You didn't know this already?
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I knew a lot of it, but the amount of trash being created is catastrophic.

I personally have always refused to drink bottled water unless it is an emergency. I carry a stainless water container with me everywhere. Water bottles are one of my triggers, hate them. Always picking them up from people throwing them out their window. I reuse bags, but they eventually get thrown away.

I have already told the story on my refurbished Pixel 3 that I gave $65 for on Ebay years ago, but the number of phones being discarded per year is mind blowing, was not aware of that. Much of it to have the very latest phone available.

Out here in the boondocks we are fortunate to have trash service, so no recycling service. I wasn't aware the recycling wasn't really getting recycled anyway.

I don't feel like it is the seller's responsibility to save us from ourselves, it's their job to sell as much as they can.

I feel it is the buyers job to be responsible.

Amazon has pretty much destroyed the retail sales stores and most recently they have damaged UPS.
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How Amazon isn’t considered a monopoly…..

Walmart as well.

I’d rather go back to multiple stores with a bunch of different options. Afraid that ship has “sale’d”’ (horrible pun).
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Excellent point! Even Walmart is trying become viable in the same business as Amazon, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

It's kind of ironic how I happened to watch this show on Netflix, my daughter recommended it when I was sharing with them how much I saved on a few items buying the identical items on Ebay.
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You want to see something that will make you want to puke?

Go to a land fill after a good windy day and look up into the trees at all the plastic shopping bags. Now imagine the below scene over a couple miles.

But yea, out of site, out of mind.



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I am at the point where I purposely pay more at other stores.

If I can avoid chinesium, even better.

We used to have Gibsons, Alco, Kmart, Target, and others. Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Ultimate, etc. Dillons, Albertons, Safeway....

Now it's one monolith box store, one monolith internet store, and generally one monolith grocery store.

Sigh.
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The amount of junk produced is astounding. Basically for every niche and market it seems like there are endless cheap useless products produced. Toys come to mind for sure. But fast fashion and clothing industry in general is maybe one of the worst offenders.
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My farmer parents kept everything. EVERYTHING. They went through times where you only had what you had, there was no driving to the store to get it.

I now live on that farm, 15 miles from the nearest town, 180 miles from a town larger than 30k. Small town people are bad, can't imagine how dependent large city folk are on disposable consumer items.
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Um, if you can name two, there's no monopoly. :-)
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We're getting a new oven.

$3,000 purchase being made sight-unseen because stores just don't carry stuff like that in stock anymore.

Consumers kinda dug their own graves in a lot of ways. I can't imagine buying appliances without ever being able to so much as pull the handle to see if it feels cheap is what folks had in mind when they started shopping online but that's where we are now.

We're seeing less inventory and more of that sort of purchasing with cars as well.

I really don't care for it at all.
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I have kind of found it’s become a self fulfilling negative for the brick and mortars. Even huge places like target have very little in stock. They seem to keep stock low because of online competition but because stock is low they are very unreliable so people are less likely to plan on getting everything there, so they just get it all online regardless. Further worsening things for the store and their desire to maintain stock levels.

I really don’t understand how people do instacart. If I ordered instacart from Target, based on my experience with their site showing things being available vs reality, I am certain 25% of my order wouldn’t show up in the bags.
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Add in Amazon same day delivery for basic stuff and its hard to shop elsewhere
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Its like Demolition Man but instead of Taco Bell it’s Amazon.
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I absolutely fkn love NOT recycling
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