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Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Here in Germany there are still plenty of independent online retailers and they're competitive with Amazon. I always try to avoid buying from Amazon and for tech products that's usually no problem.

[–] Kyouki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Netherlands here and as well we have so many local shops that outbeat Amazon that it isn't even fair. There is a very small chance I buy something of Amazon, think the only time I did was for a replacement item for a Dyson.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think “beat out” may have been what you meant. And in this example I would probably just say they “beat” Amazon.

[–] Kyouki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How dare you expose my mobile typing and/or my not-native language speaker! /s

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Same in Spain. I don't even have an Amazon account, btw.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here in Italy practically no one is as quick as Amazon tho

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So? What's the deal in waiting a couple of days?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Exactly. I convinced my wife that we really don't need everything to arrive in 0-2 days, it's totally fine if things take 3-5 days. So I cancelled our Prime sub, and it's been absolutely fine. In fact, we spend a bit less due to that minimum order size. We still usually get things in 2-3 days if we go w/ Amazon (we're right next to a hub), but we've been buying from more retailers now that we plan for longer delivery times.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sometimes I need stuff faster.

And usually it's more than a couple of days. For example I always order PC parts from other stores, and some of them take over two weeks to deliver. Of course that's not an urgent purchase... Usually.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Let me guess, the EU actually put laws in place to ”remediate that problem” like a ”functioning government”.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I'm also in Spain, and only use Amazon for things i genuinely cannot find elsewhere, which happens to be like once a year

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you have some good examples? I recently moved there, and want to avoid Amazon, when possible

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago

I like to order tech stuff from mindfactory.de

[–] Bz1sen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

In more general terms, you can look up the item at e.g. Idealo.de or other product comparison sites and then decide where to buy. Amazon is most often not the cheapest, even including additional delivery cost