An indie bookstore owner on Amazon's price-checking campaign.

Lacy Simons, of Rockland's hello hello books (as quoted by Richard Russo in the NYT):

Amazon asks you to ignore that work, that heart, that dedication to the local community. They ask you to take advantage of my knowledge & my education (which I’m still paying for) and treat the space I rent, the heat & light I pay for, the insurance policies I need to be here, the sales tax I gather for the state, the gathering place I offer, the books and book culture I believe in so much in that I’ve wagered everything on it: they want you to think of it as a showroom for goods you can just get more cheaply through them.

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Jasmine Johnson, current employee and granddaughter of the founders of the nation’s oldest Black-owned bookstore, San Francisco and Oakland’s Marcus Books, launched thecampaign on Change.org after Amazon.com unveiled the “Price Check” mobile phone application this past weekend. The app asks users to scan products at their local businesses and then provides price comparisons from Amazon.com.