Amazon Prime Day Protests Call for Change, Not Bargains

Groups call for employee rights and eliminating goods from hate groups

As Amazon employees in Europe reportedly walked off the job to protest conditions at fulfillment centers and encouraged shoppers to boycott Prime Day, additional protests are playing out across the U.S. about income disparity and Amazon’s role in spreading the ideologies of hate groups.

It remains to be seen, however, whether the protests will hurt Amazon’s bottom line—particularly as it added six additional hours of Prime Day deals this year (but it lost the bulk of the first hour to site outages)—or if they will result in policy changes.

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