Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Is There a Way Out?
I don'think there's an easy way out. We're so implicatedn it, in every part of it. I think that a lot of room for sumers to be better informed and to figure out how we can forge some kind of collective consumer identity and voice. That's what the no, amazon will do. They'll say, we care. We only want to provide the best service, am, and, um, the best value to them. But, you know, because amazons everywhere doing everything, you're talking about hundreds of millions of people. It's a tall order,. And it's in a context where there isn't superactive consumer politics
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