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Amazon Wish List Games
2024 · TV series · 1 season
Audience members try to win items from their dream wish lists totaling up to $25,000. In each episode, 3 contestants play a signature game: Wish Splash, Ordering Gifts, Tower of Treasures, Go for the Gold or Delivery Day. Then everyone gets a chance to win in Wish Came First–will they all walk away winners?
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Perhaps this is just slightly oversimplified
Amazon goes to great lengths to make purchasing exceedingly easy and fast. And with Prime, customers can buy a single, low-priced item with no shipping costs, cf. the Costco requirement to buy in bulk quantities. As one would expect, this convenience and facilitation leads to more purchases. It also results in more packaging, more waste, more emissions, etc.
This was detailed in a 2024 Netflix documentary that interviewed a former Amazon VP who was fired for her environmental activism
https://www.netflix.com/title/81554996
She disclosed, brace yourself, that Amazon encourages people to buy stuff they do not need
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/former-amazon-employee-buying-hack-34081322
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/amazon-settles-with-employees-who-said-they-were-fired-over-activism.html
Unlike Costco, Amazon does not disclose data on its environmental impact, e.g., carbon emissions. It's possible Amazon's impact is less than Costco's, Costco's data shows its impact is relatively severe, but if that were true, then why not share the data
Is driving to a warehouse, retrieving items in bulk, paying for them and driving the items home, i.e., offline shopping, as easy as placing an order on Amazon
Of course some HN reply will say "yes", implying that the former Amazon VP's story is false
Let the reader decide who to beileve