When Americans couldn’t find hand sanitizer, toilet paper and disinfecting wipes on Amazon.com, many assumed the products had run out. In fact, in some cases the products were available, but merchants had pulled them to avoid getting caught up in Amazon’s price-gouging crackdown — even though they weren’t raising prices.
Amazon’s Prime Air fleet will grow to about 200 planes — up from 42 now — in the next seven or eight years, creating an air cargo service that could rival United Parcel Service Inc., according to a study.
China boasts the largest e-commerce market in the world — more than 50% of the global total. New rules in cross-border e-commerce, however, could change the market this year.
While battling COVID-19 and the myriad logistical complexities the virus has introduced, Amazon is fighting a war on its other flank — against organized labor.
