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[Husky_Khan]

After founding Amazon twenty seven years ago, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of one of the pillars of Big Tech and the premier e-commerce website on the internet.

Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the e-commerce empire he founded 27 years ago, he said in a letter to employees. The world’s second richest man on Tuesday said Andy …

nypost.com

While Jeff Bezos will remained involved in the running of the company, he apparently wants to focus on new initiatives including potential new acquisitions for the Amazon company. Amazon currently commands over a third of all online sales in the United States and grew even more massive at the start of this pandemic to the point it is now at a 1.6 trillion dollar market valuation. Other initiatives that Jeff Bezos is still in control of include Blue Origin, his spaceflight company, the Washington Post, and various charities such as the Bezos Earth Fund and Day 1 Fund.

 

[Cherico]

After founding Amazon twenty seven years ago, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of one of the pillars of Big Tech and the premier e-commerce website on the internet.

Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the e-commerce empire he founded 27 years ago, he said in a letter to employees. The world’s second richest man on Tuesday said Andy …

nypost.com

While Jeff Bezos will remained involved in the running of the company, he apparently wants to focus on new initiatives including potential new acquisitions for the Amazon company. Amazon currently commands over a third of all online sales in the United States and grew even more massive at the start of this pandemic to the point it is now at a 1.6 trillion dollar market valuation. Other initiatives that Jeff Bezos is still in control of include Blue Origin, his spaceflight company, the Washington Post, and various charities such as the Bezos Earth Fund and Day 1 Fund.

this is not a good thing, Bezos dispite his issues was firmly a guy who put making money first I worry we might get an idelogue who wants the company to go completely woke if he steps down.

 

[ParadiseLost]

this is not a good thing, Bezos dispite his issues was firmly a guy who put making money first I worry we might get an idelogue who wants the company to go completely woke if he steps down.

Are you kidding?

Part of Bezos's problem is that he has a bad habit of surrounding himself with people like him and believing that the same approach works everywhere. That's part of the problem for example that Amazon Games has had... Bezos put one of his Yes Men in there and look where that's got them, 4 huge games all of which were cancelled mid development, and their upcoming release had to be rebuilt midway in.

If Bezos is stepping down, the only person he's putting in his place is someone who thinks exactly like him.

Amazon is terrible anyway though, they are no longer cost competitive in a lot of areas.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Amazon settles claims it pocketed delivery drivers' tips

The e-commerce giant will pay $61.7m after an investigation by US regulators.

www.bbc.com

Amazon settled a lawsuit with the US Federal Trade Commission to the tune of 62 million dollars over Amazon shorting its drivers of tips. Amazon promised it's drivers, whom it hires through an Uber-esque program called 'Amazon Flex' promised that drivers could keep 100% of tips but it was then alleged that Amazon cut the pay of their drivers hourly rate from the promised rate so that tips would make up the difference. This practice continued from 2016 until August of 2019 when it was revealed by investigation Amazon was pocketing upwards of even a third of the tips despite statements made by the company to the contrary.

It is intended for the settlement money to go to the affected drivers.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Labor board denies Amazon request to delay Alabama union vote

Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Alabama will proceed with a vote to unionize next week after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Friday denied Amazon’s request to delay the union…

thehill.com

Amazon was unable to pressure the National Relations Labor Board from delaying a union vote amongst its Warehouse workers at its fulfillment center located in Bessemer, Alabama. Among the issues brought up by Amazon was the desire for 'in person' voting instead of balloting by mail among other disputes.

Amazon opened its heavily automated fulfillment center in Alabama in 2020 at the cost of 320 million dollars. It employs over six thousand workers and if the Union vote passes, it would be the first Amazon location to be Unionized.

Alabama distribution corridor shifts to high gear with Amazon in Bessemer - Alabama News Center

Less than a year after opening, the facility boosts the entire region.

www.alabamanewscenter.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

Currently trending on social media, including, as of this post, 23,000 tweets with the hashtag #BoycottAmazon, this current movement is being done on behalf of the efforts of Alabama Amazon workers to unionize though the Union itself has disavowed the social media motivated boycott.

Union in Amazon effort disavows social-media boycott call

Third party pitched boycott as show of solidarity with workers

www.al.com

The idea is to boycott Amazon for one week via no purchases, no watching Amazon Prime and unplugging their smart home devices like Alexa to make your voices heard.

Sadly it doesn't include looting Whole Foods grocery stores in a mostly peaceful manner nor cancelling the Washington Post.

A simple guide to avoid crossing the virtual picket line has been posted here:

Don't Cross this Virtual Picket Line

Simple weeklong Boycott of Amazon starts Sunday March 7th

ucommblog.com

Solidarity!

 

[ParadiseLost]

I mean, hey, I can totally get behind unions giving Amazon trouble.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Apparently pleased with its limited rollout in Seattle, Amazon will be rolling out its on-demand healthcare service nationwide starting with select cities and corporate partners starting this summer.

