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Amazon To Shut Down Speedy Brick-and-Mortar Delivery Service (theverge.com)

(Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:30PM (BeauHD) from the cost-cutting-efforts dept.)


Amazon is [1]shutting down its Amazon Today service , which provided same-day delivery from mall and brick-and-mortar retailers. The program will mostly wind down by December 2, 2024, with select partners fulfilling orders until January 2025. CNBC reports:

> A small amount of employees will be laid off and provided with severance, while others will be transitioned to other positions within Amazon, the company said. Employees who work on Amazon Today learned the news in a meeting on Monday, where some staffers were informed they would be laid off, the people said. Roughly 300 employees were working on Amazon Today, the people said. Amazon disputed the figure, saying there were approximately 175 employees in the unit. The closure of Amazon Today is the latest example of the company's broader cost-cutting efforts.



[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24278663/google-photos-generative-ai-label-reimagine-best-take


Wrong link? (Score:3)

by King_TJ ( 85913 )

The link in the article takes me to some thing talking about Google detecting AI in photos?

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute --
where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic)
how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom
to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or
political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely
because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the
people who might elect him.
-- from John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial
Association September 12, 1960.