Labor Board Goes After Amazon CEO for Suggesting Workers Might Be 'Better Off' Without Unions
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Reason ^
| May 9, 2024 | Eric Boehm
Better not read this post out loud to anyone—federal labor regulators might not like it. The
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) stretched its speech-policing powers to new highs last week when an in-house administrative judge ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had violated federal labor law by expressing anti-unionization views during several televised interviews in recent years. Specifically, Judge Brian Gee dinged Jassy for suggesting that Amazon employees might be "better off" without a union and the layers of bureaucracy that come with it. Jassy made those comments during an appearance on CNBC in 2022—during a segment in which he...
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Amazon Now Giving Itself A Five-Week Window for Shipping Orders No Matter How Much You Pay?
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Amazon.com | May 07, 2024 | Self
Choose a delivery option: Fast, FREE Delivery Amazon Prime FREE Two-Day Shipping with your free trial of Prime Monday, May 13 - Thursday, Jun 13 FREE Delivery Friday, May 10 - Wednesday, Jun 12 $6.99 - Delivery Tomorrow, May 8 - Wednesday, Jun 12 $16.56 - Delivery
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Carjacker Gets Dirt Napped After Trying to Rob an Amazon Delivery Driver
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Red State ^
| 05/06/2024 | Jeff Charles
An attempted carjacker is deceased after trying to target an Amazon driver in Cleveland, Ohio. The incident, which occurred on Saturday, raises questions about companies prohibiting their drivers from carrying firearms while performing their duties. The
shooting occurred after the individual, later identified as 17-year-old Alquin Wells, approached the driver just after 4 p.m.A spokesperson from the Cleveland Division of Police confirmed the incident to 3News. According to a media release, the shooting took place at approximately 4:05 p.m. near the intersection of West 48th Street and Franklin Boulevard.An initial investigation showed that the Amazon driver was working in the...
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May Day ‘revelers’ in Germany torch a fleet of Amazon trucks, pelt cops with eggs and stones
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American Thinker ^
| 05/02/2024 | Olivia Murray
“Mostly peaceful” has been eclipsed as the most ludicrous euphemism for violence and anarchy by a newly-coined German invention: “mostly trouble-free.” Yes
seriously—that’s how German police and media described the chaos of April 30th, or the night before May Day, where “protesters” hurled eggs and rocks at law enforcement and masked agitators “torched” a fleet of Amazon delivery trucks. Here’s the story, from a report out at Breitbart News yesterday:Berlin Police deployed 3,100 officers overnight in Berlin and despite some clashes and incidents of thrown eggs and stones, Die Welt notes the force said the five protests city-wide were ‘mostly...
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Convicted felon with 100+ past offenses arrested for raping, kidnapping Amazon delivery worker
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WKRN ^
| April 26, 2024 | Ethan Illers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A convicted felon, who has been charged with 105 offenses in Nashville since 2007, was arrested Friday for allegedly raping and kidnapping an Amazon delivery worker. The
Metro Nashville Police Department said 34-year-old Carl Jerome Hamilton is charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, and robbery for allegedly attacking an Amazon delivery worker in the mailroom of an apartment building located in the 700 block of President Ronald Reagan Way. The 25-year-old victim was delivering packages to the building at around 4 a.m. Friday, April 26, when Hamilton allegedly pushed her further into the mailroom and shut...
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Funniest Amazon customer review [Passion Natural Water-Based Lubricant - 55 Gallon Drum, by Passion Lube]
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Amazon ^
| 10/12/2011 | Jerome Anderson
Slide Back Into the Game!Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2011 I knew getting back in the "dating game" would be a challenge after being out of it for over 5 years. When
I was released from Joliet, I had to learn all the new things "the dating crowd" was trying. I knew about scented candles and Luther Vandross CDs, and sure was glad to hear people still use them. But I had no idea that "lube" was so popular with the "romantics" out there. All it took was one stroll through the Walgreens personal hygiene aisle to...
