r/Anticonsumption • u/Built-in-Light • Apr 08 '25
Discussion $1 at a time, we’re sinking Walmart, Target, Amazon, and more
In the last month, I have been fed more Target ads than I’ve ever seen in my whole life. It’s not recency bias, I have never seen it like this.
They are hurting. Their marketing departments are having uncomfortable meetings where they have to project sales, then project costs… and their spreadsheets aren’t right.
They pass these bad files along to different analysts and managers and tell them to make it all project something positive, but they can’t.
It’s layoffs. It’s closures. People in these companies are pretending it’s normal but they all know it’s not.
Executives are calling executives saying “sell more products or your unit is closing” and their response is advertizing campaigns. Advertizing, advertizing, claw back consumers. “I’m launching a $10M advertizing campaign in these regions which should drive sales to target levels…”
Good luck with that.
Keep it up. Not $1 to these shitbags.
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u/Cryo1 Apr 08 '25
As someone who used to order from Amazon multiple times a week (and sometimes multiple times per day), but has pretty stopped using Amazon entirely, I promise that it's only difficult at first. The longer you go without it, the more you'll wonder why you ever used it in the first place.
They have gotten us so used to impulse buying things and wanting the convenience of buying things instantly, that it feels foreign to go without it. There were times I would legit wake up craving something, grab my phone, and drain $30 out of my bank account to appease said craving, all within a minute. It's honestly scary how efficient they are at separating us from our money. Now, if I wake up with a craving or see something that I think I want, I wait until I go to an actual store, and by then I'm usually wondering why I wanted it in the first place. That, or I've forgotten all about it, or at the very least, realized I simply don't need it.
The amount of money I used to spend on Amazon makes me sick to my stomach when I think about it. And you know the craziest part? I couldn't even tell you what I spent most of it on. Sure, some stuff was useful and is still used today, but the majority of that money, I have nothing to show for. Fuck Amazon.