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Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech. (www.marketplace.org)
submitted 1 day ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Amazon is consolidating its grocery business after a rough couple of years for its physical retail stores. The company told Marketplace in a statement it’s eliminating “a very small number” of jobs across teams working on Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh grocery stores.

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are these the same "completely unattended" Amazon locations, which turned out to have thousands of what essentially were middle-eastern slaves operating the shops remotely?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought they were Southeast Asian, or maybe I'm recalling incorrectly.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the operative word is "slaves".

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You gotta label the slaves correctly, it's in very poor taste to not do so.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

That's a fair point.