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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by ma2rten on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:57AM (#25238683)
Amazon is only in 7 countries in Europe. However, Amazon is in China and India. Both countries have a larger population than the US and EU combined.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by petra on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:21PM (#25238848)
Why are they in only 7 countries ?

Is it because they won't likely to sucseed ? Or is it just a matter of time until they expand to more countries ?

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mrweasel on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:20PM (#25240650)
Because why setup a warehouse in Denmark when workers are half the price in Germany and shipping from Germany to Denmark is only marginally more expensive? I suspect the same is true for other countries like The Netherlands and Belgium.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by johnwalkr on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:46PM (#25239031)
They ship throughout Europe from those 7 countries but serve most, if not all, of Europe.
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