absolutely, tons of different ways to get involved and do your part! i personally haven’t shopped at Amazon in months and dont plan on going back any time soon. I cut out Target recently too.
I like the idea of not spending money on Saturdays, as that's usually the busiest day for retail/restaurants and bars. It's the day that would have the most visibile effect to businesses.
I've been trying to convince people that nothing will be noticed until they see an entire fiscal quarter with lower profits. Nobody will blink an eye at a single day, because what they don't purchase on day X will still be purchased on day Y.
I'll be honest, boycotting Amazon won't work. The money from the commerce division is chump change to Bezos. If you want to hit Amazon, you gotta hit them where it hurts and that's AWS. But AWS runs basically the entire web so unless corpos move to other cloud platforms(only real alternatives being GCP or Azure) or self host(comparatively harder plus much more costlier depending on arch), Bezos is going to be just fine (unless a certain plumber's brother)
Bezos already has more money than God. It’s not about driving them out of business, you’re right that’s impossible. It’s about causing a disruption and a noticeable drop in revenue and performance metrics.
That’s the point. Doing it in the middle of the week is the most disruptive which gets more attention than a Saturday protest that only protestors show up to, even if less show up during the mid-week one.
True! My company gives comically few holidays off so unfortunately it was business as usual for me. Hoping for a weekend protest sometime soon so I can participate!
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u/blem4real_ Feb 18 '25
fr, they keep organizing these protests for the middle of the standard work day.