retailers
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Amazon Could Run Out of U.S. Warehouse Workers to Wear Down by 2024
Amazon, the company notorious for its awful labour practices, is grinding through its potential workforce too fast, according to an internal company research memo leaked to and first reported on by Vox. “If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labour supply in the US network by 2024,” said the document, according…
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Walmart Is Adding More Drones and Robots to Its Workforce
Walmart announced today in a press release that they are expanding their drone delivery fleet to bring customers their orders. The retailer is also looking to rollout more warehouse robots.
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Amazon Partners With Baseball’s Worst Cheaters to Make Buying Ballpark Snacks Feel Like Shoplifting
Amazon’s bringing its Just Walk Out cashier-free payment system to parts of the Houston Astros stadium. When the service launches this year, Minute Maid Park’s (formerly Enron Field) 41,000-capacity stadium will stand out as one of the biggest testing grounds yet for Amazon’s quickly growing payment service. It will also give the Astros a glitzy,…
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The FTC Is Probing How Amazon Allegedly Tricks People Into Signing Up for Prime
Someone at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has had it with free trials that turn out not to be so free months later. The federal agency thought that the online signup for Amazon Prime was so shady it conducted an official inquiry into it.