(Natural News) Amazon is now in a perilous situation after spending billions to increase the size of its fulfillment network during the pandemic. It has been forced to either cancel or delay plans for 16 warehouses scheduled to be built this year. Four warehouses in Texas and two in Tennessee were among the 16 put on […]

(Natural News) As you may have heard, e-commerce giant Amazon has had to drastically scale back its warehouse square footage in recent months due to labor and energy cost increases. Why, then, is the company simultaneously gobbling up land all across the country in key markets? One of the company’s most recent purchases was 193 […]

(Natural News) On Oct. 6, Tuesday, a congressional panel challenged one of Amazon’s defenses against antitrust scrutiny of its retail dominance. The panel also discussed charges about how Amazon wrongfully uses its market power. Amazon dominates U.S. e-commerce In the report, the Democratic-led House Antitrust Subcommittee disputed Amazon’s assertions that its share of total U.S. retail shopping “is […]

(Natural News) Global e-commerce giant Amazon is once again under fire after sending out a media package containing a pre-edited news story and script for anchors to read on air. The package trumpeted Amazon’s efforts to allegedly keep its warehouse employees “safe” from the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) to several news stations in the United States. The media package, which […]

(Natural News) Tensions are now running high as several major grocery chains start to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths while the pandemic continues to rage across the United States. Among the establishments that have confirmed coronavirus-related casualties are a Trader Joe’s in Scarsdale, New York; a Giant store in Largo, Maryland; and a Chicago-area […]

(Natural News) Just one day after The Sun (United Kingdom) reported that at least six Amazon warehouses had gotten infected with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), newer reports added another five, bringing the current infected Amazon warehouse total to 11. One of the first known cases occurred at an Amazon facility in Queens, NY, during the […]

(Natural News) Despite being on the receiving end of praise from CEO Jeff Bezos, who called them “heroes fighting for their communities,” employees working at the warehouses of online retailer Amazon say their workplace is a living hell, as they are forced to complete orders even in the middle of a lockdown. In an interview […]

(Natural News) As Americans continue to live in uncertainty from the emerging Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, their anxiety levels are only likely to increase on news that the country’s biggest e-tailer is about to experience a large workforce shortage. Amazon and other e- and retailers like Walmart had already announced they were setting up to hire […]

(Natural News) Officials at e-tailer Amazon said over the weekend that customers should expect some delays as the company works diligently to fill a surge of orders likely tied to the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). The warning comes even as officials claimed they were preparing to hire as many as 100,000 new warehouse […]

(Natural News) U.K. online grocer Ocado used to take about two hours to put together an order of 50 items for a customer. A human worker would go around and collect the various meats, produce and dairy products the customer requested and put the order together manually. Now, however, they’ve found a way to get […]