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re: Update on Amazon

Hi. Thank You for your great work.

I hope one day people will realize that there is no just Amazon in the world.

Amazon is phagocyte that eats up all its competitors and small business and deploys many other deceitful tactics. Amazon has been boycotted by the Ethical Consumer Association due to its abhorrently poor ethical record,

Yet, there are alternatives. From Bookfinder to Biblio, we don't need to pretend that without Amazon we can't live.

I bothers me that I try to avoid Amazon at all cost, that hard working people with higher moral standards feel forced to having to give in to its luring traps.

Keep up the good work! ;-)

Gio
3 years ago
re: New feature: best price

WHY NOT AMAZON?

Amazon.com Inc have been critized for:

- Employing anti union consultancy firm
According to Unite the Union, Amazon continues to this day to see trade union representation as illegitimate.

- Poor working conditions (ie. no sick leave allowed, even if doctor-prescribed; compulsory 10½hour overnight shift at the end of a five-day week, which means they have to work every day of the week; set quotas for the number of items to be picked or packed in an hour that even a manager described as “ridiculous” etc.)

- Amazon squeeze publishers and writers through their monopoly
- Environmental reporting practically nonexistent.
- Criticised for poor carbon reporting (although you won't mind this but it is strongly related to pollution)
- Criticised for slow progress on improving precious metal supply chain (which means more pollution, slavery etc.).
- Sale of non FSC-approved paper products
- Sale of beauty products tested on animals
- Sale of leather products & goods. They sell leather (some of which comes from animals who have been skinned alive).
- Sale of rape and sexual violence simulation games
- Sale of uncertified diamonds (ie. more pollution and slavery)
- Supply chain policy practically inexistent
- Sale of 'tour guide for paedophiles'
- Member of USCIB lobby group

Hope BM will go back to its original path...one day, maybe.

Thanks!
Gio

Gio
13 years ago