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How good are Amazon online shopping alternatives in your part of Europe? Have they improved since the beginning of the year?
10 months ago by WFH to c/madeineurope
notsosure 4 points 10 months ago
If I need to buy anything online (which I try to circumvent) I use mostly Kaufland or Otto (both German). For the products that interest me, they sell everything that Amazon also offers, and in many cases cheaper and faster. These companies are also owned by billionaires, but at least they are German. If possible, I try to find out the online shop of the manufacturer directly.
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A community dedicated to talking about, discovering, flaunting and discussing consumer products that are made in Europe by European companies.
Definitions:
- Consumer Products: anything that you and I, as regular people, can buy. We all love Gripen fighter jets, but they don't belong here.
- Made in Europe: Manufactured and readily available in the European Union, Ukraine, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, UK etc. The more local, niche, artisanal, environmentally friendly or socially responsible, the better.
- European companies: Independant companies or companies mostly or fully owned by other European companies.
Rules:
- Don't be a cunt. We do not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia or any other kind of discrimination. Authoritarian and autocratic regimes apologists won't be tolerated either.
- Only post about consumer products. Our sister communities are overrun with posts about EU economic and trade policies, defense spending or industry trends. Any post like that will be deleted.
- Exceptions can be made to promote tech companies who can't (yet) build their products in Europe yet are fully European and privacy respecting (examples include FairPhone, Jolla, Polar etc.)
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madeineurope
@lemmy.zip
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A community dedicated to talking about, discovering, flaunting and discussing consumer products that are made in Europe by European companies.
Definitions:
- Consumer Products: anything that you and I, as regular people, can buy. We all love Gripen fighter jets, but they don't belong here.
- Made in Europe: Manufactured and readily available in the European Union, Ukraine, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, UK etc. The more local, niche, artisanal, environmentally friendly or socially responsible, the better.
- European companies: Independant companies or companies mostly or fully owned by other European companies.
Rules:
- Don't be a cunt. We do not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia or any other kind of discrimination. Authoritarian and autocratic regimes apologists won't be tolerated either.
- Only post about consumer products. Our sister communities are overrun with posts about EU economic and trade policies, defense spending or industry trends. Any post like that will be deleted.
- Exceptions can be made to promote tech companies who can't (yet) build their products in Europe yet are fully European and privacy respecting (examples include FairPhone, Jolla, Polar etc.)
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In the Netherlands Amazon struggles to oust the locally established brands Bol.com and Cool Blue.
Both webshops are still going strong and Amazon has not found a strategy that can tackle them so far.
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