• numlok@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Ugh, here’s a new wrinkle (at least to me), that literally showed up in my inbox as I was reading this post.

    I’m actively trying to avoid Amazon, researched and found the site of a small company making the product I’m looking for, and then find out that Amazon is handling their shipping.

    No mention of this anywhere on their site.

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      19 hours ago

      This just happened to me. I purchased shoes and they shipped via Amazon even though I didn’t buy them there.

      I think that’s part of what people don’t understand. Amazon isn’t a website that sells stuff, they are a dozen infrastructure based industries.

      Shut down their website and they still have the logistics to fulfill for the sites you shop on and their servers are probably hosting them too.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.