Not to sound all elitist or whatever, but who the fuck buys their fresh groceries at Amazon in the first place…
Look, I know Amazon is fucking huge, and ubiquitous, especially in the US, but if I lived there, and had any other option, imma choose that.
This evil, dystopian surveillance-state shit just rams that point home.
I will never use a store like this. Ever. Even if it becomes the only option to buy from corporate. I would rather fucking grow the shit with my own bare hands, and raise the animals as needed, than ever submit myself to something like that.
Similarly, the government can tear my petrol, entirely manual car from my cold, dead hands. And my cash. And my physical credit cards and physical ID.
I will not budge on any of those things.
I implore others, if you can, to follow suit where possible. We’re sleepwalking into a complete dystopia, the more we acquiesce to all this shit…
Yeah, even I went in to a Whole Foods in downtown LA, when I was there...
I honestly didn't think much of it. We have dime-a-dozen equivalents here, but they're usually independently owned, or part of a small chain...
Admittedly Coles and Woolworths (where most people do their grocery shopping) are basically Walmart, but...
If, hypothetically, Atlassian or some similar Australian "tech company" bought out one of these chains, I honestly doubt I would ever shop there again.
Maybe it's easier to boycott these places (for example Woolworths, over their decision to refuse to sell any Australia Day merch), here, just because we have more options, in general..? I wouldn't have thought that, given the Coles/Woolies duopoly, but I guess... Everything's relative.
Then again the UK allegedly has like 5 of these major chains, stratified by class (i.e. so that a Waitrose shopper never mixes with Asda/Tesco types). I'm kind of glad that I don't live in a country that does that, beyond pricing, tbh, lol...
Not to sound all elitist or whatever, but who the fuck buys their fresh groceries at Amazon in the first place…
Look, I know Amazon is fucking huge, and ubiquitous, especially in the US, but if I lived there, and had any other option, imma choose that.
This evil, dystopian surveillance-state shit just rams that point home.
I will never use a store like this. Ever. Even if it becomes the only option to buy from corporate. I would rather fucking grow the shit with my own bare hands, and raise the animals as needed, than ever submit myself to something like that.
Similarly, the government can tear my petrol, entirely manual car from my cold, dead hands. And my cash. And my physical credit cards and physical ID.
I will not budge on any of those things.
I implore others, if you can, to follow suit where possible. We’re sleepwalking into a complete dystopia, the more we acquiesce to all this shit…
Whole Foods is ubiquitous and was popular long before Amazon bought them... so if you buy at whole foods I guess it's like buying at Amazon.
Yeah, even I went in to a Whole Foods in downtown LA, when I was there...
I honestly didn't think much of it. We have dime-a-dozen equivalents here, but they're usually independently owned, or part of a small chain...
Admittedly Coles and Woolworths (where most people do their grocery shopping) are basically Walmart, but...
If, hypothetically, Atlassian or some similar Australian "tech company" bought out one of these chains, I honestly doubt I would ever shop there again.
Maybe it's easier to boycott these places (for example Woolworths, over their decision to refuse to sell any Australia Day merch), here, just because we have more options, in general..? I wouldn't have thought that, given the Coles/Woolies duopoly, but I guess... Everything's relative.
Then again the UK allegedly has like 5 of these major chains, stratified by class (i.e. so that a Waitrose shopper never mixes with Asda/Tesco types). I'm kind of glad that I don't live in a country that does that, beyond pricing, tbh, lol...