• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Done. I’ve been boycotting REI since… 2019, I think? When all this crap first came to light, or at least when I became aware of it. When their ex-Amazon management was trumpeting how their membership numbers were such a metric of success, I also managed to cancel my “lifetime” REI membership. This made their customer support people very confused. So confused that they actually gave my membership fee back, despite the fact that I’d paid for it like 15 years beforehand.

    I had an REI credit card. I cancelled that, too.

    I stood up for REI for a long time. I held my nose and bought my camping and climbing stuff from them for ages despite the fact that they were and are consistently the most expensive place on Earth to buy outdoors stuff. Because they were supposed to be a “co-op” they were “not corporate.”

    Yeah, so, about that.

    Fuck 'em. If you’re going to be dealing with corporate asshats anyway you may as well shop at the ones that have the decency to be cheaper.

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      1 month ago

      I went into one with my uncle a couple months ago cause he needed a balaclava, just the one.

      I think he ended up spending almost $30 on a piece of spandex cloth, then almost bought a $90 pair of hiking pants.