Amazon
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Transportation providers face an upended market amid pandemic
Uncharted territory as the COVID-19 pandemic upends delivery patterns
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Food retailers boost wages for warehouse and retail workers
Companies also launching a hiring spree to keep up with demand
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New option for sellers blocked by Amazon
Project Verte will fulfill orders from goods redirected away from Amazon DCs during pandemic
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Amazon seeks to hire 100,000 to keep up with surge in orders
Will also temporarily raise pay by US$2 an hour through the end of April for hourly employees
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Walmart will launch a rival to Amazon’s Prime
Will roll out tests in March
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Amazon’s fast, free shipping trumps poor environmental impressions
More than 20 percent of shoppers who say Amazon is a bad environmental actor still buy half their stuff from it
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Amazon builds in Iowa
First DC in the state will be near Des Moines
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Amazon workforce passes 500,000
Staffing up 43 percent from last year and more than triple what it was five years ago
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Amazon reaches 150 million Prime members
Revenues reach US$280 billion in 2019
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Shopify expanding to Vancouver with 1,000 new employees
The move comes amid a hiring and office-opening frenzy at the company