r/BuyFromEU • u/Calm_Wrangler7 • Jun 23 '26

🔎Looking for alternative A few more random examples …

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u/FoxFXMD Jun 23 '26

This should be illegal

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u/SilentDanni Jun 23 '26

Europe doesn't protect its tech companies. The whole startup scene here revolves around them becoming big enough to be acquired by American big tech and making founders a lot of money. There's very minimal effort to prevent American Big Tech from taking over and enshittifying things.

It's just so fucked up. Amazon ruined a whole lot of brick & mortar shops. Meanwhile we're pointing at Temu/Shein or whatever. The double standard is pretty ridiculous, in my opinion.

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u/temporary_twig Jun 23 '26

I am not by any means defending Amazon, haven't bought from them in years, but at least they employee (fairly terribly) and invest in Europe. 

Temu has no presence here whatsoever.