How to Stop Giving Amazon Your Money

It can be hard to imagine your life without Amazon. The company offers everything from online shopping to grocery delivery to audiobooks to streaming video, all at the tips of your fingers and at cutthroat prices. It’s an especially convenient place to get almost everything you could ever need delivered to your door while you’re quarantined at home.

If you’re ready to stop giving Amazon your hard-earned cash, you’ve definitely got your work cut out for you, but it’s not impossible. Here’s everything you need to do to leave the company behind and never look back.

Unsubscribe from Amazon Prime

This one’s obvious. You won’t be using Amazon anymore, so there’s no need to pay $119 per year for free shipping, online streaming and all the other services that come with Prime.

Amazon actually makes it pretty easy to cancel your subscription, and click on the End Membership button. If you never took advantage of your Prime service you’ll even get a refund, though that will take a few days to process (if you’ve had and been using Prime for a while.

 

Stop using Amazon for online shopping

Amazon certainly makes online shopping easy, but if you’re fed up with the company you still have options. Walmart is one alternative, though it certainly comes with its own issues—many of the criticisms leveled against Amazon and the latter has been in the game far longer.

If you must shop at a big-box, your best bet is probably Target, which refuses to sell guns and ammo. The company also offers reasonable prices (often lower than Amazon) and free shipping if you use a Target RedCard, which should help you get over the sticker shock of leaving Amazon’s online store.