• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s really impressive you’ve never bought a thing from Amazon. I also avoid chains, but I do buy from Amazon because I get free gift cards I spend there, but I don’t give them my own money, and just use it to pad my wardrobe or buy birthday gifts. But I haven’t been in a fast food chain or a Walmart in years. I am always amazed when I drive by a chain restaurant and it’s full of people, like why would you want to eat that when there’s a world of great food out there?

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      1 year ago

      I can sort of understand people who can’t bring themselves to avoid Amazon - again, for me it’s really just a gut-level aversion that happens to coincide with an ethical stance. If I didn’t have that gut-level aversion, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t be able to resist either.

      But yeah - the chain restaurant/coffee shop thing just makes no sense to me at all, no matter how I look at it. There are regional and local versions of pretty much anything one might want, and they’re pretty much universally both better and cheaper.