Amazon drivers are reportedly competing against each other to snag new orders by hanging smartphones in trees outside Whole Foods stores

Business Insider ^ | Sep 1, 2020, 11:51 PM | Katie Canales

[Rebelbase]

The hidden truth is that man’s technology and heinous environmental impacts has so perverted nature that trees have mutated to grow phone fruit.

[trebb]

Hope they’re not using lanyards to hang them with...those who see guns in Pop-Tarts also see nooses in anything resembling a loop...

[cnsmom]

Hanging anything in trees is racist.

[tbw2]

A fair chance. The greater issue in freelancing/gig work is the oversupply of labor relative to jobs. From Amazon delivery jobs to Upwork.
For example, Upwork purged over a million accounts and now makes contractors pay to bid on projects. Amazon is purging people who don’t have near perfect ratings and is making you be right by the store to get a job. That you lose 20 minutes trying to get a $5-10 delivery doesn’t matter.

[Wuli]

We are not a big town(four nearby, next door towns also, none super large) yet, on my street and other streets Amazon trucks are ubiquitous, much more numerous than UPS or Fedex trucks. Twice last week we had two Amazon trucks on our little street, at the same time. The second time, as the two trucks departed, a third one was heading up an adjoining street heading our way.

Starbucks had a similar problem in NYC some years back, long before the pandemic. Starbucks was having frequent turn over of its store managers. Starbucks locations were so ubiquitous that at times some were less than a two blocks from each other. But part of the store managers pay is commission, and the managers saw their commissions were hurt by how much the stores were competing with each other more than competing with other coffee house brands.

But it all fits with Amazon’s real intentions. Once their fleet reaches a certain critical mass they plan on going into direct competition with Fedex and UPS for all the non-Amazon delivery business they do.