Recent news item about an alternative to Amazon?

March 2, 2021 1:00 PM

I seem to remember, about a month ago, a news item about someone setting up an alternative to Amazon... like an independent ecommerce site that offered many different products, but without touching the Amazon ecosystem at all. Anyone remember this piece?
posted by mark7570 to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

Olive plans to allow consumers to purchase from hundreds of apparel brands and receive a single weekly delivery. (As some who purchases, on average, much less than one piece of clothing a week, it doesn't appeal to me, but I appreciate the concept.)
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 1:06 PM on March 2, 2021 [1 favorite]

Here's a short article about InstaCart throwing their hat into the ring to become an alternative.

As an aside, here's an article by a mom who gave up amazon, and how you can do it as well.
posted by Bill Watches Movies Podcast at 1:34 PM on March 2, 2021

Was it about Shopify? (not a superstore like Amazon but a platform for letting sellers create their own stores, but it seems to be positioned as an Amazon alternative for sellers)
posted by trig at 1:51 PM on March 2, 2021

Bookshop.org?
posted by kevinbelt at 1:56 PM on March 2, 2021

Not Amazon? CBC story, because 🇨🇦
posted by scruss at 2:02 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]

I was thinking Walmart+, which is Walmart's answer to Amazon Prime.
posted by kschang at 3:31 PM on March 2, 2021

Cancel Prime maybe? Or if not, they may link to the site you are thinking of. Here's a link directly to their list of alternatives.
posted by solotoro at 5:56 PM on March 2, 2021 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks, everyone!
posted by mark7570 at 7:09 AM on March 3, 2021