this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
52 points (98.1% liked)

Canada

7942 readers
1563 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


๐Ÿ Meta


๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Provinces / Territories


๐Ÿ™๏ธ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


๐Ÿ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


๐Ÿ’ป Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


๐Ÿ’ต Finance, Shopping, Sales


๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Politics


๐Ÿ Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Good thing my wife and I canceled our Amazon Account in January. Seeing shit like that show up on Amazon makes me wanna puke. They fired 3700 employees in Quebec recently and now this. Canadians, let"s boycott them all, there are alternatives to American products out there.

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] cygnus 17 points 3 days ago

Amazon is a marketplace โ€” they don't make these hats. They are a terrible company but these hats aren't really a reason why.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Anything that can be ordered through amazon can usually be ordered from another company, Canadian or not, and sent by Canada Post - who are way easier to deal with than amazon couriers. You can also search for items on google maps for hits on local store websites.

[โ€“] Snowstorm 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There is multiple levels of problem from Quebec point of view. Quick delivery paid by Prime without Quebec infrastructure wonโ€™t happen. Why pay for it? General boycott of companies that a) pay taxes in the US and b) show support for the current US administration. Any money thatโ€™s not spent developing Canadian infrastructure is a problem with our sovereignty challenge.

Wallmart as most of the same issues. Shopify need his CEO to stop encouraging Trump, but sometimes it allow local business to sell directly to you. I would be interested in what works for you in term of alternatives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well, in our case, we cancelled all American based subscriptions. We have replaced them with European based services or local instances (for shopping, we are back to brick and mortar and Canadian owned first). The first services to go were all Google ones (we canceled all of them including Gmail, Photos, Drive and YouTube premium). Then is was all Facebook accounts (closed) and Instagram. We were not on X so that was not an issue. In my case, I quit hanging around in Reddit and started looking into alternatives (such as Lemmy). So far, we don't miss anything. The only service we are still keeping for now is Netflix as we haven't found a great alternative yet. I have restarted Torrenting and currently looking into building my own Plex server for media management.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wats the deal with that now, is Amazon going back to Canada Post or who's gonna do the last mile now?

[โ€“] Snowstorm 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Smaller companies that only handle logistics and delivery. But itโ€™s been Amazon ways for a while that none of their subcontractors can grow. They will make it unpredictable so itโ€™s difficult to invest and come back to handle things themselves if a local company come close to making a descent business. They will end the contract and move to a new subcontractor just to prevent a local company to grow and gain leverage. Just like they are aggressively against union.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

That practice is actually what made me quit using Amazon even before this latest bullshit. I live in a condo, so if I'm not home, they can't deliver. Every major courier (Canada Post, FedEx, etc) will just take it to one of their shipping locations and I'll pick it up on the way home from work. With the Amazon couriers, I end up playing phone tag with a person who unfortunately has very poor English, and just generally getting frustrated. Plus the tracking numbers just straight up don't work.

[โ€“] SplashJackson 4 points 3 days ago

Gotta make a a Canadian knockoff of Amazon... call it Yukon or something, Youkon? That sounds stupidly modern; ok now we just gotta outperform Amazon within Canada