Should we feel guilty about using Amazon?

[Tierne]

I order about once a week, I've read the arguments for and against. I just feel like a lazy cow!

YABU = Dont feel guilty
YANBU = Feel guilty

Got to say if there was a war on the government could totally get Amazon to handle all the supplies and logistics!

The information side is why people don't like Tesco clubcard. They collect information on your shopping habits etc not just personal information.

Of course Tesco and every retailer/ media outlet worldwide have done this for centuries. It's how they stay in business, sell the popular products, not stock up on 100 of an item that only one person bought once. But hey ho, if people want to be daft and not get savings, it's of no concern of mine. I just find it funny.

Yes, "knowledge" is for the benefit of the customer as well as the shop.

"Shops" have collected "information" for decades, in fact ever since shops even existed.

Our family had a corner convenience store/newsagents back in the 1970's. Obviously we didn't have computerised databases, but we knew our customer's shopping/spending habits either by recognising/remembering those who came in daily, or by notes we made in the ledgers we had for the delivery rounds and special orders for Easter & Christmas etc.

Just by memory we'd "prompt" customers if we thought they'd want something they hadn't asked for. Likewise, we'd "prompt" customers based on their buying habits.

Tesco et all do the same, i.e. what shop keepers have done for decades.

It's not just shops, all businesses have done the same.

Obviously, with the internet and computerised databases, it's now just on a much bigger scale, but the basics of a retailer/service provider "knowing" their customers harks back to the days of the first businesses!

Well more than one of my purchases has been a costume for a school dressing up day. So if the schools would like to stop the dressing up days...

I had forgotten that many small businesses use them as a platform, it's also a good point.

Yep amazing how many people don't get that and instead basically don tinfoil hats claiming they are stealing your data. 😂They've been doing this for years guys, keep up!

If you don't want your 'data' stolen, you need to sell your house, sell all of your possessions, quit your job, delete every social media/forum account, close your bank accounts and go and move to a remote location somewhere random and live off the land.

No? Didn't think so. 😂Amazon has many flaws, this isn't one of them. Wrong target to poke at.