Boycotting is Hard; Let's go Shopping!

[bcholmes]

Urgh. Amazon. What's a Canadian to do? Chapters-Indigo is icky. American sources like Powells.com end up being more expensive 'cause of shipping. I suppose we still have Glad Day, A Different Booklist and the Toronto Women's Bookstore. But I've gotten so accustomed to easy online shopping.

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[the_axel]

One, quite believable theory about what happened here.

In the comments to the post that got me there, was another suggestion and question:

While that theory is fairly plausible, I was thinking about all this last night at work while working on a MySQL database, and it occurred to me that all it would take was something like Bob the Data Entry Monkey writing an overly broad command string like "drop table where CATEGORY='homo*';" while trying to remove homogenized milk from Amazon Grocery in the middle of the night on Saturday, and all of a sudden the entirety of Amazon's immense product database has to be restored from Friday's backups. Never attribute to malice what can easily be attributed to stupidity.