I am extremely conservative, and I despise amazon. Corporate conservatives think they are conservative, but they are nothing more than lackeys for capitalist robber barons. True Conservatives like myself despise both big givernment AND big corporations.

Let me remind you, this call for boycott is based solely on New York Times article. If NYT is not liberal institution, and not biased, then I could understand the "outrage". Second, they "interviewed" former employees. I would like to read opinions from current ones. And third, if Amazon is so bad, why people are working there, why don't they just quit the shitty place?

 

[HenryBHough]

So much stuff I use has to be special-ordered by the local stores but they can have it for me in ten days to two weeks.

From Amazon (since it totals more than the minimum $35) I get it in about five (that's "5", liberals) days for the same price or slightly less.

 

[boedicca]

If we boycott all the companies that lefties don't like, there would be none left to do business with.

I am extremely conservative, and I despise amazon. Corporate conservatives think they are conservative, but they are nothing more than lackeys for capitalist robber barons. True Conservatives like myself despise both big givernment AND big corporations.

Let me remind you, this call for boycott is based solely on New York Times article. If NYT is not liberal institution, and not biased, then I could understand the "outrage". Second, they "interviewed former employees only. I would like to read opinions from current ones. And third, if Amazon is so bad, why people are working there, why don't they just quit the shitty place?

Note that Jeff Bezos owns a major competitor of the NYT: The Washington Post.

Methinks this colors the NYT's agenda more than a tad.

 

[whitehall]

Has anyone been to Allentown recently? You used to have to drive through the town before they finished interstate 78 but now you go around it to get to N.J. and NY and you don't even notice. Billy Joel even wrote a song about Allentown and it wasn't intended to promote it as a tourist site. Allentown is part of the "rust belt" in case nobody noticed and there ain't much more than Amazon that keeps the people employed. It might be a political coup for the idiotic radical left to close down Amazon in their anti-corporate frenzy regardless of the economic consequences. Was it Karl Marx or some other freaking socialist idiot that today's left still loves who coined the phrase "the end justifies the means"?

 

[Disir]

So much stuff I use has to be special-ordered by the local stores but they can have it for me in ten days to two weeks.

From Amazon (since it totals more than the minimum $35) I get it in about five (that's "5", liberals) days for the same price or slightly less.

So, the local store KNOWS that you need this and they refuse to make sure that it is available or in stock when you need it?

 

[Asclepias]

Because of its massive advertizing budget and other ties to the company the media often seems to be in bed with Amazon. This means you seldom hear anything bad about the retail behemoth and stories are always being put before us as free advertising. While the people who love and support Amazon might claim the points above show Amazon and its CEO to be clever, cunning, and masters of the game, an argument can be make that an aura of evil hangs over much of what it has created.

Amazon is a major job killer and should be recognized as such. While politicians tout how they helped Amazon create a few hundred or thousand jobs in a certain area or state they often fail to comprehend the number of jobs they destroyed or the damage they do to the communities devastated by the unfair competition they have endorsed. Amazon abuses and exploits the brick and mortar stores that line streets throughout America. These are the stores that employ our family members, support little league teams in the community, and add value to our lives.

The low prices many consumers buying from the company claim to enjoy have a hidden price often paid for by others. In playing "hardball" it is difficult to overlook how the company has exploited and targeted concerns working within the established rules that positively affect and add to our society. People should consider what kind of community and society they want in coming years before jumping on the Amazon bandwagon. The article below explores fifteen things Amazon is in no hurry to tell you.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2015/08/fifteen-things-amazon-wont-tell-you.html

I order books from Amazon and the Marketplace because nobody else carries them. Amazon does a crap job with organization on their site so I have to know what I want before going in to search. Mom and pop stores don't carry them and won't order them for me. Used bookstores are often very, very disorganized and you can't find much because they don't bother to break it down to even the general direction of subject matter.

Brick and mortar stores and mom and pop stores are killing themselves. I came across an article this last year that discussed how people were going into the brick and mortar stores to try on clothes and then ordering them on line. I'm sure that people do that. There are a great many of us that are going in to check out the selection and if it doesn't exist or is third world then we don't even bother to go back. The question is, why do I have to go online to order it?

There seems to be this attitude of this is our selection and you will buy it, like it and anything else is unfair competition because I have no intention of adapting to the times or changing one little thing. I will open up shop when I want to and you guess the times. I am going to open up a restaurant but I am not going to put a menu up online. I am going to open a gift store that looks exactly like two others on the same street. I'm going to open up a grocery store but have a very limited amount of items. I am going to open a convenience store where people can pay 5 bucks for the convenience of grabbing a gallon of milk.

The american public is malleable and easily manipulated. The mom and pop stores are a thing of the past unless they have some very special item only they can produce and sell. They have an entire industry devoted to swaying public opinion and separating you from your money. There may be one offs but until the majority of people begin to exercise critical thinking there is no stopping this. This is how you know people in power basically herd the population where they want them to go. I was thinking the other day when everyone was upset over the concept of people having chips implanted in humans. The industry found a way around this instinctive negative reaction and found a way to not only get it done but have people pay for the privilege in the form of cell phones. In 20 years or so people will probably pay to have a chip implanted if it provides some function they tell you that you cant do without..

There is a great truth in that. Advertising works by telling you that you need it. At a certain level that is very true when discussing consumerism as an issue. But, that isn't what the problems are.......that I can tell. How well does the business meet the needs of the community? Not the needs that the business decides the community needs but the actual needs of the community. There are plenty of towns across the country that you have to travel 30 miles just to get basics and those are found at Walmart.

Sometimes it is the little things that are important. Brick and mortar department stores can be hideous. They cater to taller women and often lack professional clothing and what they do have is geared for older women or you have to buy extra trendy teeny-bopper clothing. So, if it's third world then I'm not going. It would be grand if they had clothing that I needed and sometimes they do.....online.

Mom and pop stores don't have to be a thing of the past and this is what I find so puzzling. It isn't the big things. It's the little things. I want to buy local. The best mechanics are going to be found locally. The best carpenters are going to be found locally. The best bakeries are going to be local. Real butchers--not the fake ones--are going to be local. The guy that owns the hardware store for some twenty years is more likely to shoot straight and point me in the right direction even if he doesn't carry it than a sales rep that has been told how to sell a product. He is personally invested and gives a damn. That's how they stay in business.

When I travel, I want to go to local stores not a store that I can find anywhere. I want to pick up things like this:
Wee Bee Jammin - Toe Jam
or Dorian's Jalapeno Pepper Jelly and bring them back. If I am in the area then I'm going to stop here:
Ben Jack Larado Gourmet Foods from Big River Emporium

When I am on the road, I am looking for restaurants like those that are on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. I have a copy of name your state Off the Beaten Path. I am looking for family owned motels.

When I take my family out to dinner (about 8 people), I expect you to be open when you say you will be open and I have to consider the dietary needs of three of those people. Consistency and a website.

What I am not going to buy are lotion/soap gift sets, country (or any) knick-knacks, signs, angels, dancing lady music boxes, scarfs, crochet purses or candles. I am not going to go to a store that does things crappy because they can or is the equivalent of an ebay junk shop.

There has never been a more opportune time for mom and pop stores and restaurants or buy American. We are online, we are reviewing and we are sharing tips.

Good stuff. Organize. You may not get to make the big money but you can make a living. Get your patents so the big box stores cant copy and run you out of business by mass producing and lowering the price.