Less sales leads to less activity and deliveries
If Amazon is not taking precautions and putting the population at risk, they should be shut down.
Amazon is already putting massive delays on non-essential goods (delivery times have moved from 2 days to up to 1 month) in order to prioritize moving essential goods. Not to mention, they've said they're hiring due to the massive influx of orders for essential goods.
So logically speaking, if a large portion of their current activity is already essential goods, what is this besides a way to look like they're standing up to the big bad foreign tech company while getting to keep their deliveries flowing in (all without actually protecting anyone)
I think the point is many suspect that is not the case.
https://thegrio.com/2020/04/01/amazon-worker-strike-covid-19...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-seeks-to-hire-another-75...
It’s true Amazon is still selling non-essential goods, and I understand why the man is frustrated, but it’s very clear even with just “essential goods” being sold, Amazon will still require a large part of their current machinery.
When you’re talking about an organization as large as Amazon Fulfillment, and a virus as infectious as COVID, these half-measures definitely come across as more for optics than actually stopping the spread.
This guy has really weird standards for what qualifies as essential.
Not a single source I've read on this has a hard actionable order on Amazon that actually improves the safety of those who will still be involved in their operations.
The closest they got to that is for them to self evaluate... which they already did and came to conclusions which are actively putting people at risk
At least here in the UK those items showing delivery estimates a month away still show up in a day or two.