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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.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.
Yes. I have warehouse distribution in Allentown. I do agree with you but they are trying to upgrade the city. In 2013 we planned to move to New Jersey but we are talking massive layoff. And only 10 to 15 employees are worth relocating, training, interruptions, loss of sales during shutdown etc. that need to be considered.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"?
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!"?
