Amazon is expanding its online grocery service in a major offensive aimed at winning more customers in the fiercely competitive U.K. grocery market. The technology giant, which releases its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, is to increase capacity into more homes and offer free delivery to Prime members from Tuesday, in …
Read More »Amazon workers hold Juneteenth vigils demanding Jeff Bezos reflect on company’s treatment of ‘unskilled workforce’
Amazon AMZN, +0.79% CEO Jeff Bezos says Juneteenth should be a moment for reflection about the ways we can eradicate systemic racism and create a more just country. But some Amazon workers are holding Juneteenth vigils where they say they want to draw a link between “slavery, racism and Amazon’s …
Read More »Earnings Watch: Apple, Amazon and Gilead take anchor leg of earnings race with a big lead
In the busiest earnings week of the season, Thursday is the biggest act. Two trillion-dollar companies — Apple Inc. AAPL, +3.28% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +2.53% — will follow the successes of rivals Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +8.73% GOOGL, +8.89% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +4.48% and look to prove that the …
Read More »The Wall Street Journal: Amazon took data from its own sellers to develop competing products
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.92% employees have used data about independent sellers on the company’s platform to develop competing products, a practice at odds with the company’s stated policies. The online retailing giant has long asserted, including to Congress, that when it makes and sells its own products, it doesn’t use …
Read More »The New York Post: Amazon fires organizer of strike at Staten Island warehouse
Amazon has fired the worker at its Staten Island warehouse who organized a walkout on Monday to demand greater protections from the company amid the coronavirus outbreak. Chris Smalls, 31, a management assistant at the facility, told The Post he was canned in a phone call following Monday afternoon’s strike. …
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