Amazon is taking over American commerce and destroying independent small businesses. They collect a large amount of personal data to use and share, while ignoring or deflecting consumer privacy concerns. They are known to pay low wages to their employees in an intense work environment. They monopolize all markets with online retail, and even grocery delivery, which drives local businesses to ruin.

We can quit Amazon and source products from small businesses that make a positive impact on our local economies. If it takes some effort to find local alternatives, that’s okay. It can give us some time to think about whether or not we really need that thing… If you can’t find it locally, search for it online. And, even on Amazon, you can look at the seller and buy directly from them. They will likely appreciate the direct sale.

The list below is from Subcompass (2022):

Media and Entertainment

• MGM Holdings
• Twitch
• Audible
• GoodReads
• IMDb
• Box Office Mojo
• Prime Video
• YES Network (15% ownership)
• Echo
• Wondery
• Brilliance Publishing
• ComiXology
• Freevee
• Graphiq
• Kindle Direct Publishing
• University Esports
• Amazon Music
• Amazon Publishing
• Amazon Studios

E-Commerce

• Zappos
• Shopbop
• Prime
• Prime Now
• AbeBooks
• Woot
• Amazon Appstore
• Amazon Cash
• Amazon Digital Software & Video Games
• Amazon Marketplace
• Amazon Pay
• Book Depository
• Kindle Store
• 1-Click

Grocery and Retail

• Whole Foods
• Amazon Fresh
• Amazon Go
• Treasure Truck

Devices and Services

• Ring
• Alexa
• Amazon Fire
• Blink
• Fire TV
• Kindle
• Amazon Halo
• Amazon Luna
• Astro
• Eero
• Kuiper Systems
• Zoox

Health Care

• PillPack
• Amazon Pharmacy

Household

• Amazon Home Services
• Neighbors App

Cloud Computing

• Amazon Web Services
• Mechanical Turk
• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon Glacier
• Amazon Machine Image
• Amazon Neptune
• Amazon Product Advertising API
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Rekognition
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon S3
• Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon SimpleDB
• AWS Lambda
• CloudFront
• DynamoDB
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Elastic Block Store
• Elastic Compute Cloud
• Elastic File System
• ElastiCache
• Simple Notification Service
• Simple Queue Service
• Virtual Private Cloud

Technology

• Amazon Drive
• Annapurna Labs
• Body Labs
• Book Finder
• CreateSpace
• Digital Photography Review
• Lab126
• Lumberyard
• Silk

Proprietary Brands

• 365
• Goodthreads
• 206 Collective
• Amazon Elements
• Amazon Essentials
• AmazonBasics
• Happy Belly
• Mae
• Pinzon
• Presto!
• Solimo
• Vedaka
• Wag
• Wickedly Prime

Logistics

• Amazon Business
• Amazon Maritime
• Amazon Prime Air
• Amazon Robotics
• Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services