Protest Against Amazon to Take Place Outside King Power Stadium

[Wymsey]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/amazon-protest-planned-outside-leicester-5426954

[An Away Move]

Solidarity to them. Amazon take the piss in terms of giving a fair share of taxation and working conditions. They also destroy High Streets as retailers who do pay tax and rates can't compete on prices.

[ThurmastonFox]

Interesting that they are choosing our ground when there is no affiliation or association with Amazon?

[rico]

Was down the ground around 12.30,didnt see any protests ...?

[ThurmastonFox]

Just now, rico said:

Was down the ground around 12.30,didnt see any protests ...?

On Sunday

[rico]

2 minutes ago, ThurmastonFox said:

On Sunday

The protest is planned for 11am on Wednesday, May 19.

 

From that article....

[ThurmastonFox]

Whoops

[dynamark]

What did amazon do to upset the folk of leicester other than deliver cheap stuff to your house when you were not allowed to go to the stores.Its the internet and Im on it right now

[gerblod]

5 hours ago, dynamark said:

What did amazon do to upset the folk of leicester other than deliver cheap stuff to your house when you were not allowed to go to the stores.Its the internet and Im on it right now

First of all - it's never cheap. If it is cheap then there's something wrong with it.

Secondly - it's destroying jobs in the high street - every high street that is - and manufacturing in this country. That has implications that extend to the standard of living that extend far into the future.

Third - its profits go back to America

Fourth - they pay f-all in tax.

Fifth - working conditions and salaries at Amazon are kept to a bare minimum.

Sixth - Amazon encourages, by its trading practices, monopolisation of goods supplied from China - i.e. it suppresses industry in the rest of the world and makes Chinese billionaires ever more rich and China more powerful.

Seventh - once all the high street stores are really closed, for good, then where do you go to for a choice?

Eighth - duff, misleading reviews.

Ninth - I'd rather be able to go into a shop and see what I'm buying - especially clothes and shoes.

Tenth - Jeff Bezos - philandering jerk.

[TrentFox]

7 hours ago, rico said:

The protest is planned for 11am on Wednesday, May 19.

 

From that article....

I’ll be there ....... somewhere between 8.30am - 12.30pm. 

[Chrysalis]

9 hours ago, gerblod said:

First of all - it's never cheap. If it is cheap then there's something wrong with it.

Secondly - it's destroying jobs in the high street - every high street that is - and manufacturing in this country. That has implications that extend to the standard of living that extend far into the future.

Third - its profits go back to America

Fourth - they pay f-all in tax.

Fifth - working conditions and salaries at Amazon are kept to a bare minimum.

Sixth - Amazon encourages, by its trading practices, monopolisation of goods supplied from China - i.e. it suppresses industry in the rest of the world and makes Chinese billionaires ever more rich and China more powerful.

Seventh - once all the high street stores are really closed, for good, then where do you go to for a choice?

Eighth - duff, misleading reviews.

Ninth - I'd rather be able to go into a shop and see what I'm buying - especially clothes and shoes.

Tenth - Jeff Bezos - philandering jerk.

 

Realistically UK stores wouldnt compete even with amazon paying proper tax, as brick and mortar is by nature more expensive and amazon now have economy of scale in their buying power.

 

But yeah, amazon is flooded with Chinese goods, electrical ones which are often dangerous, the tax situation is a joke, and they are becoming too dominant.

[NasPb]

Amazon are some of the biggest exploiters of workers in the world and they're too cowardly to pay tax. Wish they'd dissappear.