Economic blackout
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Buy Tide at Costco and break even? Buy Persil at Costco and win all around?
Does anyone use Persil? I don’t get my clothes dirty like I used to and even if it’s not quite as good as Tide I’ll bet it works fine. Your experience?
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Has anyone seen whether Friday’s no-buying effort has had any effect?
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@Steve-Miller said in Economic blackout:
Buy Tide at Costco and break even? Buy Persil at Costco and win all around?
Does anyone use Persil? I don’t get my clothes dirty like I used to and even if it’s not quite as good as Tide I’ll bet it works fine. Your experience?
We’ve been doing Tide but will revisit Kirkland next time we buy. We used to use Kirkland and it worked fine. Not sure why we switched.
Rumor is that the German company that makes Persil makes Kirkland. Is that what you were referring to?
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I wondered about Amazon's profit sources... subscriptions, or online sales???
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@Rontuner thanks, I'll look into that.
My Amazon prime expires in April I think, so we'll keep it until then (unless I get a prorated refund?)
I already pay for prime, so taking that expenditure elsewhere makes sense. As much as I hate Walmart, I was thinking that I would prefer joining Walmart's program over staying with Amazon.
But Costco, yes, that would be much better.
But are a lot of things I can’t get anywhere else.
Maybe I don’t need them.
Yes, this is how my thinking is going....
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@Rontuner thanks Ron!
AWS is Amazon Web Services, which I'm pretty sure is the tech backbone for many, many university systems. I was surprised it's only <16%. Interesting.
But of course it's the online stores and third-party sellers at 65% that make up the biggest chunk.
What this chart doesn't show is that, probably the biggest reason for those sales numbers is because of those subscriptions, along with the purchase bundles non-subscribers do to get free shipping.
So without the subscriptions, people will shop elsewhere.
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@ShiroKuro said in Economic blackout:
AWS is Amazon Web Services, which I'm pretty sure is the tech backbone for many, many university systems. I was surprised it's only <16%. Interesting.
That was my first reaction until I looked at profit.
AWS is their profit maker.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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I would imagine that AWS has fewer associated costs, the main costs are the tech infrastructure and the people managing the tech. Which is surely a much smaller number of people involved than sales, since product sales, require distribution logistics and people etc...
I have the impression that AWS was fully embedded as a major internet service provider before anyone even noticed.
I wonder if AWS does medical, like those "mychart" systems that hospitals and clinics use....
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Piqué, on the subject of Buy Nothing groups, I found that (at least around here) they are HYPER local. So local, that on this island of about 490,000 people the groups are only about a few blocks in size...even smaller than what I would call a neighborhood. It might be hard to find what you want, or find a taker for what you have. Often you have to extend your reach farther than that. So examine the geographical breadth of your various local groups. You may also find that some groups are not called Buy Nothing, but have some different name, and different rules.
