4 February 2025 — Two weeks ago, Amazon decided that it would rather close of all of its Quebec warehouses than negotiate with the union at its DXT4 warehouse
Definitely a perfect world. I kept my Amazon account and keep an eye out whenever there's a huge discount on a product such as their warehouse deals. I was too slow to finalize my order of an APC UPS that was over 50% off.
Yeah I don't shop Amazon anymore but my parents use my prime account for tv so when I asked them if I could cancel it, my mom just said she would start paying it and I'm not trying to pass off my payments to my parents so unless I can somehow teach my 60+ year old tech-illiterate parents the ways of the sea, I'm stuck handing my money to the fuckers (the company are the fuckers, not my parents)
For anyone wondering, they have a lot of stuff, mostly generic self-branded stuff. Better than you'd get on Temu, but don't expect very high quality stuff for the low prices that they have.
Shopping "hub"? No. But online Canadian shops still exist, they are separated into niches though.
You can either choose the monopoly controlling the entire market and abusing their staff, or smaller companies that you have to spend an extra minute searching up.
On China, most of your stuff is coming from China anyways. This is a neutral fact, not good or bad. Just a truth of globalization. China can manufacture things cheaply, so almost everything is manufactured there in 2025.