USPS picking winners and losers in retail world
In my neighborhood, I frequently walk past “shop local” signs in the windows of struggling stores.
Yet I don’t feel guilty ordering most of my family’s household goods on Amazon. In a world of fair competition, there will be winners and losers.
But when a mail truck pulls up filled to the top with Amazon boxes for my neighbors and me, I do feel some guilt. Like many close observers of the shipping business, I know a secret about the federal government’s relationship with Amazon: The U.S. Postal Service delivers the company’s boxes well below its own costs. Like an accelerant added to a fire, this subsidy is speeding up the collapse of traditional retailers in the U.S. and providing an unfair advantage for Amazon.
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Steve
I first look for my books at the local bookstore, but so often, I can’t find what I want. The bookstores sell what the average person wants, and I have always been weird and not like everyone else in reading tastes.
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Jeff Bezos is a NWO/Deep State operative and much much worse! I do not buy from Amazon unless I cannot find the item I really need anywhere else. Even if I have to pay more.
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