Commerce

California Appeals Court Rules Amazon Can Be Held Liable for Third-Party Sellers’ Faulty Products

A new chapter unfolded this week in Amazon’s years-long legal battle over selling exploding hoverboards. A California appeals court has ruled that the e-commerce giant is responsible for the safety of third-party products sold on its platform, according to the Los Angeles Times. At the center of this case is Kisha Loomis, a woman who…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Weapons, Ivory, and Other Items Banned by Etsy Still Widely Available on Marketplace, Investigation Finds

The online marketplace Etsy has been flooded with activity since the pandemic’s onset as millions flocked to online shopping to stave off lockdown blues. However, that pandemic-fueled growth is also highlighting Etsy’s struggle to moderate what goes up for sale on its platform. A recent Insider investigation found roughly 800 listings that violate the company’s…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Whole Foods Launching Amazon Palm Reader Payment System in Seattle

Whole Foods will launch a palm reader payment system at its Madison Broadway location in Seattle today and has plans to roll out the biometric program at seven more stores in the coming months, according to an announcement early Wednesday. The electronic palm readers, known as Amazon One, allow people to pay for everything in…

Commerce Matt Novak

Amazon Might Make Its Drivers Assemble Your Furniture

In yet another bid to completely dominate all things e-commerce, Amazon’s reportedly begun testing a premium service that lets its customers opt into having their deliveries assembled once they reach their door. The service is planned to first hit shoppers based in Virginia and “two other markets,” according to an internal Amazon presentation leaked to…

Commerce Shoshana Wodinsky

Amazon Reportedly Pressures Small Businesses with Retaliation if They Don’t Hand Over User Data

Amazon reportedly pressured smart-thermostat maker Ecobee to fork over data from its voice-enabled devices even when customers weren’t actively using them. When Ecobee pushed back, the e-commerce giant threatened to box the company out of high-profile selling events like Prime Day or refuse Alexa certification for future devices, according to a Wall Street Journal report…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote

Amazon reportedly pressured the United States Postal Service to expedite the installation of a mailbox outside of its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse ahead of a high-profile union vote, a move union supporters argue is a blatant tactic to intimidate employees. That’s according to a series of internal USPS emails obtained in a Freedom of Information Act…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in infrastructure, along with a rise in the corporate tax rate. But some of the things Bezos doesn’t support in the statement are conspicuous in their absence. “We support the Biden…

Commerce Matt Novak

Amazon Mumbles ‘Sorry’ for Denying That Its Workers Pee in Bottles, Says Uber and UPS Drivers Do It, Too

After lying about the fact that some of its workers are under so much pressure that they are forced to relieve themselves in bottles in order to meet their quotas, Amazon has quietly said it’s sorry in its own very weird way and acknowledged that drivers do in fact do this. It then promptly pointed…

Commerce Jody Serrano

Amazon Was Reportedly Considering a Chain of Discount Stores Before the Pandemic Hit

Another purported casualty of the coronavirus pandemic has surfaced, folks: Amazon brick-and-mortar discount stores. Yep, the e-commerce giant considered opening up permanent retail locations to peddle unsold inventory before the world descended into lockdown, Bloomberg reported Thursday. While the fallout from covid-19’s spread has shuttered a record number of stores across America and recent consumer…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Amazon Accused of Working With Book Publishers In Price-Fixing Scheme

A small indie bookseller in Chicago is taking on Amazon with a new class action alleging that the e-commerce giant conspired with major publishers to keep prices high and competition low. The actual suit, which was filed last week, alleges that Amazon colluded with the Big Five in book publishing—Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House,…

Commerce Shoshana Wodinsky

Amazon Intended Its Army of Paid Twitter Sycophants to Be ‘Authentic,’ Have a ‘Great Sense of Humor’

Internal Amazon documents show that the company’s widely-derided Twitter “ambassadors” program was intended to be a different sort of laugh riot, according to the Intercept. Multiple Amazon executives on Twitter, as well as the company’s @AmazonNews, went weirdly aggro on the site last week ahead of a union vote at a company warehouse in Alabama.…

Commerce Tom McKay

Amazon Is Getting Sued for Failing to Give Warehouse Workers Meal and Rest Breaks

It’s well documented that some Amazon employees work in grueling, physically taxing, and unsafe conditions. In fact, a former Amazon warehouse employee in California has sued the company for not allowing its workers to take their full mandated meal or rest breaks, even though it discounts time for the former in their paychecks. The case,…

Commerce Jody Serrano

Amazon Illegally Interrogated Queens Warehouse Worker Who Led Pandemic Walkout, NLRB Rules

The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon illegally interrogated a warehouse worker that led colleagues in a strike over the company’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, per a Monday report by Motherboard. Amazon worker Jonathan Bailey led 13 workers in a walkout from a company warehouse in New York City’s Queens borough on…

