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Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc.[6] (/ˈæməzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle,
Amazon.com, Inc.
Washington, that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is
considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Google, Apple, and Facebook.[7][8][9]
Amazon is known for its disruption of well-established industries through technological innovation and mass
scale.[10][11][12] It is the world's largest e-commerce marketplace, AI assistant provider, and cloud computing
platform[13] as measured by revenue and market capitalization.[14] Amazon is the largest Internet company by
revenue in the world.[15] It is the second largest private employer in the United States[16] and one of the world's
most valuable companies. Amazon is the second largest technology company by revenue.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washington. The company initially started as an
online marketplace for books but later expanded to sell electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture,
food, toys, and jewelry. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by
market capitalization.[17] In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.4 billion, which vastly increased The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon
Amazon's presence as a brick-and-mortar retailer.[18] In 2018, Bezos announced that its two-day delivery service, headquarters campus in Seattle
Amazon Prime, had surpassed 100 million subscribers worldwide.[19][20]
Trade name Amazon
Amazon distributes downloads and streaming of video, music, audiobook through its Amazon Prime Video, Formerly Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95)
Amazon Music, and Audible subsidiaries. Amazon also has a publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, a film and Type Public
television studio, Amazon Studios, and a cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services. It produces Traded as NASDAQ: AMZN (https://
consumer electronics including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo devices. In addition, Amazon www.nasdaq.com/symbol/
subsidiaries include Ring, Twitch.tv, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb. Among various controversies, the company amzn)
has been criticized for technological surveillance overreach,[21] a hyper-competitive and demanding work NASDAQ-100 component
culture,[22] tax avoidance,[23] and anti-competitive practices.[24]
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component
ISIN US0231351067
Contents Industry Cloud computing
History E-commerce
Board of directors Artificial intelligence
Merchant partnerships
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Board of directors
As of March 2019, the board of directors is:[27]
Merchant partnerships
In 2000, U.S. toy retailer Toys "R" Us entered into a 10-year agreement with Amazon, valued at $50 million per year plus a cut
of sales, under which Toys "R" Us would be the exclusive supplier of toys and baby products on the service, and the chain's
website would redirect to Amazon's Toys & Games category. In 2004, Toys "R" Us sued Amazon, claiming that because of a
perceived lack of variety in Toys "R" Us stock, Amazon had knowingly allowed third-party sellers to offer items on the service in
categories that Toys "R" Us had been granted exclusivity. In 2006, a court ruled in favor of Toys "R" Us, giving it the right to
unwind its agreement with Amazon and establish its own independent e-commerce website. The company was later awarded
$51 million in damages.[28][29][30] Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
in 2016
In 2001, Amazon entered into a similar agreement with Borders Group, under which Amazon would comanage Borders.com as a
co-branded service.[31] Borders pulled out of the arrangement in 2007, with plans to also launch its own online store.[32]
On October 18, 2011, Amazon.com announced a partnership with DC Comics for the exclusive digital rights to many popular comics, including Superman, Batman,
Green Lantern, The Sandman, and Watchmen. The partnership has caused well-known bookstores like Barnes & Noble to remove these titles from their
shelves.[33]
In November 2013, Amazon announced a partnership with the United States Postal Service to begin delivering orders on Sundays. The service, included in
