Does anyone have any good alternatives to Walmart, Amazon, or Target? I’m looking for a general store that sells household products and preferably isn’t owned by a billionaire or a company that adds to our surveillance state… So does anyone have any online, or physical, alternatives?

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      Ughughu: Sponsored listings (marked “Sponsored”). These are pay-per-click ads — the seller pays Amazon roughly $0.75–$1.50 per click, whether or not you buy anything. So every click on a sponsored product puts money in Amazon’s pocket directly from the seller’s ad budget. This is a big business: Amazon’s advertising segment generates tens of billions of dollars a year, precisely because sellers pay for clicks even when shoppers don’t convert.