This year, like every year, Amazon workers’ attempts to draw attention to their exploitative conditions were largely drowned out by hundreds of fawning PR press releases thinly disguised as articles about how “consumers” could “take advantage” of “amazing deals” offered by Amazon on “Prime Day.”
An Amazon software engineer once told me that prime day was created to stress test their software performance and logistics at scale ahead of the Black Friday and Christmas buying season when traffic would be at the highest. Basically the sales were primarily used to generate traffic rather than turn a profit. Not sure how true that is but it sounded believable enough.
An Amazon software engineer once told me that prime day was created to stress test their software performance and logistics at scale ahead of the Black Friday and Christmas buying season when traffic would be at the highest. Basically the sales were primarily used to generate traffic rather than turn a profit. Not sure how true that is but it sounded believable enough.