Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people
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#2A good rule of thumb for shopping an Amazon - avoid anything that you can ingest, apply on your skin, and anything electrical.
These are better to buy in a brick and mortar store where a human verifies that the product has indeed come from supplier who is verified in some way. Of course this doesn't make brick and mortar products automatically safe, but they are far better than Amazon where quality control is offloaded onto the customers.
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#4A good rule of thumb for shopping an Amazon - avoid anything that you can ingest, apply on your skin, and anything electrical. These are better to buy in a brick and mortar store where a human verifies that the product has indeed come from supplier who is verified in some way. Of course this doesn't make brick and mortar products automatically safe, but they are far better than Amazon where quality control is offload…
I used to say those same rules for Dollar Tree.
I'm not that strict about Amazon, but I decided that I don't trust buying OTC pharmaceuticals from Amazon. Even though I hate dealing with the current vendor, since they're bizarrely incompetent a dozen different ways, I suspect they are at least much better about supply chain integrity.
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#6Could this somehow turn into criminal case against actual people in charge at Amazon?
Re: Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people
#7A good rule of thumb for shopping an Amazon - avoid anything that you can ingest, apply on your skin, and anything electrical. These are better to buy in a brick and mortar store where a human verifies that the product has indeed come from supplier who is verified in some way. Of course this doesn't make brick and mortar products automatically safe, but they are far better than Amazon where quality control is offload…
This is a good rule of thumb. I'd even go further and say use Amazon as a last resort merchandiser maybe except for few areas like comixology. I remember seeing threads here about how Amazon mixes SKUs of different origins so it feels like they're complicit with the fraudulent sellers.
Re: Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people
#8A good rule of thumb for shopping an Amazon - avoid anything that you can ingest, apply on your skin, and anything electrical. These are better to buy in a brick and mortar store where a human verifies that the product has indeed come from supplier who is verified in some way. Of course this doesn't make brick and mortar products automatically safe, but they are far better than Amazon where quality control is offload…
I used to say those same rules for Dollar Tree. I'm not that strict about Amazon, but I decided that I don't trust buying OTC pharmaceuticals from Amazon. Even though I hate dealing with the current vendor, since they're bizarrely incompetent a dozen different ways, I suspect they are at least much better about supply chain integrity.
May I ask which vendor you use for pharmaceutical needs now? I used to use Amazon Pharmacy but then have since gone back to CVS.
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#9Incredible they tried on the "we're just a logistics company not responsible for products" when they control so much of the sale, purchasing and stocking process.
Re: Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people
#10Amazon used to be somewhat trustworthy, but now I trust my local thrift store more. The last time I bought something from Amazon was around 1.5 years ago. There are even stores that have a business model of selling Amazon’s returned products!