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Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Definitely would have been my first choice to look also, but do you think that staples or office max is going to have something cheaper than amazon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm thinking op isn't the brightest tool on the short bus. Walmart has a far better market place/e-commerce platform than shitass Amazon. Same delivery windows of 1-3 says. Can order groceries that aren't fuckin wierd marketplace seller with a garage packed with dented pallets of Nutella, wild rice and 5hr energy drinks lol. The groceries actually come from the store or the next nearest one. They basically already had the warehouse infrastructure. The dumped billions with a fuckin B last year just on developing and expanding on drone deliveries. Plus when your order gets fucked up from Walmart... YOU TALK TO A FUCKIN PERSON WHO ISNT HALF WAY ACCROSS THE PLANET WITH 3 PRELOADED REPLIES TO FIX EVERY PROBLEM. Fuuuuuuuuuck Amazon customer service. But also unless op was looking for the holy grail of printers I will bet my annual salary that Walmart's online store had the exact printer they were looking for or one that is an exact copy but another brand. So dramatic to write this whole post up for such a dumb reason lol.

Edit: Also no person or brand selling on Amazon is exclusively selling on Amazon. If the printer wasn't available anywhere it's prolly a discontinued model or a fuck up by the mfg. Such a dumb post.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

How did Walmart become the good guy in all this shit? What the ever living fuck is going on with capitalism?

I gave up on Amazon a while ago except for very niche things, and Walmart if great. Orde groceries, they tell me to come get them, dude loads them up in my car and tells me have a good day. It’s amazing. No extra charge, nothing. Don’t have to deal with any of the people of Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So you are arguing its a duopoly?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It depends on the paper based on some quick searching, but I can pickup the paper from staples faster than Amazon will deliver it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This would be a great point if we were discussing how fast you can get the item and not the cost of the item.