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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Markley, a 58-year-old former Amazon employee, based in Seattle. It’s been edited for length and clarity.During my seven years at Amazon, I conducted over 500 interviews and earned my title as a bar raiser, an objective, third-party interviewer tasked with…
When Amazon unveiled its Vulcan touch-sensing warehouse robot last week, it framed the technology as a way to make frontline jobs safer and easier.What the company didn’t mention is a broader ambition: using Vulcan and its expanding fleet of warehouse robots to reduce its need to hire a lot more…
Amazon is going back to FedEx after falling out with UPS.According to an internal document obtained by Business Insider, Amazon signed a new partnership deal with FedEx in late February to handle some parts of its package deliveries.The FedEx deal gives Amazon “cost favorability” compared to UPS, the document said,…
Ukraine has launched a program that awards points to soldiers who verifiably kill Russian troops or destroy their equipment. They can then use these rewards to purchase drones and other weapons from an online “Amazon”-style marketplace.Mykhailo Fedorov, who serves as Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, said this week that his…
Andy Jassy said he doesn’t have the “perfect answer” for CEOs as companies grapple with whiplash over tariffs — but he has some advice: “Stay focused.””You can get distracted by, you know, are there going to be tariffs? How high are the tariffs? Are there not going to be tariffs?…
Three teenage boys in New York City have invented a clever packaging material that they hope will replace toxic plastics and make plastic-free shipping a reality.Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, and James Clare are planning to pursue a patent and eventually pitch their product to Home Depot, as well…
Amazon is stepping in to help weather the tariff storm — only for some vendors.Amazon will pay higher prices to its vendors on a “case-by-case basis” to “share the tariff impact,” according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider.That means Amazon will pay some of its wholesale vendors more…
Small business owners who sell on Amazon and Etsy are having to decide what to do about President Donald Trump’s tariffs which have rocked the global stock markets with the threat of increased import costs for Americans.Business Insider spoke to three of them about how they’re navigating the changing climate.Lisa…
The tariff mayhem is throwing Amazon into uncertain territory.Forecasting, for example, has become nearly impossible for some teams. One of Amazon’s largest supply chain units recently warned about the challenges of making its second-quarter projections due to tariffs, according to an internal email obtained by Business Insider.The “volatility and uncertainty”…
