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Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement. (text.npr.org)

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More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 years ago

A lot of those stores actually closed down because of Amazon.

Many that offer specialized equipment are located in locations that are far or difficult to access and/or have opening hours that are the same as my work hours.

I do my best to buy local and from physical shops, but sometimes nobody had what you're looking for and Amazon can get it to your door in 24 hours.

I hate the company but fuck is it practical. They need a serious competitor but nobody wants to even try with the amount of money Bezos got.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Use Amazon, only when you have no other option.

Not "no other option with 1 day shipping"

Not "no other option that delivers to my door"

Not "no other option that doesn't cost $10 more"

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

That's what I try to do at best at possible.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

And you will end up using Amazon most of the time this way anyway.

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