Today, Amazon is a global e-commerce giant, selling a wide variety of products and offering services like streaming music and video. 🎵📺
The company has also expanded into areas like cloud computing and grocery stores 🌩️🏪
Amazon has faced its share of challenges, including criticism over its treatment of warehouse workers and antitrust concerns 🧑💼🏛️
In 2002 and 2007, Amazon faced claims of “censorship” for removing books without the author’s notice 📚
In 2011, Amazon tried to take on Apple 🍎
So, they launched the Amazon Fire Phone which turned out to be chaos - the press and the people hated it 🔥
Amazon decided to go back to the e-commerce market, but then ran into an issue with tax avoidance practices 🤔
Even in foreign countries where they had lots of workers and hubs 🏛️
In 2017, Amazon partnered with the U.S. government providing cloud computing services, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 🛩️
Many criticized this and the next year Prime membership rose from $99 to $119/year 👀
Delivery, factory and warehouse employees have continued to have poor working conditions and have been discouraged from Unionizing 🔨
Amazon’s labor treatment continues to face criticism, but since customers rely on the low prices thanks to low wages, few things have changed since 2019 🤷
Despite these challenges, Amazon has continued to thrive and innovate, becoming one of the most successful and influential companies in the world 💰
