[ArrayList]

> Walmart offers free 2-day shipping on most goods I would typically order from Amazon,

Yeah because WalMart is just a bastion of ethics. Why not support local businesses? I guess you have to ask what you goal is in quitting Amazon - if it's "sticking it to the man", buying stuff from WalMart is probably even worse, ethically.

[jimmy1]

If you pull out a big enough "ethics" magnifying glass, you will find ethical flaws in every corporation. One can make the argument, depending on where on the "woke sliding scale" you may lie, that shopping at Walmart is better for the environment than Amazon: they already have a streamlined, efficient supply chain and logistics operation. Amazon relies on a myriad of logistical networks, with many inefficiencies still yet to be solved. But again, not the reason I am shopping/not shopping there.

It has nothing to do with sticking it to anyone. Amazon doesn't have the same value proposition as it once did. I realized I was using it just to use it, among other reasons.

[ams6110]

Walmart is a local business in most places.

[jhall1468]

If by local you mean funnel their money back to corporate headquarters, while simultaneously driving up social welfare costs through shit wages and even more shit healthcare benefits, then yes, it's a local business.

But that's not what anyone means by local.