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Amazon’s “magical” AI grocery store technology exposed—it was actually 1,000 Indians…
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Revolver ^
| April 3, 2024 | No Attribution
There’s this meme that’s been cracking everyone up online. It
jokes that AI isn’t some next-level tech marvel. Instead, picture this: 5,000 people in India, just sitting around, answering all our queries. It’s a funny take on the whole AI scene and pokes fun at the idea that maybe, just maybe, the big players like Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the government are pulling one over on us.
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Amazon slashes hundreds of jobs in AWS cloud unit despite $7 billion Q4 profit.
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Citizen Watch Report ^
In a move that reeks of corporate callousness, Amazon’s cloud computing behemoth, AWS, slashes hundreds of jobs despite boasting a staggering $7 billion profit in the fourth quarter. The
company’s ruthless pursuit of profit comes at the expense of its employees, with layoffs hitting hard in the physical stores technology and sales and marketing units. The justification? A hollow promise of streamlining operations to focus on “key strategic areas” while conveniently ignoring the human cost of their actions. Amazon’s spokesperson paints a picture of empathy, claiming the decisions were not made lightly and pledging support for affected employees. But the...
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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
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Gizmodo via MSN ^
| 04 03 2024 | Maxwell Zeff
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with. Just
over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling...
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FCC launches crackdown on signal jammers sold by Amazon, others
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interesting engineering ^
| 3/23/24 | Rizwan Choudhury
Uh-oh, Amazon. Looks like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not playing around when it comes to selling illegal signal jammers. The
agency just went public with an investigation into Amazon and other major retailers for allegedly pushing these dodgy devices that can block your cell signal, GPS, and more. Typically advertised as “drone deterrents” or “privacy tools”, these nefarious gadgets are specifically designed to block radio frequencies. This has serious ramifications, cutting off cellular devices and GPS units and impacting emergency communication channels.
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Phony Amazon worker stole $35K in cash, jewelry — and kid’s savings — in NYC home burglary spree
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NY Post ^
| 03/21/2024 | Amanda Woods
A phony Amazon worker has ripped off nearly $35,000 in jewelry and valuables — including cash stashed for a 12-year-old girl — during a months-long burglary spree, authorities said. The
prowler – seen in surveillance video wearing an Amazon delivery vest – is suspected in a string of nine cat burglaries and break-ins from Aug. 24 to March 5, targeting the Astoria, Sunnyside and Long Island City neighborhoods, police said. In a Feb. 28 heist – the one that netted him the most loot – the thief entered through the window of a home at 39th Place and 43rd Avenue...
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Amazon presses the nuclear button: Tech giants show growing interest in atomic power
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Financial Times ^
| 03/18/2024 | Lee Harris
Hello from London, where I am, as a recent American transplant, still adjusting to English understatement (it turns out “you might send me that draft soon” was not just a suggestion). I’m
very excited to join this team. This week’s controversy over new climate reporting rules in the US shows that the push for cleaner, fairer capitalism is becoming ever more fiercely contested. And while this debate may not always be moral, it is certainly material. I hope to help readers see which way it will tack next. Today, I have a story on two big themes that may be...
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Frida Kahlo Corporation Files Lawsuits against Amazon Sellers over Trademark Infringement
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ARTnews ^
| TESSA SOLOMON Plus Icon March 7, 2024 | TESSA SOLOMON Plus Icon March 7, 2024
The Frida Kahlo Corporation filed two lawsuits on March 4 against online merchants in a bid to end the unauthorized reproduction of Kahlo’s likeness and art. The
company, which owns the trademark, has demanded that Amazon vendors either relinquish all profits allegedly made from her counterfeit image, or $2 million “for each and every counterfeit use of the asserted trademarks,” Courthouse News reports. “Defendants’ images, artwork and derivative works are virtually identical to and/or substantially similar to the Frida Kahlo works,” the company wrote in its primary complaint. “Such conduct infringes and continues to infringe the Frida Kahlo works in...
