Gregory's Serverthere is no such thing as free shipping.
there is just amazon undercutting thousands of small businesses by creating that illusion
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@sidereal exactly! shipping requires human beings and fossil fuels and it takes time and systems and labor etc.  @seachanger Some day I'm going to start my really free shipping company where we move goods around by sailboat on no particular schedule and it'll be over for these capitalist losers i can ship gorgeous wild coho salmon that we've caught aboard our own fishing boat, smoked and preserved by a small independent business, but if i offer you free shipping, i make negative money! its the same for all the people out there selling stuff they've made or grown or harvested...  aaaand if you want me to ship our hand caught, wild coho to you or a loved one you can order here and i'll ship it USPS myself. i'm in full santa's workshop mode and delivering to post office by bike!  @stephanie i have shipped over seas but it's been a while and i forget the process... so many NYC fishmongers closed down after Hurricane Sandy (2012) haven't been able to find good everyday fish in downtown outside of Chinatown. the situation is dire for a g'damn island. same with butchers. we lost ours down in the East Village. have to go up to East Harlem now. supermarkets aren't substitutes for butchers nor fishmongers. i want peeps who buy directly from ranchers and fishers. NYC's real estate mafia is killing a lot of these food traditions.  @seachanger bookmarked! For years, I begged my mom to tell my grandma to stop gendering the Christmas gifts where the boys get smoked salmon and I (the only girl) get fruit or flowers. I want salmon too! It's not a proper holiday without it!  @seachanger Ooooh! This is so very tempting. Would you mind describing the texture of the smoked fish? @kristinHenry It is kind of in between a traditional canned salmon product and a more lightly preserved smoked salmon that would need to be refrigerated. So it's not like a lox product, more like canned tuna, except a lot more flavorful and firmer? Here are some customer photos/dishes which might help... https://schoolhousefish.com/fish-tails/2020/12/20/cooking-with-smoked-salmon-7-ways-to-make-it-yummy Idk, “free shipping” is up there with “the cloud” in terms of corporate myth making that obscures predatory practices, it requires a suspension of disbelief that just so happens to really benefit the individual customer  @seachanger alternately there's products with the cost of shipping already built in, but that's still not free @inherentlee yes! i price my regular season "fish club" frozen shipments this way, "free" shipping is included when folks group up and buy together, since that saves me on freight  @seachanger The ability to get stuff the next day, at my door, and not pay a premium for the privilege is a miracle. Deal with it. @DanaBlankenhorn if you put yourself at the center of your moral universe, your toot makes sense. my moral universe includes other people, such as small business owners, people who enjoy having a main street or commercial district of independent shops, workers who make and sell things, the united states postal service, and others, so i guess i see things differently |
@seachanger And also mandatory OT for USPS workers on Sunday when they're not even delivering government mail