Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

Post by VectorLock » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 11:09 PM UTC

taurath wrote: post #65

tlrobinson wrote: post #60

One of the more worrying things to me is how this pandemic (and/or our response to it) will disproportionately affect small businesses and individuals. As Amazon hires 100k workers how many jobs are being lost by small businesses failing?

Amazon is now the only store open. This will clearly accelerate the death of retail, to the point that I'm not even sure it will survive. We must have a rent holiday if those businesses and their workers are to survive.

Post by nixpulvis » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 11:13 PM UTC

SQL2219 wrote: post #82

hirundo wrote: post #68

If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)

He looks like Lex Luther.

Post by allovernow » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 11:15 PM UTC

stevenwoo wrote: post #84

allovernow wrote: post #73

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That's actually really good news, thank you. You can just leave packages outside for a day or two.

Paranoid thought - what if it's on plastic or exposed steel on something inside the package (like the wrapping on a box or an ladle that doesn't come fully enclosed in a box), you need to wait three days or so.

Post by turbostyler » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 11:16 PM UTC

allovernow wrote: post #73

gregschlom wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NPR talked about a study testing cardboard actually. Up to 24h under ideal conditions. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8116090... Link to study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

That's actually really good news, thank you. You can just leave packages outside for a day or two.

Post by progval » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 11:18 PM UTC

satysin wrote: post #62

product50 wrote: post #40

Where is the comment here on billionaire taxes? Literally Amazon is the only company because of which I feel comfortable right now sitting in my house vs. panic buying.

Here in [redacted] literally everything on Amazon.fr that I would like to order is unavailable for delivery until next Monday. In [redacted] at least. I won't say everything is like that but I have been looking at some school supplies as my son is home and I have been unable to find anything for delivery this week.