Amazon Chronicles is a newsletter about Amazon and the users, workers, communities, and industries in its shadow.
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No newsletter this week because @tcarmody has been ill (he’ll be fine), but should be back midweek (inshallah)
There’s no Amazon Chronicles newsletter this week. I hope that you, like me, are enjoying fewer emails at the end of the year! See you in 2023
What happens to “Think Big” when every division of Amazon needs to make a profit? What happens to “delight the customer” when your customer is the US Department of Defense? At Amazon, the ideological mask is slipping off: amazonchronicles.ghost.io/am…
A new edition of Amazon Chronicles, including a link roundup of the last few weeks of Amazon news, and a sketch of how @tcarmody is thinking about Amazon and the other tech giants these days amazonchronicles.ghost.io/an…
I've heard from readers (including my own wife) who didn't receive a copy of the newest newsletter. By Revue’s own count, hundreds of subscribers weren’t sent an email. Many others routed it to spam. I’m trying to fix this. You can read it on the web here: getrevue.co/profile/tcarmody…
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Two Ways Amazon Misjudged Its Workforce Pipeline, By Tim Carmody @tcarmody / @AmazonChron getrevue.co/profile/tcarmody…
Dear readers: I am in the process of resurrecting the Amazon Chronicles on a new platform, but migrating is taking longer than expected. Please bear with us! We’ll have new newsletters about the Amazon Cinematic-Industrial Universe soon!
Is Amazon just bad at retaining certain kinds of workers, or do they have a really evil, possibly self-destructive (but coherent) strategy? (Also, if Amazon is uniquely bad, what's everyone else's excuse?) amazonchronicles.substack.co…
A note from @tcarmody:
For the last few weeks, I’ve been making big decisions about the future of Amazon Chronicles. I’m sorry I haven’t had more updates, but I had to get that all sorted first. Please expect exciting news (and new posts, etc.) soon.
Aha! I forgot to post the link to my story on Bezos/Amazon’s transition to chair and Andy Jassy’s eventual elevation to CEO. Remember when you could set up RSS to do this for you? GOOD TIMES. Meanwhile, enjoy: amazonchronicles.substack.co…
Amazon is offering custom-made t-shirts as part of a soon-to-be-expanding line of everyday basics. @tcarmody tried to find out where and how these shirts are made, and compare Amazon’s offering to what its competitors have been doing. amazonchronicles.substack.co…
Just published: a new newsletter about today’s Amazon announcement regarding its development plans in & near the city of Detroit.
* What happened with the HQ2 sweepstakes again?
* What’s an “Extra Large Fulfillment Center”?
* Why do cities go bankrupt?
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Circumstantial evidence suggests that it's *possible* (is that hedging enough for you?) that Amazon may take on more projects in Detroit, specifically at the Joe Louis Arena site downtown. Because of its location, this would likely NOT be a fulfillment center, but office/retail.