Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
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Friendica:
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Matrix:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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A store you can quickly get in and out of with a variety of everyday items at a reasonable price that seems to pay its employees well. What's not too love?
Also, several in my area have implemented self checkouts that don't bitch you out for every single item. I can scan everything from my cart and bag it up later at a counter or my car if the weather's nice.
Also lets cashiers sit down.
Boomers are actively finding a way to be offended by that as we speak. "Back in my day, we stood on iron floor pads in slip persistent shoes for 12 hours a day and offered service with a smile!"
Iโm a (spanish) boomer. I reported one of my bosses to my company health & safety comission because the bastard physically removed our chairs (I was a bank teller at that time). He was reprimanded, the chairs were put back in their places and the guy hated me deeply for the months we had to work together.
I was (still am) member of an union, btw. And that made a difference.
Unions are absolutely necessary.
Oppressors.
This is a class war, not a generational one. Don't let the king convince the torch wielders that their enemy is the pitchfork wielders.
Fair. I'm certain there are gen x and millennials that expect "servants" to suffer as well.
Anyone who's rich enough, basically...
I'm pretty close to being a boomer, my in-laws are. Nobody I know has a problem with that. Careful with your ageism.
My in-laws are more progressive than most and are deep boomers, I realize it's not all of them. There's enough of them that they do seem to standout as a general rule that want to perpetuate generational suffering. Granted, most of the worst offenders are gen x and millennial with the "grind set" mindset.
Stop with this shit
Sorry, I just got done reading a bunch of stupid Google reviews with old people shitting on our local Chinese food restaurant for offenses like not being welcoming, not smiling, and serving the wrong kinds of food. It's annoying that there's a generation of people who expect servants when they exchange money for a service.
They already were offended by it fifteen years ago when I worked retail. Sitting on the clock looks "lazy", according to my first boss.
And why they're the only one I'll never know. All idling jobs should have a fucking seat, there's no good reason for cashiers to be forced to stand
Back in the day when I worked at an American grocery chain they had a rule that you were not allowed to drink water where customers could see. Literally the only person who ever cared was the franchise owner. I'm sorry, I've been scanning and bagging hundreds of products for the last 3 hours during a holiday rush, I might need to wet my mouth between customers from time to time.
I wish more of mine had the self-checkouts. The ones that don't, it's a minimum 10 minute wait in line to check out. Never more than one cashier during the hours I go.
Then speak to someone about it.
When they initially put in the self checkouts the delay for scanning was set to similar to a manned checkout, and as someone who spent my formative years cashiering at a grocery store, I greatly appreciated being able to quickly scan through my stuff. They upped the delay between scans after a few weeks, so now its like 10 seconds before you can scan another of the same item, so I've just gotten creative in alternating items to scan faster
Rumor has it theyโre pulling all of the self checkouts out due to theft.
All of the ones near/by me have had them removed and regular registers put back in.