Anons, over the past 4 yrs I’ve been trying to get spouse to quit WM and Amazon. A few months ago, spouse did, willingly. I posted about that here but didn’t go into the details of how I did it. I will now in the hopes you can adopt some ideas. There are two key points.. to not cut out everything at once, and to make them think it was their idea.
I accomplished this by watching what spouse bought. As the item got halfway gone (toothpaste for example), I’d make a batch of my own and leave it in the bathroom and make it a point to use it at the same time.. but not asking spouse to try it. Spouse eventually did, and over time switched over as they also realized the dangers of fluoride were true. The WM bought toothpaste ran out and spouse never reordered. I did this with all products; shampoo, etc. Same with packaged food. I’d make a copycat item.. get spouse to try it, adopt it, and then get to the point of not re-ordering it automatically.
The Walmart and Amazon purchases lessened to the point where it didn’t make sense to even put in an order which brings me to a few months ago, when spouse decided to cancel on their own terms! Spouse became comfortable with the fact that when we use something up, we have the ingredients to make more.
Hope this works for those wishing to reduce their dependence on the lure of the big-box stores and prepackaged junk.