You’ve been trying to get around Amazon – but it’s not that easy

Photo: Amazon Supply Chain Services announced on May 4, 2026, that it’s opening up its shipping and logistics services to all companies, a sign of its growing reach. Photo courtesy of Amazon. Article by Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui and Patrick van Esch. The Conversation – May 25, 2026.

You did the right thing this morning. Instead of the one-click default to your laptop’s last opened tab, you opened Etsy and bought a ceramic mug from a maker you’d been following on Instagram. Yesterday, your sister’s birthday gift came from a Shopify store run by a kitchenware designer in Sacramento, California. You felt something when you clicked “buy,” a small, warm, fuzzy feeling. Not Amazon. Not a giant. Someone real. The package will arrive on time, in unmarked brown cardboard, in two days. It will arrive that way because Amazon delivered it. […]

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