How to Break Free of Amazon During Quarantine and Beyond

Ethical alternatives are out there

Nithin Coca
OneZero
Published in
5 min readMay 12, 2020

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Amazon workers protest in Shakopee, Minnesota. Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr

Few companies are benefiting from Covid-19 as much as Amazon. Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man and Amazon is now larger than Walmart, so big that Elizabeth Warren, during her presidential campaign, argued for breaking up Amazon due to the fact that it now controls nearly 50% of all e-commerce sales

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Nithin Coca
OneZero

Global journalist covering politics, environment, human rights & the social impacts of tech for OneZero, Gizmodo, The Nation and more www.nithincoca.com/writer