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Private Label Food Fight: Walmart, Aldi, Amazon, Dollar General, Costco Battle For Consumers’ Food Budgets
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Forbes.com ^
| August 24, 2023 | Greg Petro
Unemployment may be low, jobs plentiful, and consumer spending holding up. However,
consumers are still struggling with the rising cost of credit card debt, housing, and automobiles—expenses that defy easy solutions. However, managing the cost of groceries and other essentials, the leading expense for half the respondents in a recent TD Bank survey, is just a click or short drive away. As consumers pull back on discretionary spending, major retailers in the grocery business are doubling down on the power of private-label brands to build traffic and loyalty. The boom is on. Amazon, which owns Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh,...
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Jeff Bezos overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest man as Tesla share price tumbles and Amazon rises
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The Telegraph via MSN ^
| 03/05/2024 | Matthew Field
Jeff Bezos has usurped Elon Musk as the world’s richest man with a net worth of $200bn (£158bn) after a surge in the share price of Amazon. The Amazon founder, 60, overtook his rival for the first time in three years, with Mr Musk now sitting on a fortune worth $198bn, according
to Bloomberg data. The pair’s fortunes are largely tied to their respective holdings in online retail giant Amazon and electric car maker Tesla. Amazon’s shares have climbed 18pc so far this year, valuing the business at more than $1.8 trillion as technology stocks rocket on the back of...
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A MONSTROUS REPTILE RUMORED TO BE LARGEST OF ITS KIND ON EARTH HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
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The Debrief ^
| FEBRUARY 26, 2024 | MICAH HANKS
A massive new species of anaconda that could potentially be the largest currently in existence has been uncovered in the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador, according to newly published findings that expand our understanding of these massive snakes and their habitat. The
discovery was made during fieldwork by a team of researchers with the University of Queensland, who traveled to the region in search of an undocumented variety of northern green anaconda spoken of by its indigenous residents. According to accounts shared by the Waorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, stories of a variety of large anacondas said to exist in...
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Unbelievable video shows Amazon delivery truck being split in HALF by train in destructive accident that the driver somehow survived
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Daily Mail ^
| February 21, 2024 | Emma Richter
This is the unbelievable moment an Amazon delivery truck was sliced in half by a train as the driver miraculously survived the destructive accident.
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation
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CNBC ^
| 02/18/2024
A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections. The
industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which can use deceptive audio, video and images to mimic key stakeholders in democratic elections or to provide false voting information. Microsoft , Meta , Google , Amazon , IBM , Adobe and chip designer Arm all signed the accord. Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI also joined the group, alongside social media companies such as Snap , TikTok and X. Tech platforms are preparing for a huge year of elections...
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The great train heists of the 21st Century: Thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard lumbering freight locomotives laden with Amazon boxes and staging brazen raids that shame Los Angeles
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Daily Mail ^
| 2.10.2024 | Will Potter
California cops have been left scrambling as gangs of thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard mile-long trundling freight trains to loot expensive electronic goods, high-end clothing and jewelry. Sometimes
the robbers strike while the lumbering locomotives are still moving, while others brazenly trigger the emergency brakes so that their accomplices can hack their way into the metal containers. LA is the undisputed 'capital of cargo theft' with trains ferrying goods from the major ports, but the spate of train thefts have almost doubled across the nation since 2019. The issue of mass cargo theft shot into...
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Biden Admin Pressured Amazon to Suppress Books It Didn’t Like
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Front Page Magazine ^
| February 7, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
What’s the difference between books and any other kind of speech? Books
have an emotional quality to them.Delete someone’s post and it can be called enforcing community guidelines, but burn a book and suddenly you’re a Nazi. Speech is still speech, but the idea of going after books in particular summons all sorts of historical references from the Muslim destruction of the Library of Alexandria to book-burning rallies in Berlin.It’s why the Left was able to mobilize so much opposition by accusing school boards and parents of trying to “ban books” by keeping pornographic books out of schools.Still every prior...
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