Faced with a nationwide backlash, the world’s largest online retailer pulls back its plan for cashless stores. For now.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Labor Didn’t Shrink From Confronting Amazon
But unions were sharply divided about how to deal with the tech giant.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Amazon Is Giving Up on New York, and Activists in Nashville and Northern Virginia Are Energized
Like their New York counterparts, organizers in other potential sites of Amazon expansion want a more democratic process that produces more equitable growth.
Posted inTAP
Remind Me, Why Does Amazon Get to Own Everything?
Good for New York, especially for New York’s unions, for making it clear that the town was not for sale. But everything else seems to be. I admit that I patronize Whole Foods, now owned by Amazon. There’s one in my neighborhood, and if you shop carefully and also go to the supermarket, it needn’t […]
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Amazon and America’s Real Divide
The company’s HQ2 will only widen the growing inequality of place.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How to Regulate Tech Platforms
Their sheer market power destroys rivals and abuses data of users.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Why Trump Doesn’t Go After Jeff Bezos
Hint: It would require the serious use of antitrust law. When push comes to shove, Trump is more fellow plutocrat than populist.
Posted inWorking in America
Workers Strike and Promote Boycotts on Amazon Prime Day
The online retail giant had an eventful Prime Day, with strikes, boycotts, demonstrations—and of course, billions of dollars in profit.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Amazon to Seattle: The Housing Crisis Is Not Our Problem
If this is how Amazon treats its first hometown, what does that mean for cities competing for its new headquarters?
Posted inTAP
Amazon, President Trump says, isn’t paying enough in taxes
Here’s one of his tweets from earlier today: I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of […]