Amazon's standard shipping rates, initiated in metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and New York because of the high-volume and inability to deliver in a timely way,
with plans to expand into Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Phoenix by 2014.[34]
In June 2017, Nike confirmed a "pilot" partnership with Amazon to sell goods directly on the platform.[35][36][37]
As of October 11, 2017, AmazonFresh sold a range of Booths branded products for home delivery in selected areas.[38]
In September 2017, Amazon ventured with one of its sellers JV Appario Retail owned by Patni Group which has recorded a total income of US$ 104.44 million (₹
759 crore) in financial year 2017–18.[39]
In November 2018, Amazon reached an agreement with Apple Inc. to sell selected products through the service, via the company and selected Apple Authorized
Resellers. As a result of this partnership, only Apple Authorized Resellers may sell Apple products on Amazon effective January 4, 2019.[40][41]
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Amazon.com's product lines available at its website include several media (books, DVDs, music CDs, videotapes and software), apparel, baby products, consumer
electronics, beauty products, gourmet food, groceries, health and personal-care items, industrial & scientific supplies, kitchen items, jewelry, watches, lawn and
garden items, musical instruments, sporting goods, tools, automotive items and toys & games. In August 2019, Amazon applied to have a liquor store in San
Francisco, CA as a means to ship beer and alcohol within the city.[42] Amazon has separate retail websites for some countries and also offers international shipping
of some of its products to certain other countries.[43]
AmazonFresh Fire TV
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Web Services Kindle Store
Alexa Music
Appstore Music Unlimited
Amazon Drive Amazon Digital Game Store
Echo Amazon Studios
Kindle AmazonWireless
Fire tablets
Subsidiaries
Amazon owns over 40 subsidiaries, including Zappos, Shopbop, Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), Audible, Goodreads, Teachstreet, Twitch and
IMDb.[44]
A9.com
A9.com, a company focused on researching and building innovative technology, has been a subsidiary since 2003.[45]
Amazon Maritime
Amazon Maritime, Inc. holds a Federal Maritime Commission license to operate as a non-vessel-owning common carrier (NVOCC), which enables the company to
manage its own shipments from China into the United States.[46]
Audible.com
Audible.com is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information and educational programming on the Internet. Audible sells digital audiobooks,
radio and TV programs and audio versions of magazines and newspapers. Through its production arm, Audible Studios, Audible has also become the world's
largest producer of downloadable audiobooks. On January 31, 2008, Amazon announced it would buy Audible for about $300 million. The deal closed in March
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Michigan.[50] The company produced its first 8 audio titles in 1985.[50] The company was purchased by
Amazon in 2007 for an undisclosed amount.[51][52] At the time of the acquisition, Brilliance was producing
12–15 new titles a month.[52] It operates as an independent company within Amazon.
In 1984, Brilliance Audio invented a technique for recording twice as much on the same cassette.[53] The technique involved recording on each of the two channels
of each stereo track.[53] It has been credited with revolutionizing the burgeoning audiobook market in the mid-1980s since it made unabridged books
affordable.[53]
ComiXology
ComiXology is a cloud-based digital comics platform with over 200 million comic downloads as of September 2013. It offers a selection of more than 40,000 comic
books and graphic novels across Android, iOS, Fire OS and Windows 8 devices and over a web browser. Amazon bought the company in April 2014.[54]
CreateSpace
CreateSpace, which offers self-publishing services for independent content creators, publishers, film studios, and music labels, became a subsidiary in 2009.[55][56]
Eero
Eero is a company that manufactures mesh-capable routers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco. Amazon announced it would buy
Eero in 2019.
