Tag: Amazon
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Amazon introduces ‘Distance Assistant’
Amazon Blog – 6.18.20 (6.16.20) At Amazon, we’re constantly innovating to support our employees, customers, and communities as effectively as possible. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many of our talented engineers rallied to support the health and safety of our associates working to get customers the products they needed. As we reimagined workstations and implemented…
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The future we choose
Amazon Blog – 4.16.20 (4.15.20) The current global health crisis offers lessons that can be applied in how we emerge from and approach the other crisis—the climate crisis. In 2015, Christiana Figueres, then-UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, led a historic multilateral effort to unify 195 countries in the Paris Climate Agreement—the world’s most far…
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New ways we’re getting groceries to people during the COVID-19 crisis
Amazon Blog – 4.13.20 (4.12.20) With the new world of social distancing and stay-at-home orders in place for most of the country, customers have generated unprecedented demand for grocery delivery. Our Amazon associates, Whole Foods Market Team Members, and delivery partners are among the many retail heroes of this COVID-19 crisis. Throughout this process our…
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A 7-year-old’s guide to stay-at-home life during COVID-19
Amazon Blog – 4.6.20 (4.3.20) We love our kids, but parenting through a pandemic can be challenging and stressful. Social distancing and virtual classes means a lot more together time at home. Ten-year-old Lil and 7-year-old Ceci live in Seattle. Their school is closed during the COVID-19 outbreak, and their parents are both working from…
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How Amazon is helping customers get groceries
Amazon Blog – 3.27.20 (3.25.20) We are closely monitoring the impact of COVID-19, and working quickly to get groceries and essential items to customers as fast as possible. Our Whole Foods Market stores and Amazon Go Grocery store will remain open, providing vital goods for customers. We’ve also seen a large increase in people shopping online for groceries through Amazon…
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Women powering Amazon
Amazon Blog – 3.6.20 (3.2.20) Amazonians around the world spend their days striving to delight customers and make their lives easier. Women lead some of the company’s largest and most innovative business teams, and have a positive impact on Amazon products and services. Full Post: Women powering Amazon
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Drivers help design Amazon’s electric fleet
Amazon YouTube Channel – 3.5.20 (3.2.20) Delivery associates helped design Amazon’s new fleet of Rivian electric delivery vehicles with safety and sustainability in mind. Source: Drivers help design Amazon’s electric fleet
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Expanding the path for Black leaders of the future
Amazon Blog – 2.17.20 (2.13.20) As part of Black History Month, Amazon hosted its first-ever conference for students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)—“Beyond the Yard: Your Path, Your Future.” The conference brought Amazon HBCU alumni and 225 students from 42 HBCUs together in Nashville to learn, connect, and think big about their future…
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Go behind the scenes as Amazon develops a new electric vehicle
Amazon Blog – 2.4.20 A sprawling industrial complex in Michigan doesn’t look anything like it did decades ago when American workers assembled automated teller machines in the building. Today, sun-drenched white walls surround a design studio. Light bounces off gleaming floors to highlight scale model vehicles that are nearing final design. Source: Go behind the…
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Real stories of how Alexa helps make life better
Amazon Blog – 1.28.20 We often receive stories from customers about how they interact with Alexa. Now that we’ve entered the new decade, we’re looking back on some of our favorites from the last year. Source: Real stories of how Alexa helps make life better