Amazon touted the speed of access to care made possible for its employees and their families via the remote, chat and video-based features of Amazon Care. These are facilitated via a dedicated Amazon Care app, which provides direct, live chats via a nurse or doctor. Issues that then require in-person care are then handled via a house call, so a medical professional is actually sent to your home to take care of things like administering blood tests or doing a chest exam, and prescriptions are delivered to your door as well.

These housecalls and their ETA's and the like can be tracked like one would track your Amazon package. Many generations ago, housecalls were a standard of the medical industry... of course this was back well before health insurance and the like was anything close to a widespread thing.

Amazon will expand its Amazon Care on-demand healthcare offering US-wide this summer | TechCrunch

Amazon is apparently pleased with how its Amazon Care pilot in Seattle has gone, since it announced this morning that it will be expanding the offering

techcrunch.com

 

[prinCZess]

Amazon is terrible anyway though, they are no longer cost competitive in a lot of areas.

I have noticed this actually, most prominently with their whole original schtick of book-sales, ironically enough.
Probably attributable to Amazon's mob-style percentage-take of sales gradually expanding over the years and driving shops first to charging most of their cost in 'Shipping and Handling' to now where I've found significantly better deals on used books (and other media) using various other sites.

Hell, in a true 'everything old is new again', I actually found one piece of media I was looking for cheaper through Wal-Mart than through Amazon. Didn't order because it was cheaper-still through another seller (BetterWorldBooks), but I think that speaks to just how much Amazon has strayed from its original purpose.

Some time 'internet-shopping' (probably somewhere other than Google so you don't get bombarded by their preferred associates) can really find better prices than Amazon.

The idea is to boycott Amazon for one week via no purchases, no watching Amazon Prime and unplugging their smart home devices like Alexa to make your voices heard.

I appreciate their spirit, but... One week? That's a rookie number time-frame! You gotta bring that time-frame up!

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Getting conflicting reports about anime merch being banned off of amazon.

Twitter link:
Archive link:

Not sure if this is intentional on Amazon's part, or if it's just an algorithm nobody knows about doing this stuff automatically. IIRC Amazon hasn't shown any prejudice against anime stuff before.

 

[Captain X]

Yeah they have. They already went on a crusade against figurines because of claims of being pedo bait.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Yeah they have. They already went on a crusade against figurines because of claims of being pedo bait.

Convenient, eh? Just call disliked things paedo-stuff, then ignore how their own side pushes MAPs and how paedophiles are unfairly being prejudged and all that garbage...

This is simply SJWtards being butthurt over their own shit failing to sell while manga and anime stuff sells like hotcakes.

 

[Captain X]

That is probably part of the reason they're attacking it. Outside of their usual shit about "muh objectification" anyway.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

That is probably part of the reason they're attacking it. Outside of their usual shit about "muh objectification" anyway.

Hey, maybe they can petition bigdaddy government to bail them out. Some justification of "We cannot let foreign cultures influence the opinions of our citizens! They would start to reject Social Justice if we don't blast them with propaganda 24/7!", perhaps. But who knows, maybe the american state is a bit more hands-off than the european nations are...

 

[Bear Ribs]

Convenient, eh? Just call disliked things paedo-stuff, then ignore how their own side pushes MAPs and how paedophiles are unfqiairly being prejudged and all that garbage...

This is simply SJWtards being butthurt over their own shit failing to sell while manga and anime stuff sells like hotcakes.

Dealing with a company like Amazon, my base assumption would actually be that they have a product they think the figurines are competing with and the ban will increase their profits. I don't know that that's the case but I've found that to be the actual reason for companies doing things like this repeatedly.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Dealing with a company like Amazon, my base assumption would actually be that they have a product they think the figurines are competing with and the ban will increase their profits. I don't know that that's the case but I've found that to be the actual reason for companies doing things like this repeatedly.

Maybe these retards think the figurines are competeting with funko-pops.

 

[Captain X]

Are you guys forgetting about things like the Parler deplatforming and how after one of the mass shootings they severely restricted the sale of firearm and airsoft related items on their site? Amazon has indeed gone woke. Hell, they even helped make some revenge porn series last year about some AU where blacks enslaved whites.

 

[Doomsought]

Convenient, eh? Just call disliked things paedo-stuff, then ignore how their own side pushes MAPs and how paedophiles are unfairly being prejudged and all that garbage...

One theory is they don't like the market competition, like how a drug lord would lobby to get alcohol and cigarettes banned if he thought it would make people turn towards harder stuff.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Yeah, no, I love anime in general but pedophilia is actually way too common in some anime and I'm surprised this didn't happen years ago.

 

[Captain X]

Yeah, no, I love anime in general but pedophilia is actually way too common in some anime and I'm surprised this didn't happen years ago.

You need to look at what's actually being banned. What's being banned are figures of characters like this:

Are you buying into the lie that this represents CP somehow? I'm not kidding, go look at the link Val posted.