Goodreads
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Goodreads is a "social cataloging" website founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer, and entrepreneur, and
Elizabeth Chandler. The website allows individuals to freely search Goodreads' extensive user-populated database of books, annotations, and reviews. Users can
sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions and discussions. In December
2007, the site had over 650,000 members and over 10 million books had been added. Amazon bought the company in March 2013.[57]
Health Navigator
In October 2019, Amazon finalized the acquisition of Health Navigator, a startup developing APIs for online health services. The startup will form part of Amazon
Care, which is the company's employee healthcare service. This follows the 2018 purchase of PillPack for under $1 billion, which has also been included into
Amazon Care.[58]
Lab126
Lab126, developers of integrated consumer electronics such as the Kindle became a subsidiary in 2004.[59]
Kuiper Systems
Amazon announced that they would fund and deploy a large broadband satellite internet constellation called "Project Kuiper" in April 2019.[60][61] It is expected
to take up to a decade to fully deploy all 3,236 satellites planned for the full constellation in order to provide internet to "tens of millions of people who lack basic
access to broadband internet."[60] Amazon has not announced if they intend to sell broadband service directly to consumers, but they will "offer broadband service
through partnerships with other companies."[62]
The satellites will use an orbit with a height between 590 and 630 km (370 and 390 mi).[63] Kuiper will work in concert with Amazon's previously announced large
network of 12 satellite ground station facilities (the "AWS Ground Station unit") announced in November 2018.[64] Amazon filed communications license
documents with the U.S. regulatory authorities the FCC in July 2019, which included information that the wholly owned Amazon subsidiary that intended to
deploy the satellite constellation was Kuiper Systems LLC, based in Seattle, Washington.[65] The Kuiper System will consist of 3,236 satellites operating in 98
orbital planes in three orbital shells, one each at 590 kilometers (370 mi), 610 km (380 mi), and 630 km (390 mi) orbital altitude.[66] The Kuiper System includes
high-performance satellites, terrestrial gateways, internetworking technologies, and a range of customer terminals."[65]
The president of Kuiper Systems is Rajeev Badyal, a former vice president of SpaceX satellite internet constellation business unit.[62]
Ring
Ring is a home automation company founded by Jamie Siminoff in 2013. It is primarily known for its WiFi powered smart doorbells, but manufactures other
devices such as security cameras. Amazon bought Ring for $1 billion USD in 2018.[67]
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Shelfari
Shelfari was a social cataloging website for books. Shelfari users built virtual bookshelves of the titles which they owned or had read and they could rate, review, tag
and discuss their books. Users could also create groups that other members could join, create discussions and talk about books, or other topics. Recommendations
could be sent to friends on the site for what books to read. Amazon bought the company in August 2008.[57] Shelfari continued to function as an independent book
social network within the Amazon until January 2016, when Amazon announced that it would be merging Shelfari with Goodreads and closing down
Shelfari.[68][69]
Souq
Souq.com is the largest e-commerce platform in the Middle East based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On March 28, 2017, Amazon confirmed it would be
acquiring Souq.com for $580 million.[70] Souq.com is now a subsidiary of Amazon, and acts as Amazon's arm into the Middle East region.
Twitch
Twitch is a live streaming platform for video, primarily oriented towards video gaming content. The service was first
established as a spin-off of a general-interest streaming service known as Justin.tv. Its prominence was eclipsed by that
of Twitch, and Justin.tv was eventually shut down by its parent company in August 2014 in order to focus exclusively on
Twitch.[71] Later that month, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for $970 million.[72] Through Twitch, Amazon also owns
Curse, Inc., an operator of video gaming communities and a provider of VoIP services for gaming.[73] Since the
acquisition, Twitch began to sell games directly through the platform,[74] and began offering special features for
Amazon Prime subscribers.[75]
Twitch.tv at the Electronic
Entertainment Expo.
The site's rapid growth had been boosted primarily by the prominence of major esports competitions on the service,
leading GameSpot senior esports editor Rod Breslau to have described the service as "the ESPN of esports".[76] As of
2015, the service had over 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million monthly viewers.[77]
On August 23, 2017, it was reported that the Federal Trade Commission approved the merger between Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market.[79] The following
day it was announced that the deal would be closed on August 28, 2017.[80]
Junglee
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Junglee is a former online shopping service provided by Amazon that enabled customers to search for products from
online and offline retailers in India. Junglee started off as a virtual database that was used to extract information off the
internet and deliver it to enterprise applications. As it progressed, Junglee started to use its database technology to
create a single window marketplace on the internet by making every item from every supplier available for purchase.
