• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Who do you buy from then that you know has better warehouse worker conditions?

    I’ve been reading first hand comments since the Digg days, and can be summed up consistently as:

    No prior warehouse experience - doom and gloom unfair work conditions, Amazon evil

    Prior warehouse experience - pretty typical, better than average, but metrics are annoying mental overhead.

    So I ask with sincerity - do you know that the places you shop app are actually better, or are you just anti Amazon because you have heard bad things, but don’t know about others?

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      1 year ago

      I assume that person is simply making it up. They did not learn about the working conditions in ~2007. I assume the first articles about that came many years later. Google seems to have removed the custom date range, so I can’t check. Feels like that came up around 2015. wiki names 2011

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      1 year ago

      I’ve heard Costco is decent to workers and the prices are good, so I try that when I can. There are a few other places that I like for specific items (Chapman’s Icecream)

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      1 year ago

      Image: Billionaires beautifully shine absolutely NOTHING into the lives of people who defend them online.

      Besos could easily have the best paid workers, with the best conditions, the best customer service, require delivery that cares, ensure the best quality goods, and still be over a hundred thousand times richer than a millionaire, but he doesn’t. He wants the extra money more. So much power, so much money, so much squeezing the normal folk just a bit harder for a bit more profit.

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      1 year ago

      LOL, so much rage in your reply.

      I’m anti Amazon because of bad things. I buy stuff through smaller retailer from my country, even if they cost a bit more/shipping is delayed one or two days.

      I can’t obviously know “how much evil” other companies are, but in the meanwhile I can pretty much avoid those that are definitely “very evil”.