Here is the road that has led me back to Amazon. I'm no longer a member of Amazon Mom, but I'm back to buying my kids' stuff from Amazon. Unfortunately.
I'd had every intent of staying true to my principals and avoiding Amazon for ever because of their dumb Amazon Mom program, but in the end, this is not about me, but about my kids, and anyway, other places weren't any better.
After leaving Amazon Mom and Amazon in general, I was ready to find an alternative. The thing that made most sense to me at first was buying directly from Earth's Best. The girl was drinking Earth's Best organic formula, and eating Earth's Best organic meals. This was an organic, progressive company, which meant no more "Dads? What dads?" approach to marketing. I was home...
Then I found this
featured prominently on their site:
Yep. The Earth's Best Parent section is called, "For Mom, From Mom."
So that was that, then.
I sent them a "Can you explain this logic" email, got a generic response, and moved on.
After looking around the Internet a little more and finding nothing, I realized that my last chance before caving in to Amazon was Diapers.com. I had a problem with that company in the past, mainly with the fact that every time I went to the site, I saw a giant banner telling me I could save 10% if only I were a first-time costumer. This got old after a while, so I moved to Amazon, but now it was time to move back.
I was even prepared to ignore the fact that Amazon was buying Diapers.com, and that I was only cheating myself... Until I saw this on Diapers.com:
And you know what? As if it weren't enough that Diapers.com was ignoring fathers, they were doing it with the most annoying spelling mistake in the English language.
So that was that for Diapers.com... And back to Amazon. Tail between my legs and all, a dad's got to do what a dad's got to do.