Web shoppers could locate, compare and transact millions of products from across the Internet shopping mall through
one window.[81]
Amazon acquired Junglee in 1998, and the website Junglee.com was launched in India in February 2012[82] as a
comparison-shopping website. It curated and enabled searching for a diverse variety of products such as clothing, Whole Foods Market store in Ann
electronics, toys, jewelry and video games, among others, across thousands of online and offline sellers. Millions of Arbor, Michigan
products are browse-able, whereby the client selects a price, and then they are directed to a seller. In November 2017,
Amazon closed down Junglee.com and the former domain currently redirects to Amazon India.[83]
Supply chain
Amazon first launched its distribution network in 1997 with two fulfillment centers in Seattle and New Castle, Delaware. Amazon has several types of distribution
facilities consisting of crossdock centers, fulfillment centers, sortation centers, delivery stations, Prime now hubs, and Prime air hubs. There are 75 fulfillment
centers and 25 sortation centers with over 125,000 employees.[84][85] Employees are responsible for five basic tasks: unpacking and inspecting incoming goods;
placing goods in storage and recording their location; picking goods from their computer recorded locations to make up an individual shipment; sorting and
packing orders; and shipping. A computer that records the location of goods and maps out routes for pickers plays a key role: employees carry hand-held
computers which communicate with the central computer and monitor their rate of progress.
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Amazon.fr fulfillment center LIL1 in Lauwin-Planque, Amazon.es fulfillment center in San Amazon.co.uk fulfillment center
France. Fernando de Henares, Spain in Glenrothes, Scotland
Website
The domain amazon.com attracted at least 615 million visitors annually by 2008.[88] Amazon attracts
Amazon.com
over 130 million customers to its US website per month by the start of 2016.[89] The company has also
invested heavily on a massive amount of server capacity for its website, especially to handle the excessive
traffic during the December Christmas holiday season.[90]
Screenshot
Results generated by Amazon's search engine are partly determined by promotional fees.[91]
Amazon's localized storefronts, which differ in selection and prices, are differentiated by top-level domain
and country code:
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amazon.com homepage
Reviews
Amazon allows users to submit reviews to the web page of each product. Reviewers must rate the product Type of site E-commerce
on a rating scale from one to five stars. Amazon provides a badging option for reviewers which indicate the Available in Arabic · English · French ·
real name of the reviewer (based on confirmation of a credit card account) or which indicate that the German · Spanish · Italian ·
reviewer is one of the top reviewers by popularity. Customers may comment or vote on the reviews, Chinese · Japanese ·
indicating whether they found a review helpful to them. If a review is given enough "helpful" hits, it Portuguese · Dutch · Turkish
appears on the front page of the product. In 2010, Amazon was reported as being the largest single source Owner Amazon.com
of Internet consumer reviews.[92]
Website amazon.com (http://Amazon.co
m) (original U.S. site)
Alexa rank 10 (http://www.alexa.com/site
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When publishers asked Bezos why Amazon would publish negative reviews, he defended the practice by info/amazon.com)
claiming that Amazon.com was "taking a different approach ... we want to make every book available—the (Global, January 2018)
good, the bad and the ugly ... to let truth loose".[93] Commercial Yes
There have been cases of positive reviews being written and posted by public relations companies on Registration Optional
behalf of their clients[94] and instances of writers using pseudonyms to leave negative reviews of their Launched 1995
rivals' works.
Current status Online
Written in C++ and Java
Content search [86][87]
"Search Inside the Book" is a feature which allows customers to search for keywords in the full text of
many books in the catalog.[95][96] The feature started with 120,000 titles (or 33 million pages of text) on October 23, 2003.[97] There are about 300,000 books in
the program. Amazon has cooperated with around 130 publishers to allow users to perform these searches.
To avoid copyright violations, Amazon does not return the computer-readable text of the book. Instead, it returns a picture of the matching page, instructs the web
browser to disable printing and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Additionally, customers can purchase online access to some
of the same books via the "Amazon Upgrade" program.
