Does anyone have any good alternatives to Walmart, Amazon, or Target? I'm looking for a general store that sells household products and preferably isn't owned by a billionaire or a company that adds to our surveillance state... So does anyone have any online, or physical, alternatives?

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I didn't think about using amazon to search for an item to buy on another site, that could work well! Like the other user said, Costco might be my best bet as far as chains go, and for any other physical stores I'll just have to try harder to find local ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Oh yea. Amazon is basically the average price these days. The trick is finding the places with free shipping for orders that aren't already crazy expensive. Which ... might be a lot harder these days with the price of diesel vs when I was shopping a lot.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, plus Amazon uses dark patterns to get you to sign up for prime, and then prime isn't even fast shipping anymore...it bothers me enough I can stand to pay a little more somewhere else.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    If you search on Amazon, and then buy elsewhere, Amazon still makes money because of that search…

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    lol no. That is absolutely not how click through contracts work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Ughughu: Sponsored listings (marked "Sponsored"). These are pay-per-click ads — the seller pays Amazon roughly $0.75–$1.50 per click, whether or not you buy anything. So every click on a sponsored product puts money in Amazon's pocket directly from the seller's ad budget. This is a big business: Amazon's advertising segment generates tens of billions of dollars a year, precisely because sellers pay for clicks even when shoppers don't convert.

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