Mike DeSanto: No smiles for Amazon

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Mike DeSanto, a co-owner of Phoenix Books and a member of the Main Street Alliance of Vermont Advisory Council.
Some of you may be familiar with Amazon’s “Smile” program. It allows customers to designate a charity from a list of choices that will receive one half of 1 percent of purchases as a donation. All smiles, right?
Not quite.
As a business owner, let me offer another perspective. Renee Reiner and I, along with a couple of partne