Third-party sellers
Amazon derives many of its sales (around 40% in 2008) from third-party sellers who sell products on Amazon.[98] Associates receive a commission for referring
customers to Amazon by placing links to Amazon on their websites if the referral results in a sale. Worldwide, Amazon has "over 900,000 members" in its affiliate
programs.[99] In the middle of 2014, the Amazon Affiliate Program is used by 1.2% of all websites and it is the second most popular advertising network after
Google Ads.[100] It is frequently used by websites and non-profits to provide a way for supporters to earn them a commission.[101] Amazon reported over 1.3 million
sellers sold products through Amazon's websites in 2007. Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are
handled by Amazon.
Associates can access the Amazon catalog directly on their websites by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML service. A new affiliate product, aStore, allows
Associates to embed a subset of Amazon products within another website, or linked to another website. In June 2010, Amazon Seller Product Suggestions was
launched (rumored to be internally called "Project Genesis") to provide more transparency to sellers by recommending specific products to third-party sellers to
sell on Amazon. Products suggested are based on customers' browsing history.[102] In 2019, Amazon launched a bigger local online store in Singapore to expand its
product selection in the face of intensifying competition with competitors in the region.[103]
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The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. It is a relative indicator of popularity that is updated
hourly. Effectively, it is a "best sellers list" for the millions of products stocked by Amazon.[104] While the ASR has no direct effect on the sales of a product, it is
used by Amazon to determine which products to include in its bestsellers lists.[104] Products that appear in these lists enjoy additional exposure on the Amazon
website and this may lead to an increase in sales. In particular, products that experience large jumps (up or down) in their sales ranks may be included within
Amazon's lists of "movers and shakers"; such a listing provides additional exposure that might lead to an increase in sales.[105] For competitive reasons, Amazon
does not release actual sales figures to the public. However, Amazon has now begun to release point of sale data via the Nielsen BookScan service to verified
authors.[106] While the ASR has been the source of much speculation by publishers, manufacturers, and marketers, Amazon itself does not release the details of its
sales rank calculation algorithm. Some companies have analyzed Amazon sales data to generate sales estimates based on the ASR,[107] though Amazon states:
Please keep in mind that our sales rank figures are simply meant to be a guide of general interest for the customer and not definitive sales
information for publishers—we assume you have this information regularly from your distribution sources
— Amazon.com Help[108]
Some other large e-commerce sellers use Amazon to sell their products in addition to selling them through their own websites. The sales are processed through
Amazon.com and end up at individual sellers for processing and order fulfillment and Amazon leases space for these retailers. Small sellers of used and new goods
go to Amazon Marketplace to offer goods at a fixed price.[110]
Amazon also employs the use of drop shippers or meta sellers. These are members or entities that advertise goods on Amazon who order these goods direct from
other competing websites but usually from other Amazon members. These meta sellers may have millions of products listed, have large transaction numbers and
are grouped alongside other less prolific members giving them credibility as just someone who has been in business for a long time. Markup is anywhere from 50%
to 100% and sometimes more, these sellers maintain that items are in stock when the opposite is true. As Amazon increases their dominance in the marketplace
these drop shippers have become more and more commonplace in recent years.
