I don't work at Amazon, but I'm incredibly grateful for its existence right now and the work it is doing. I can't help but think that almost everyone in the American populace feels likewise, except some politically motivated grousing from certain groups.

Yeah I'd be the first guy to take a crap on Amazon, but you're right about this. We need a functioning supply chain or we'll have civil unrest soon and having a company taking care of that at a time when nearly everything else is closing is good. I also really appreciate the few stories of them cracking down on profiteers since resource scarcity is a big part of why people feel stressed out right now.

Claimer* , or disclosure*.

But other than that, agreed, good job; I saw earlier about not restocking non-essentials, to focus on higher demand for less discretionary items, that's bound to cause some frustration, but it's good to see - since those are presumably the less profitable lines too.

Also in excellent Corporate Social Responsibility this week is LVMH, reconfiguring perfume production lines to produce hand sanitiser for France, for free.

Beats 'Hey Italy, have a free trial of our SaaS product' [0] hands down.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535402

I'd rather have autarky than a global supply chain, but good work none the less.

Oh really? You're selling contaminated improperly packaged medical supplies at 10x - 100x the original price.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETU-_paU0AIjwnK?format=jpg&name=...

World-class my ass.

Amazon's supply chain can be world-class and its anti-fraud can be awful; they're not mutually exclusive statements.

as you should be.