Amazon Prime

[Smithy]

Anyone got Amazon Prime there's a Prime Big Deals Dys 2025 right now.. not sure if it's just for England, UK or the rest of the world.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

We have it here in the US. I'll browse but not sure I'll buy anything.

 

[Smithy]

We have it here in the US. I'll browse but not sure I'll buy anything.

I like Amazon Prime deal days for buying wild bird food.
I can get certain wild bird food £5 cheaper.

 

[Bobby Cole]

Yup.
I ordered a pair of “walking” shoes yesterday. They were listed for $45, marked down to $22 and with a few points from the cash back thing I paid around $14.

To be honest, my wife follows the “Prime” days more than I do.
I mean, we have prime days, black Friday prime days, after Christmas Prime days, returned packages days, somebody’s Bah Mitzva prime days……..

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I have been browsing, too ! I am looking at the nut milk maker devices, but have not decided if I want to get one right now or not. I have been using the blender, which requires a lot of straining afterwards and leftover pulp, and it looks like the machines do a better job of actually blending it up.
I did find protein powder on sale at a good price, and Bobby uses that every day, so i ordered 3 cans of that .

 

[Axel Slingerland]

 

[Bobby Cole]

I wish I had invested a couple of grand in Amazon stocks when they were going for $50 a share in ‘97. Now they’re $225 a pop.
But, as the saying goes, “wish in one hand and…….well, everyone knows the rest.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I wish I had taken my Grandmother's advice and bought stock in plastic manufacturers. However, IF I had money to do so, I could invest in biodegradable hemp plastic. It has been around awhile but it hasn't had enough support to become accepted by the big petroleum plastic manufacturers, the way rechargeable batteries did, 130+ years after they were invented. Yet another example of big business shooting themselves in the foot. Rechargeable batteries were invented in 1859, and it wasn't until the 1990s that they became regular consumer products.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

It's funny what people think they know.

Perhaps they think car starters operate by magic? Not to mention how common rechargeable batteries were in the days before rural electrification.

In the 1970s we saw the rise in pocket calculators. All but the low-end products used NiCd batteries and chargers. Much as military and law enforcement "walkies" did as well as some consumer CB products.

And of course there were even "windcharger" products:

 

[MamaFrankie]

I hate Amazon and avoid it. I hate the way they treat their workforce.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I hate Amazon and avoid it. I hate the way they treat their workforce.

From what i have read, Amazon has one of the best employee benefit programs, even including paying for the person to go to college and increase their education. We seldom hear about any employees going on strike, or complaints, and it seems like they are happy with their jobs, so I am wondering what it is that you hate about people working for Amazon, @MamaFrankie ?

Here is a list of benefits, and they start from day one, not after 2-3 months, like most workplace benefits:
“Along with average hourly pay of over $23 for customer fulfillment and transportation, and pharmacy roles, Amazon offers a range of benefits that support employees and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. For many employees, the majority of these comprehensive benefits begin on day one and include health care coverage, paid parental leave, ways to save for the future, pre-paid college tuition, and other resources to improve health and well-being.”

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I wouldn't call Amazon beneficent, but I think its competitors spread a lot of cash around to tarnish its image whenever possible. I find Costco far more ugly. They sure wiped out a lot of stores when they opened here.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

There's two sides to every story. For the many good things you hear about them, there's also just as many bad things. Amazon is rated as a horrible employer in California. There are law offices that specialize in Amazon workplace injury cases. Something I find interesting though, is the similarities between Amazon and Walmart as companies. Remember when Walmart was the black sheep of the corporate big box retailers? They were also rated as a horrible employer all across the country. Yet if you went to any Walmart and asked random employees if they liked working for Walmart, almost always the answer was Yes. That bad reputation hasn't seemed to stop them from making huge profits either. So I don't think the hype matches reality.

But in Amazon's case, it's bad reputation is often tied to Jeff Bezos, one of the three richest and most powerful, yet poorest excuses for human beings in America. Many people personally don't like him, myself included, and as a result of that will only buy something from his company if they absolutely have to. But if you need something and can't get it anywhere else, what choice do you have? As an example, a lot of hospitals give out some Medline products. My son has very dry skin, and one of the things he needs is something that used to be called Phytoplex. If you want to buy it and you search for it online, Walmart and Amazon are the only sources I can find. But Walmart never has any. The only place I can get it is on Amazon.

