What One Of Amazon’s Biggest Critics Thinks The Future Of The Retail Industry Means For Workers

Dec 04, 2020

As major department stores across the US have shut their doors or teetered closer to bankruptcy, the hundreds of thousands of workers employed by these chains have also suffered. Many have lost their jobs or seen their hours drastically reduced. At the same time that department stores have slashed positions, the e-commerce industry has exploded in growth. That’s made up for some of these job losses in retail, in a comparable industry. (There are other replacements: discount stores, for example, are one. Some big-box retailers like Walmart are also growing their workforces, particularly during the pandemic.) Read more at Vox.

2 Replies to “What One Of Amazon’s Biggest Critics Thinks The Future Of The Retail Industry Means For Workers”

  1. Amazon IS Big Brother. Amazon IS hell-bent on being the “Everything Store”, and America is the perfect place to do it because while wealth and wage inequality is such a nightmare state of reality, Americans DEMAND to pour as much their money as possible into a company run by a man of staggering wealth. Probably 90% of the readers of this comment are Amazon users. I’ll never win this war I wage, but it’s important to keep trying. I’m flabbergasted that as more an more and more and more business flows through Amazon’s gate and away from local and independent, retailers and reps choose to support them. But they can’t see it. Or won’t.

  2. Amazon simply wants and desire “ALL”
    Logistics
    Food/staples
    Fashion
    Pharma
    Healthcare
    Media
    Insurance
    Banking
    Did i leave anything out?

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