In November 2015, Amazon opened a physical Amazon Books store in University Village in Seattle. The store is 5,500 square feet and prices for all products match
those on its website.[111] Amazon will open its tenth physical book store in 2017;[112] media speculation suggests Amazon plans to eventually roll out 300 to 400
bookstores around the country.[111]
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Finances
Amazon.com is primarily a retail site with a sales revenue model; Amazon takes a small percentage of the sale price of each item that is sold through its website
while also allowing companies to advertise their products by paying to be listed as featured products.[114] As of 2018, Amazon.com is ranked 8th on the Fortune
500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.[115]
For the fiscal year 2018, Amazon reported earnings of US$10.07 billion, with an annual revenue of US$232.887 billion, an increase of 30.9% over the previous
fiscal cycle. Since 2007 sales increased from 14.835 billion to 232.887 billion, thanks to continued business expansion.[116] Amazon's market capitalization was
valued at over US$803 billion in early November 2018.[117]
Controversies
Since its founding, the company has attracted criticism and controversy for its actions, including: supplying law enforcement with facial recognition surveillance
tools;[130] forming cloud computing partnerships with the CIA;[131] leading customers away from bookshops;[132] adversely impacting the environment;[133]
placing a low priority on warehouse conditions for workers; actively opposing unionization efforts;[134] remotely deleting content purchased by Amazon Kindle
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users; taking public subsidies; seeking to patent its 1-Click technology; engaging in anti-competitive actions and price discrimination;[24] and reclassifying LGBT
books as adult content.[135][136] Criticism has also concerned various decisions over whether to censor or publish content such as the WikiLeaks website, works
containing libel and material facilitating dogfight, cockfight, or pedophile activities. In December 2011, Amazon faced a backlash from small businesses for running
a one-day deal to promote its new Price Check app. Shoppers who used the app to check prices in a brick-and-mortar store were offered a 5% discount to purchase
the same item from Amazon.[137] Companies like Groupon, eBay and Taap.it countered Amazon's promotion by offering $10 off from their products.[138][139] The
company has also faced accusations of putting undue pressure on suppliers to maintain and extend its profitability. One effort to squeeze the most vulnerable book
publishers was known within the company as the Gazelle Project, after Bezos suggested, according to Brad Stone, "that Amazon should approach these small
publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle."[91] In July 2014, the Federal Trade Commission launched a lawsuit against the company alleging it was
promoting in-app purchases to children, which were being transacted without parental consent.[140]
Environmental impact
In November 2018, a community action group opposed the construction permit delivered to Goodman Group for the construction of a 160,000 square metres
(1,700,000 sq ft) logisitics platform Amazon will operate at Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport. In February 2019, Étienne Tête filed a request on behalf of a second
regional community action group asking the administrative court to decide whether the platform served a sufficiently important public interest to justify its
environmental impact. Construction has been suspended while these matters are decided.[133]
Many U.S. states in the 21st century have passed online shopping sales tax laws designed to compel Amazon.com and other e-commerce retailers to collect state
and local sales taxes from its customers. Amazon.com originally collected sales tax only from five states as of 2011, but as of April 2017, Amazon collects sales taxes
from customers in all 45 states that have a state sales tax and in Washington, D.C.[143]
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Income taxes
Amazon paid no federal income taxes in the U.S. in 2017 and 2018, and actually received tax refunds worth millions of dollars, despite recording several billion
dollars in profits each year.[23] CNN reported that Amazon's tax bill was zero because they took advantage of provisions in years when they were losing money that
allowed them to offset future taxes on profits, as well as various other tax credits.[144] Amazon was criticized by political figures for not paying federal income
taxes.[145]
Throughout the summer of 2018, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Amazon's wages and working conditions in a series of YouTube videos and media
appearances. He also pointed to the fact that Amazon had paid no federal income tax in the previous year.[149] Sanders solicited stories from Amazon warehouse
workers who felt exploited by the company.[150] One such story, by James Bloodworth, described the environment as akin to "a low-security prison" and stated that
the company's culture used an Orwellian newspeak.[151] These reports cited a finding by New Food Economy that one third of fulfilment center workers in Arizona
were on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).[152] Responses by Amazon included incentives for employees to tweet positive stories and a
