Hit Trump where it hurts.

[Skidmore]

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[PuppyBismark]

1. Amazon does not seem to care

i called amazon and spoke with a supervisor who informed me that Amazon does indeed stock merchandise from controversial suppliers and there is nothing one can do about that.

Well... we can look for other places to do business.

We should start a country-wide effort to boycott Amazon.

[Hortensis]

2. Maybe pick your battles, Puppy? Take on a smaller player

like Macy's, or whatever's close?

We live in a rural area, and Amazon is a flawed but amazingly wonderful part of our wellbeing. My favorite insomnia activity is "surfing" Amazon books, discovering treasures as I punt from topic to topic, review to review. I loved and miss browsing Vroman's in Pasadena with all the other people who think that's a great way to spend a Friday evening after dinner out, but even Vroman's wasn't available at all hours and its stock infinitely smaller. I normally forget most of what I've ordered for little more than the $3.99 shipping charge, so the deliveries to our door are fun surprises. I hear they'll eventually be by drone...

Amazon and others of its type are a revolution that, like other revolutions, involves destruction of much that is good, but I won't fight this and there's certainly not enough malice in me to go after Ivanka that or any other way. Fact is, I'd never have purchased her or Donald's stuff anyway. The brand is fused with vulgarity in my mind, and I'm decades too mature to care to teeter around on 5" heels. Yuck.

[spiderpig]

5. Agree with you Hortensis.

I live in the burbs of a large metropolitan area, but due to physical restrictions don't drive anymore. Even if I use our lame transit system, I'm limited in what I can haul home.

Amazon has links to everything, true - including products we don't like. But it's been a lifeline to me. I still patronize the local grocery that delivers, and try to maximize my shopping when Mr. pig is off work. But when he's out of town for several weeks I know i where I can get toilet paper in a pinch.*

*Hey, maybe that's a use for Ivanka's reduced-to-clear bin.

[Hortensis]

6. Lol. I read an article about her shoe company being sued

for copying. Sorry to say, but her obvious knockoffs were distinctly inferior design-wise, tweaks making them clunky and ungraceful. Wouldn't use one for your suggested purpose, but not because they were too good for it.

As for Amazon, yesterday wanted some good-quality cardamom seeds, still fairly fresh. Even a half-day trip to Atlanta might not find them (often aged and darkened in Indian and Panasian markets), but two-day delivery should mean I can make one of my husband's favorite cakes tomorrow.

Amazon, etc., mean we can keep our California tastes in an area where slight accommodation to changing demographics meant some grocery clerks literally refused to learn what fresh ginger was when it started being stocked. They were proud of their godly ignorance of this and other "foreign" things (like Napa cabbage and sesame oil), even after I had them smell it--"This is ginger, the real thing. Smells good, huh?"

When that didn't work I got stern about those items, but Amazon helps protect them from other satanic exposures from the outer world. Another great, but under-appreciated virtue. The discretion of to-the-door delivery is valuable for far more than pornography.

[moonscape]

3. Sorry, can't give up my Amazon. Trump

has taken enough time and energy from me, filled me with angst for a time, but I won't let him steal my Amazon too!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. It's not as if the only possible thing you can

buy at any of those outlets is what Ivanka's company makes. Just don't purchase her crap, and they'll quickly stop carrying it.