Walmart Tries To Keep Pace With Behemoth Amazon, Expands Unlimited Grocery Delivery
MATT M. MILLER CONTRIBUTOR Walmart announced Thursday it is expanding its unlimited grocery delivery subscription service over the fall, as it joins the race against delivery companies like Amazon. The service will charge subscribers an annual fee of $98, or a monthly fee of $12.95 for same-day grocery delivery, requiring a minimum order amount […]
After Amazon Walks Away, Oxnard Hopes Education, Reforms Attract New Economy Jobs
By Gina Harden OXNARD – Oxnard Mayor Tim Flynn and City Manager Alex Nguyen recently offered their perspective on the failed negotiations between the city and Amazon’s representatives, Seefried Properties, in building a distribution center at the Sakioka Farms site. Nguyen expressed “frustration about how bureaucratic” the system was and said, “we didn’t […]
Flashback: Here’s How The NYT Reacted To Similar Amazon Fires More Than 30 Years Ago
Mary Margaret Olohan |Social Issues Reporter The Amazon rainforest is burning, but 1988 reporting from The New York Times shows this is no new phenomenon. Farmers and settlers have started fires for years to clear spaces for their crops. Celebrities bewail the burning forests with random pictures from the internet, claiming the Amazon forests […]
Amazon Introduces Counter in the U.S. – Where Customers Can Pick Up Their Package and Shop Too
Over time, the Counter network will expand to thousands of other locations through additional partnerships with retailers, convenience stores and small businesses across the U.S. Amazon today announced the U.S. launch of Counter, a new network of staffed pickup points that gives customers the option to pick up their Amazon packages in-store at a partner […]
Amazon’s Prime Delivery “Ain’t” What It Used to Be
By Debra Tash Amazon is developing its own delivery system. The company launched their Last Mile Shipping program last year. Drivers pick up packages from what Amazon calls “outposts” and takes them to their final destination. However, as with ancient Rome, even this mega of all mega corporations can’t build an infrastructure in […]
Twitter Backs Off Partnership With SPLC Amid Bombshell Reports. Amazon Stays Silent
By CHRIS WHITE, Energy Reporter Twitter appears to be one of the only big tech companies to back out of an alliance with the Southern Poverty Law Center after the group’s long-time president was fired for unspecified conduct reasons, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. “The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust […]
‘Thanks For Nothing!’: Times Square Billboard Blasts Ocasio-Cortez Over Amazon Deal
Virginia Kruta, Associated Editor “Thanks for nothing, AOC!” A giant digital billboard in Times Square is calling out freshman Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her supposed role in sinking the city’s deal with Amazon. The billboard, paid for by business advocacy group the Job Creators Network, details just a few of the things New York may have lost when […]
L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise | What Would Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Do?
L. Neil Smith All that the left knows how to do is steal and kill and wreck what they’re incapable of building or even understanding. In the latest instance, Amazon.com, that great cornucopian Sears-Roebuck of the twenty-first century, which was going to establish a new corporate headquarters, choosing Long Island City, New York from among […]
New York City May Be On The Verge Of Losing Its Massive Deal With Amazon
Tim Pearce | Energy Reporter Amazon is reportedly rethinking its promise to build a headquarters in New York City after receiving pushback from local officials and residents, sources told The Washington Post. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, are pushing for the Amazon deal after being instrumental in securing […]
New Book: Last Call America by Debra Tash
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