Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Here’s why Amazon wants to get rid of the barcode

Amazon wants to get rid of the barcode

Amazon has a plan to get rid of barcodes from its warehouses. The e-commerce giant is training robots that can identify items while picking them up and turning them around. Products in Amazon warehouses will still need barcodes as long as companies that make and ship them use them. Robots may be the way of … Read more

Extinction Rebellion targets Amazon in Black Friday protests

LONDON – Activists from Extinction Rebellion blockaded more than a dozen distribution centres of online retail giant Amazon in Britain in what they called coordinated global Black Friday sales protests. Dozens of demonstrators from the environmental movement — known as XR — blocked the company’s largest UK warehouse, in Dunfermline in Scotland, as well as … Read more

Amazon to hire 100,000 more workers in 2020

Amazon front-line workers coronavirus

The world’s biggest online retailer Amazon has announced on Monday that it would be hiring 100,000 more workers in the United States as part of its fourth hiring spree of 2020 to cope up with the jump in demand for e-commerce during the pandemic. According to the details, Amazon in its announcement said  the positions … Read more

Amazon opens small warehouses to ensure same day delivery to customers

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American multinational technology company Amazon has opened a series of small warehouses closer to big U.S. cities in a move to shave hours off delivery times. Reuters reported that Amazon updating its same-day delivery program for shoppers in Phoenix, Philadelphia, Dallas and Orlando, it said. Amazon will guarantee packages arrive by several set times daily. … Read more