Specifically, they don’t want to talk about…
“the risks arising from the public debate over Amazon’s growth and societal impact and how Amazon is managing or mitigating those risks.”
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/amazon-aims-block-its-own-shareholders-questions-about-growth-2648046?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true
Haven’t read it yet, but I’m imagining something like this:
I’m shocked. Shocked.
@f00l
/giphy shocked
I haven’t said anything unpopular of late. Today might as well be the day. As a shareholder (via fund holdings), I’m fine with Amazon squelching this and other similar “questions” that will inevitably be voted down (because institutional voters have most of the votes), and will have no long term effects EVEN IF THIS OR SIMILAR ITEMS PASSED.
I would not personally work for Amazon. There are better, kinder companies to work for. They’ve just barely been showing an actual profit (yes, my darlings, they’ve run at a loss for years and years), and just started looking decent around 2015 (not that long ago). Currently, they’re overpriced, and I expect it to go even higher, when the market opens again tomorrow.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-blows-past-wall-street-211835161.html
It closed today at (get your sunglasses out, this will be painful) $1390, off from a high of $1450. After hours trading is already above that high, though ($1472 at 5PM EST).
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?p=AMZN
@medz Can you tell them as a shareholder that this Prime Pantry nonsense costs them sales? I’ve told them as a Prime customer. I just threw four items out of my shopping cart that I really wanted because they are stupid Prime Pantry. I don’t mind the minimum cart amount, but requiring it to all be Pantry items or pay $6 shipping when I’m already paying for Prime is ridiculous and just makes me mad at Amazon.
@moondrake Yeah, I’ll call Jeff. Or maybe @Shrdlu would be more helpful.
@moondrake That Prime Pantry is a bunch of nonsense when you are already paying for Prime shipping. They don’t even ship “Prime” pantry items very fast.
@medz I’m pretty sure that I have never used Amazon to buy food. It’s unlikely that I ever will. Most of the food I buy comes in its original packaging, or fairly close. I do buy flour and sugar and other staples, but prefer most of my food to be fresh. I do understand that not everyone has that option, but I have no interest in buying food from Amazon.
@Shrdlu ok…
@Shrdlu I don’t buy a lot of packaged foods either, which is why meeting the minimum amount for Prime Pantry is not practical. What I’m trying to buy are nuts and other reasonably healthy snacks to take to a game convention where fresh food will be in short supply. I’ve run into this problem in the past trying to buy things like seasoned salt and real maple syrup as well.
https://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/amazon-files-patent-for-wearable-iot-wristband-to-track-its-warehouse-workers/
@RiotDemon Guess they’ve got people doing modern things at work and want to stop that.