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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm basing my stance on the fact that none of the many people I know in real life who tend to boycott Amazon for "bad business practices" give the slightest crap about vetting the practices of any of the local businesses they frequent. They don't know and they don't care. They only tend to get all "enlightened" about business practices with businesses like Amagoogle. Maybe everyone here is different, but I'd be willing to bet it's merely some. [...]
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I know that there are local "name and shame" groups on Facebook, which are basically just a more structured version of what has always happened to local business (and individuals).
Certainly it is "merely some" that participate, but it's not an insignificant some.
I grew up outside a town that gained a big proportion of its income from tourism. If you believe some of the locals, there were businesses there that survived only because the tourists weren't privy to local knowledge.
As has already been pointed out, a big reason why complaints in forums like this are about big business is because those are the businesses we have in common. There's little point talking about "Joe Blow's Pizza" because it wouldn't find much interest here. There seems little to justify assuming that complainants here only ever complain about Amazon.