{"id":569915,"date":"2021-06-21T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569915"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:52:07","slug":"nyc-mayor-rips-amazon-prime-day-perfect-day-not-to-shop-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-rips-amazon-prime-day-perfect-day-not-to-shop-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Rips Amazon Prime Day: \u2018Perfect Day Not To Shop Amazon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-rips-amazon-prime-day-perfect-day-not-to-shop-amazon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1157884540.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday blasted Amazon Prime Day, calling it the \u201cperfect day not to shop Amazon\u201d and encouraging New Yorkers to shop locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the day when Amazon tries to outgun every small business, every local retailer everywhere, and continue to dominate,\u201d De Blasio said at his daily press briefing. \u201cI\u2019m saying something simple today. Today\u2019s Prime Day, it\u2019s a perfect day not to shop Amazon. It\u2019s a perfect day to keep it local, to buy from your neighborhood stores. It\u2019s a perfect day to shop your city, keep the money in our city, support our small businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.402730375427\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PRIME DAY: In his daily press briefing, Mayor Bill de Blasio called today a &#8220;perfect day not to shop on Amazon,&#8221; and to buy from neighborhood stores in order to &#8220;keep the money in our city&#8221; and &#8220;show solidarity with Amazon workers.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BN37T3MWnn\">pic.twitter.com\/BN37T3MWnn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1406982764570759169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mayor said Tuesday is also the \u201cperfect day to show solidarity with Amazon workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Amazon has gotten richer and richer, their workers have not,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio noted that Amazon has warehouses on Staten Island and is the borough\u2019s largest private employer, adding, \u201cWe appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we don\u2019t appreciate is repeated efforts by Amazon to stop unionization by the workers,\u201d the mayor continued.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio made sure to include a pun in his attack on Amazon, offering his definition of a true \u201cprime shopper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, a real prime shopper keeps it local, keeps the money in our neighborhoods, helps working people directly, doesn\u2019t put the money in the pockets of Amazon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>New York City is still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, which hit the city hard in March and April of last year. The city is still down more than 500,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate is about twice the national average.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recovery for all of us has to include our small businesses. A recovery for all of us means keeping it local, keeping money in our communities, community jobs, mom and pop stores, family businesses that have been around for generations, the backbone of our city, the heart and soul of our neighborhoods,\u201d de Blasio said.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, the mayor announced a new program, \u201cNYC Business Quick Start,\u201d which de Blasio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/nyc-mayor-says-amazon-prime-day-is-perfect-day-not-to-shop-amazon\/article_638b7d0a-82fb-5103-b281-2106f69aaf22.html?block_id=994141\">said<\/a> is intended to \u201cmake New York City the easiest place in America to start a business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve created a small business concierge. Literally, you want to open a business? You call the city of New York, you get a specific person, a facilitator, someone who\u2019s going to be with you the whole way through to cut the red-tape to make it simple, to get you answers and to get the doors of your business open,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be funded with $11 million and will be a collaboration between 100 city workers from a group of city agencies. It has a guaranteed 48-hour response time to all small business inquiries, which is meant to cut the processing time by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic mayoral primary to elect de Blasio\u2019s successor will be held Tuesday. Voters will head to the polls for the general election on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a former NYPD captain, currently leads the race over Andrew Yang and several other candidates.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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