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Originally Posted by eschwartz
We will stop shopping at Amazon at the same time we stop shopping at every other large multinational, who does the same thing.
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You mean, like
Costco?
Am I saying that Amazon treats it's staff so horrendously that I won't shop there? No. But I don't buy this they-are-all-the-same. They aren't. Some, like Costco and overstock.com, are better. Compared to other employers in mainland China, Foxconn is probably better. And some are indeed much worse than Amazon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/wo...ing-homes.html
So while I'm not boycotting Amazon, I am trying to buy tea from Taiwan.
One good thing about Amazon is that when they acquire a well-managed retailer -- think
Zappos.com -- they are smart enough not to Amazonize it.