e-commerce
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Amazon’s Experiment In Getting Rid Of Cashiers Said To Expand To Larger Test Stores
E-commerce titan Amazon — not exactly known as a place that appreciates having to deal with human employees, and that in fact would seem to rather replace many of them with nightmarish robotic jellyfish — is reportedly expanding its tests of cashier-less stores to include larger retail environments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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PayPal: What If We Banned Both Sides?
Payment processing giant PayPal terminated accounts belonging to the far-right Proud Boys organisation and its founder, Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, this week in what seemed to be a response to their involvement in a street brawl in New York and well-documented history of violence elsewhere. But it also banned a number of anti-fascist groups…
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Behold This Disastrously Bad Op-Ed Calling For Amazon To Replace Libraries
For those who have remained blissfully off of Twitter, a site that remains uncomfortably popular with sociopaths and morons like me, the “ratio” is when a tweet is so bad that the number of retweets and favourites it accrues becomes greatly outnumbered by hostile replies. It is one of the few beautiful things about the…
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eBay Is Finally Breaking It Off With PayPal, Which Is Doing Just Great By The Way
PayPal and eBay, two brands that were best friends forever for like 15 years or so, are destined to be platonic besties no longer.