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Amazon is closing eight of its Amazon Go stores including two in New York City, effective early this Spring. The company confirmed the closures in an email to Gizmodo but clarified the only stores affected were those that had minimal impact on customers.

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Amazon is pausing construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on Friday. The company told Gizmodo the delays aren’t impacting phase one of construction, but only phase two, which is slated to be a building across the street.

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Amazon employees are petitioning CEO Andy Jassy to cancel his return-to-office mandate and calling out his about-face on remote work. In a petition to Jassy sent late Tuesday, Amazon workers decried that their trust in the company’s leaders had been “shattered.”

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Merchants on Amazon Marketplace are paying the company a commission fee of more than 50% of each sale.

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ChatGPT has been making the tech industry sweat since its rise in popularity last year, and now Amazon is feeling the heat too.

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Amazon fulfillment center laborers in the United Kingdom have launched the first company strike involving warehouse employees in the country’s history.