Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by spurgu on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:45PM (#25239929)

European here for perspective. During this time I've lived in four different countries, all without Amazon warehouses:

2020: 6

2019: 4

2018: 1

2017: 0

2016: 2

2015: 8

2014: 3

2013: 14

2012: 12

If I lived in US/UK/DE/IT or wherever they do have warehouses the numbers would probably look different.

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mrweasel on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:13PM (#25240597)

Getting stuff shipped from Germany or the UK takes for even, and packages from amazon.co.uk frequently goes missing. Shipping cost are reasonable, given that it’s across borders, but you can get it cheaper by buying “locally”.

I’m down to just buying books on Amazon, because no one else really sells books anymore, at least not the books I want. For everything else there are better and cheaper local webshops.

Amazon is a mess, you can’t easily find what you want, filtering sucks and 25% of the stuff you want doesn’t ship to your country anyway. Oh, and they treat their warehouse staff terribly, so I minimize what I buy from Amazon.

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by jfk13 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:52PM (#25240867)

I live in the UK.

2012: 19

2013: 28

2014: 61

2015: 27

2016: 41

2017: 64

2018: 22

2019: 2

2020: 0

There are alternatives. I'd rather use them.

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