statement which called the salary figures used by Sanders "inaccurate and misleading". The statement also charged that it was inappropriate for him to refer to
SNAP as "food stamps".[150] On September 5, 2018, Sanders along with Ro Khanna introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act
aimed at Amazon and other alleged beneficiaries of corporate welfare such as Walmart, McDonald's and Uber.[153] Among the bill's supporters were Tucker
Carlson of Fox News and Matt Taibbi who criticized himself and other journalists for not covering Amazon's contribution to wealth inequality earlier.[154][155]
On October 2, Amazon announced that its minimum wage for all American employees would be raised to $15 per hour. Sanders congratulated the company for
making this decision.[156]
Working conditions
Former employees, current employees, the media, and politicians have criticized Amazon for poor working conditions at the company.[22][157][158] In 2011, it was
publicized that workers had to carry out tasks in 100 °F (38 °C) heat at the Breinigsville, Pennsylvania warehouse. As a result of these inhumane conditions,
employees became extremely uncomfortable and suffered from dehydration and collapse. Loading-bay doors were not opened to allow in fresh air because of
concerns over theft.[159] Amazon's initial response was to pay for an ambulance to sit outside on call to cart away overheated employees.[159] The company
eventually installed air conditioning at the warehouse.[160]
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Some workers, "pickers", who travel the building with a trolley and a handheld scanner "picking" customer orders can walk up to 15 miles during their workday and
if they fall behind on their targets, they can be reprimanded. The handheld scanners give real-time information to the employee on how quickly or slowly they are
working; the scanners also serve to allow Team Leads and Area Managers to track the specific locations of employees and how much "idle time" they gain when not
working.[161][162]
In a German television report broadcast in February 2013, journalists Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken conducted a covert investigation at the distribution center of
Amazon in the town of Bad Hersfeld in the German state of Hessen. The report highlights the behavior of some of the security guards, themselves being employed
by a third party company, who apparently either had a neo-Nazi background or deliberately dressed in neo-Nazi apparel and who were intimidating foreign and
temporary female workers at its distribution centers. The third party security company involved was delisted by Amazon as a business contact shortly after that
report.[163][164][165][166]
In March 2015, it was reported in The Verge that Amazon will be removing non-compete clauses of 18 months in length from its US employment contracts for
hourly-paid workers, after criticism that it was acting unreasonably in preventing such employees from finding other work. Even short-term temporary workers
have to sign contracts that prohibit them from working at any company where they would "directly or indirectly" support any good or service that competes with
those they helped support at Amazon, for 18 months after leaving Amazon, even if they are fired or made redundant.[167][168]
A 2015 front-page article in The New York Times profiled several former Amazon employees[169] who together described a "bruising" workplace culture in which
workers with illness or other personal crises were pushed out or unfairly evaluated.[17] Bezos responded by writing a Sunday memo to employees,[170] in which he
disputed the Times's account of "shockingly callous management practices" that he said would never be tolerated at the company.[17]
In an effort to boost employee morale, on November 2, 2015, Amazon announced that it would be extending six weeks of paid leave for new mothers and fathers.
This change includes birth parents and adoptive parents and can be applied in conjunction with existing maternity leave and medical leave for new mothers.[171]
In mid-2018, investigations by journalists and media outlets such as The Guardian reported poor working conditions at Amazon's fulfillment centers.[172][173]
Later in 2018, another article exposed poor working conditions for Amazon's delivery drivers.[174]
In response to criticism that Amazon does not pay its workers a livable wage, Jeff Bezos announced beginning November 1, 2018, all US and UK Amazon
employees will earn a $15 an hour minimum wage.[175] Amazon will also lobby to make $15 an hour the federal minimum wage.[176] At the same time, Amazon also
eliminated stock awards and bonuses for hourly employees.[177]
On Black Friday 2018, Amazon warehouse workers in several European countries, including Italy, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, went on strike to
protest inhumane working conditions and low pay.[178]
The Daily Beast reported in March 2019 that emergency services responded to 189 calls from 46 Amazon warehouses in 17 states between the years 2013 and 2018,
all relating to suicidal employees. The workers attributed their mental breakdowns to employer-imposed social isolation, aggressive surveillance, and the hurried
and dangerous working conditions at these fulfillment centers. One former employee told The Daily Beast "It's this isolating colony of hell where people having
