Dear Amazon

Dear Amazon,

I went down the street today to try to buy

A clay set, red ribbons and some beads,

Seems simple but,

All the stores where I could usually buy these,

Do not exist anymore.

Apparently, I have to buy them from you,

And since so many of your workers 

Are rightfully on strike,

I guess your 24 hour delivery, will be overdue. 

Reviews

[Dylan Macadham]

Ah yes, times and mores change.
Bittersweet read, well-writ!
Dylan

[Davidgeo]

Unfettered capitalism is bad, we have already figured this out as a society multiple times and it breaks my heart that the only one's who've learned are the people taking advantage. This kind of thing already happened in America with the oil industry (standard oil) and the steel industry (carnegie steel) and the railroad industry etc. etc.... the government stepped in and broke up these companies and forced what was left to compete with each other. The result was more innovation at lower cost for everyone (aka real growth). We've always known that without competition there will be no incentive to improve but this seems to be forgotten every few generations. Probably not unintentionally. Humans are ruthless creatures. Absolutely ruthless. Collecting wealth is an abstraction of our worst tendencies but, also, probably the same tendencies that kept us alive 200 thousand years ago. We still harbor that animal inside of our nature.

[Lorry]

There isn't really much I detest but Amazon is one of them!
I bought a new kindle at the time of lockdown and they would only let me verify my identity by sending a code to a phone I no longer had. After weeks of trying to get a callback from a human, they called me at 4am and as I didn't answer it was marked as resolved!
After writing them a terrible review (with evidence( on every forum I could, they sent me a lmletter from their solicitors threatening me with defamation if I didn't take them down. ( I still havent)
Everything runs fine until you complain and then they just couldn't care less.
I still have an old kindle with books on it, but for the most part their terrible service has led me back to what few bookshops there are left.
They want it all and then some more and won't be happy until every high street and mall are just derelict relics of a bygone time.
We will live to regret Amazon, if we don't already.