Then of course, there's Reacher... It's an Amazon Prime original show and you can't get it anywhere else. So when a new season comes out, I wait until all episodes are available, then I sign up for a free month of Prime and watch them, and order a few tubes of Phytoplex, with free Prime shipping. (They have a hub in Bakersfield, which means I would be paying the same rates as always, even though they now only have to transport it 15 miles.) After I'm done binge watching Reacher (I can watch all available episodes in a few days time), I cancel Prime.

This is just my opinion, your mileage may very.

 

[Don Alaska]

If you don't want to work for Amazon, don't do so. No one is conscripting for Amazon. It does seem to bring a lot of jobs into some areas however.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

That was kind of my point. When I said "Yet if you went to any Walmart and asked random employees if they liked working for Walmart, almost always the answer was Yes.", I was kind of suggesting that you could most likely ask the same thing about people working for Amazon. Or just about any company, for that matter. I have been known to say "If you don't like your job, why did you take it, or why are you still working there?" I've never kept a job after I decided I didn't like it.

 

[Bobby Cole]

There's two sides to every story. For the many good things you hear about them, there's also just as many bad things. Amazon is rated as a horrible employer in California. There are law offices that specialize in Amazon workplace injury cases. Something I find interesting though, is the similarities between Amazon and Walmart as companies. Remember when Walmart was the black sheep of the corporate big box retailers? They were also rated as a horrible employer all across the country. Yet if you went to any Walmart and asked random employees if they liked working for Walmart, almost always the answer was Yes. That bad reputation hasn't seemed to stop them from making huge profits either. So I don't think the hype matches reality.

But in Amazon's case, it's bad reputation is often tied to Jeff Bezos, one of the three richest and most powerful, yet poorest excuses for human beings in America. Many people personally don't like him, myself included, and as a result of that will only buy something from his company if they absolutely have to. But if you need something and can't get it anywhere else, what choice do you have? As an example, a lot of hospitals give out some Medline products. My son has very dry skin, and one of the things he needs is something that used to be called Phytoplex. If you want to buy it and you search for it online, Walmart and Amazon are the only sources I can find. But Walmart never has any. The only place I can get it is on Amazon.

Then of course, there's Reacher... It's an Amazon Prime original show and you can't get it anywhere else. So when a new season comes out, I wait until all episodes are available, then I sign up for a free month of Prime and watch them, and order a few tubes of Phytoplex, with free Prime shipping. (They have a hub in Bakersfield, which means I would be paying the same rates as always, even though they now only have to transport it 15 miles.) After I'm done binge watching Reacher (I can watch all available episodes in a few days time), I cancel Prime.

This is just my opinion, your mileage may very.

Check out YouTube for all 3 seasons of Reacher And the remake of RoadHouse.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Can't get Reacher on YouTube here. Nothing but clips and trailers. There were a few episodes on there last year, but they got Cease and Desist letters from Amazon's legal beagles and Copyright Strikes and YouTube deleted them.

There's a ton of movies that are there, but if they're posted illegally, they won't last long... They disappear quickly for movies that the owner are watching for illegal copies. Once I saw an illegal one and in the frame right next to it was a legal one. You can easily tell the difference by the fake names on the illegal ones and the Rent or Buy or Free with Ads links on the legal ones.

 

[Don Alaska]

Check out YouTube for all 3 seasons of Reacher And the remake of RoadHouse.

The actor who plays Reacher went on a big anti-Trump rant a while ago, and he alienated many of the folks, including me, who watched the show. I liked the casting better than casting Tom Cruise as Reacher in the movie. Filling the role of a 6'4" kinds bad guy who was not particularly handsome with a 5'8"pretty boy from Hollywood didn't suit my taste. That ruined the franchise for me just as the casting of Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn as the lead roles in Clive Cussler's Sahara.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

The actor who plays Reacher went on a big anti-Trump rant a while ago, and he alienated many of the folks, including me, who watched the show.

If he had gone in the opposite direction, he might have lost viewers too. If they care about such things. I personally don't. I have better reasons than an actors opinion.

 

[Don Alaska]

If he had gone in the opposite direction, he might have lost viewers too. If they care about such things. I personally don't. I have better reasons than an actors opinion.

I think actors should be apolitical. That is the way it was for decades before the Democrat party switched to the other side and become the party of the wealthy instead of the working class. The Republicans now appear to be on the side of the working class and the Dems are supported by the ultra rich.