I am of the opinion that it will help Québec in the long run and give local companies some breathing room to innovate, test, fail, iterate, refine and discover better way to ship to customers (I pray for something better than Intelcom/Dragonfly 🙏🤣 ).
Amazon just dropped a huge marketshare of online purchases in Québec (51% of total value in dollars), they almost had the control on how local businesses would have to reach customers online and suck every profit out of each transactions.
Moreover, Amazon will now have to deal with higher rate of return, damaged and lost packages while on less than stellar delivery (I blame specifically Intelcom).
Oh no - what are quebequois (sp?) going to do without an Amazon warehouse in their region?!? How will they survive?!?
Issue is more with American laws allowing for anti-humane treatment of workers, as has been the countries tradition since it was founded 2 decades ago.
Fuck you Amazon. I’m going to inconvenience myself a lot more from now on to stop giving you money.
The solution would be easy if everyone would do it. Stop buying from Amazon. I’m trying to buy anything I need directly from the provider or at good old fashioned stores.
I look locally for items online first, but where I am at some computer/hardware/tool items are hard to get especially with Canadian Tire turning into a terrible place to buy tools. Amazon is good for folks like my mom that doesn’t drive and is not very mobile. Amazon will delivery heavy items to her door so she doesn’t have to hobble out to a store
Amazon has been my last purchasing option for many years now - brick & mortar, CL/FB market used, eBay and then Amazon if all fails and I really need the thing.
Edit - the added benefit of this approach is that friction introduced in the process allows me a cool down period to evaluate whether something is truly needed. Reducing the friction is precisely part of Amazon’s business strategy, and why they had a patent on 1-click shopping until a few yrs ago.
I’ve been doing this since 2020. Just the other day I let it slip to some co-workers that I don’t have a prime membership and the shock on their faces kinda spooked me.
i use bookshop.org whenever i need to order a book online. a portion of the sale goes to my local book coop.