breakdowns is a regular occurrence."[179]
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On July 15, 2019, during the onset of Amazon's "Prime Day" sale event, Amazon employees working in the United States and Germany went on strike in protest of
unfair wages and poor working conditions.[180][181]
The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government called for more transparency.[186] Another local organization known as the People's Alliance for Transit, Housing,
and Employment (PATHE) suggested no public money should be given to Amazon; instead, it should be spent on building more public housing for the working
poor and the homeless and investing in more public transportation for Nashvillians.[187] Others suggested incentives to big corporations do not improve the local
economy.[188]
In November 2018, the proposal to give Amazon $15 million in incentives was criticized by the Nashville Firefighters Union and the Nashville chapter of the
Fraternal Order of Police,[189] who called it "corporate welfare."[190] In February 2019, another $15.2 million in infrastructure was approved by the council,
although it was voted down by three council members, including Councilwoman Angie Henderson who dismissed it as "cronyism".[191]
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While Amazon has publicly opposed secret government surveillance, as revealed by Freedom of Information Act requests it has supplied facial recognition support
to law enforcement in the form of the Rekognition technology and consulting services. Initial testing included the city of Orlando, Florida, and Washington County,
Oregon. Amazon offered to connect Washington County with other Amazon government customers interested in Rekognition and a body camera manufacturer.
These ventures are opposed by a coalition of civil rights groups with concern that they could lead to an expansion of surveillance and be prone to abuse.
Specifically, it could automate the identification and tracking of anyone, particularly in the context of potential police body camera integration.[130][192][193]
Because of the backlash, the city of Orlando has publicly stated it will no longer use the technology.[194]
Lobbying
Amazon lobbies the United States federal government and state governments on issues such as the enforcement of sales taxes on online sales, transportation safety,
privacy and data protection and intellectual property. According to regulatory filings, Amazon.com focuses its lobbying on the United States Congress, the Federal
Communications Commission and the Federal Reserve. Amazon.com spent roughly $3.5 million, $5 million and $9.5 million on lobbying, in 2013, 2014 and 2015,
respectively.[195]
Amazon.com was a corporate member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) until it dropped membership following protests at its shareholders'
meeting on May 24, 2012.[196]
In 2014, Amazon expanded its lobbying practices as it prepared to lobby the Federal Aviation Administration to approve its drone delivery program, hiring the
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld lobbying firm in June.[197] Amazon and its lobbyists have visited with Federal Aviation Administration officials and aviation
committees in Washington, D.C. to explain its plans to deliver packages.[198]
See also
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Amazon Flexible Payments Service
Amazon Marketplace
Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)
Camelcamelcamel – a website that tracks the prices of products sold on Amazon.com
List of book distributors
Statistically improbable phrases – Amazon.com's phrase extraction technique for indexing books
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Further reading
Brandt, Richard L. (2011). One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com (http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781591843757,00.html).
New York: Portfolio Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59184-375-7.
Daisey, Mike (2002). 21 Dog Years (https://archive.org/details/21dogyearsdoingt00dais). Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-2580-5.
Friedman, Mara (2004). Amazon.com for Dummies (https://archive.org/details/amazoncomfordumm00frie). Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0-7645-5840-4.
Marcus, James (2004). Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut (https://archive.org/details/amazonia00marc). W. W. Norton.
ISBN 1-56584-870-5.
Spector, Robert (2000). Amazon.com – Get Big Fast: Inside the Revolutionary Business Model That Changed the World. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-662041-4.
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Stone, Brad (2013). The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. New York: Little Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-316-21926-6. OCLC 856249407 (h
ttps://www.worldcat.org/oclc/856249407).
External links
Official website (https://www.amazon.com)
Amazon (company) companies (https://opencorporates.com/corporate_groupings/Amazon) grouped at OpenCorporates
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Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AMZN:US) · Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=AMZN) · SEC filings (https://w
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