'Economic blackout' boycott will target Amazon, Twitch and Whole Foods [View all]
Source: The Independent
Thursday 06 March 2025 15:28 GMT
Amazon faces a week-long “economic blackout” with consumers urged to boycott the retail giant and some of its biggest subsidiaries.
Advocacy group The People’s Union USA is calling on Americans to abstain from making purchases from Amazon’s main site as well as the other companies it owns including Amazon Alexa, IMDb, Prime Video, Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods and Zappos.
John Schwarz, 57, the leader of the protest, told his 370,000 Instagram followers that the boycott would begin on Friday and run until March 14. The dad-of-three from Chicago, told CNET Wednesday that the objective of the “calculated strike” is simple: for Amazon to record a dip in sales.
In a post on Tuesday, Schwarz described how to “hit” Amazon the hardest and take a stand against its impact on small businesses and treatment of workers after the company reported a 10 percent year-on-year increase in net sales in Q4 2024 to almost $188 billion last month.
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Link to People's Union USA - https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/
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