Commerce Tom McKay

Inspired by Alabama Coworkers, Amazon Employees Nationwide Begin Union Talks: Report

A slew of Amazon workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California are looking into unionizing, emboldened by their Alabama coworkers’ high-profile union campaign, Bloomberg reported Friday. Amazon workers have been fighting to organize for years, citing backbreaking workloads, unsafe conditions amid the global covid-19 pandemic, dystopian workplace surveillance, and Amazon’s history of…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Marco Rubio: I Literally Just Don’t Like Jeff Bezos

In an incoherent op-ed published by USA Today on Friday morning, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio voiced support for a union drive by Amazon warehouse workers he clearly cares nothing about in an attempt to paint Amazon as a “woke” demon and shame it into backing Republicans in the “culture war.” “Uniquely malicious corporate behavior like…

Commerce Andrew Couts

Amazon Rolls Back Icon That Was a Little Too, Uh, Below the Nose

Amazon has quietly edited its app icon, possibly because users noticed that it resembled a smiling, err, uh… we’ll go with Charlie Chaplin, but we don’t really mean Charlie Chaplin. Amazon updated the logo of its iOS mobile app in January to look like a smiling Prime delivery box as seen above, complete with the…

Commerce Tom McKay

Biden Warns Amazon to Stop Intimidating Warehouse Workers Ahead of Union Vote

Joe Biden has effectively endorsed ongoing unionization efforts at an Amazon facility in the state of Alabama and warned the e-commerce giant that its efforts to shut down the drive must involve “no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.” Workers for Amazon have long complained of everything from grueling hours and quotas in…

Commerce Tom McKay

Hundreds of Amazon Drivers Agree That They Deserve a Union in an Informal Driver-Led Survey

In just a few short years, Amazon’s warehouse workers have gone from suffering in silence to jobsite walkouts in Minnesota and more recently a full-blown union vote in Alabama. Now it seems another segment of Amazon’s workforce is taking its first steps towards advocating for better conditions. In an informal driver-led survey shared with Gizmodo,…

Commerce Whitney Kimball

Remastered Nyan Cat Gif Sold for the Equivalent of $587,000 in a Crypto Art Auction

Nyan Cat is turning 10 years old in April (feel old yet?), and to celebrate the anniversary of one of the internet’s most wholesome memes, the artist behind the gif, Chris Torres, put a newly remastered version up for auction. On Friday, the piece sold for 300 Ether on the crypto art platform Foundation, which…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

New York Attorney General Sues Amazon Over ‘Flagrant Disregard’ For Covid Safety

Early on in the pandemic New York Attorney General Letitia James promised an investigation into Amazon’s safety practices and, by god, she delivered. Last night, James filed an expansive lawsuit against Amazon with the New York State Supreme Court for a myriad of alleged failures to adequately protect workers from covid-19 and retaliation against whistleblowers.…

Commerce Whitney Kimball

California Appeals Court Rules Amazon Can Be Held Liable for Third-Party Sellers’ Faulty Products

Weapons, Ivory, and Other Items Banned by Etsy Still Widely Available on Marketplace, Investigation Finds

Whole Foods Launching Amazon Palm Reader Payment System in Seattle

Amazon Might Make Its Drivers Assemble Your Furniture

Amazon Reportedly Pressures Small Businesses with Retaliation if They Don’t Hand Over User Data

Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote

Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Amazon Mumbles ‘Sorry’ for Denying That Its Workers Pee in Bottles, Says Uber and UPS Drivers Do It, Too

Amazon Was Reportedly Considering a Chain of Discount Stores Before the Pandemic Hit

Amazon Accused of Working With Book Publishers In Price-Fixing Scheme

Amazon Intended Its Army of Paid Twitter Sycophants to Be ‘Authentic,’ Have a ‘Great Sense of Humor’

Amazon Is Getting Sued for Failing to Give Warehouse Workers Meal and Rest Breaks

Amazon Illegally Interrogated Queens Warehouse Worker Who Led Pandemic Walkout, NLRB Rules

Inspired by Alabama Coworkers, Amazon Employees Nationwide Begin Union Talks: Report

Marco Rubio: I Literally Just Don’t Like Jeff Bezos

Amazon Rolls Back Icon That Was a Little Too, Uh, Below the Nose

Biden Warns Amazon to Stop Intimidating Warehouse Workers Ahead of Union Vote

Hundreds of Amazon Drivers Agree That They Deserve a Union in an Informal Driver-Led Survey

Remastered Nyan Cat Gif Sold for the Equivalent of $587,000 in a Crypto Art Auction

New York Attorney General Sues Amazon Over ‘Flagrant Disregard’ For Covid Safety

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Let us help find what you are looking for...