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Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy (self.technology)
submitted 2 months ago by Buttflapper to c/technology
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I wanted to get printer photo paper for my printer, a Canon. I went to Walmart, They had nothing. Went to Target, they had one pack of photo paper and it was crazy expensive, so I went to micro center. That one was just as expensive. So finally I went back to Amazon, which I was trying to avoid, and saw the price 25 to 40% lower than anywhere I had been. Literally everything that I was looking for, I could find within seconds. Not even Best buy has even close to the amount of inventory or variety, even when you're shopping online....

Therefore, I think Amazon has a literal monopoly in the tech industry right now, you're literally forced to buy from them, because unless you have the money and financial fortitude to protest with your wallet, you're going to be buying from them. There's no other choice. They have so aggressively and dominantly taken over the supply chain market that no other tech company can currently compete with them in any aspect at all. You will be paying 40 to 50% more on everything by cutting out Amazon, and no one has the money for that anymore unless you're upper middle class or above

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Walmart online is eating Amazon they don't have a monopoly

[–] Veneroso 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Walmart online is pretty good for most things. Not everything. But if I can get it on Walmart I do.... Walmart plus is pretty good. It currently comes with Paramount Plus, which doesn't show ads with my pi-hole (so far, Roku), and compared with Amazon Prime showing ads.....

Anyway fuck Amazon.

[–] Vorticity 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty amazing to me that a company hasanagednto become so reviled that Walmart is the better and more ethical option.

[–] zeppo 3 points 2 months ago

It's like Elon Musk has managed to make Mark Zuckerberg seem like a good person by comparison. Or Trump was so awful that Democrats look back and think "huh, GWB was a decent president"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Only in the US unfortunately