On April 1, Amazon will be permanently closing some of its Amazon Go stores in major cities on both coasts:
The locations include two stores in Seattle, two stores in New York City and four in San Francisco.
"Like any physical retailer, we periodically assess our portfolio of stores and make optimization decisions along the way. In this case, we've decided to close a small number of Amazon Go stores in Seattle, New York City and San Francisco," an Amazon spokesperson told FOX Business in a Saturday email.
[...] The e-commerce giant is still opening new Amazon Go stores.
"We remain committed to the Amazon Go format, operate more than 20 Amazon Go stores across the U.S., and will continue to learn which locations and features resonate most with customers as we keep evolving our Amazon Go stores," the spokesperson said.
Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by mendax on Thursday March 09, @03:55AM (6 children)
This is off-topic and a bit of a rant. Moderate accordingly. I can take it.
I am troubled by the fact that the article cited here was published by Fox Business. I already knew about these store closures but learned about it from another, more reputable source. The truth about Rupert Murdoch's media enterprises has finally started to come out thanks to the discovery given by Fox News, et al. to the plaintiffs in the libel suit filed by Dominion, the voting machine company, against Fox News. It has now been proven that Murdoch's companies have no qualms about lying to their readers and viewers about anything in order to prevent losing market share. His companies produce right-wing propaganda and I want no truck in that. I did not RTFA because I do not wish to give any element of Murdoch's media empire any of my custom.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by janrinok on Thursday March 09, @06:12AM (4 children)
If you don't read it then you cannot point out the flaws, propaganda or lies in its content. If it is twisting facts that you have verified from other sources then many of us would appreciate that being pointed out to us. The quotations made by the original source appear to be unchanged although it is possible that they have been cherry-picked to support a particular view.
Different community members use different sources for their submissions. Ideally each story would come complete with at least two submissions each giving an alternative point of view - we are grateful when we just get even one! We are not a news service; we are hoping to create discussions. Your views would be a valuable contribution to those discussions.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Thursday March 09, @07:16AM (3 children)
I didn't see any claims that this article was in any way untrue, but rather an assertion that FOX shouldn't be sent traffic when the same information is available through more reputable sites.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Interesting) by janrinok on Thursday March 09, @09:15AM (2 children)
We didn't choose the source - it came with the submission but the submitter did provide an alternative source stating where he found it:
The problem is that everybody has a different opinion on which sites are reputable. We did verify that the quoted statements were made and reported accurately.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by TheGratefulNet on Friday March 10, @04:09PM (1 child)
no, there is NO disagreement about the reputability of anything FOX.
get real. this is not a both sides thing.
fox is guilty of lying, they are in the business of lying and entertaining. 'news' was never their goal. mind control of their dumb viewers is their goal.
at this point, they are state actors for russia. doubt it? go examine closer which side they always take.
dont ever quote fox here. please. we're all smarter than that and dont give me this both sides bullshit. you know that's a crock.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday March 10, @05:01PM
What they printed in this instance was correct, we verified it against other sources. I have already provided additional sources. There are lots more.
Please give me a list of sources that are acceptable to every American.
(Score: 1, Troll) by ChrisMaple on Thursday March 09, @08:34AM
And a trustworthy news source is ... ??? Lying on television news reports has been standard at least since Walter Cronkite treasonously made up stories about Vietnam.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09, @06:55AM
...And nothing of value was lost.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ChrisMaple on Thursday March 09, @08:39AM (1 child)
It looks like Amazon is closing stores in areas where leftist politicians attack Amazon. AOC's vitriolic opposition to Amazon in NYC has been on the air a bit, recently.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday March 09, @02:37PM
As some like to point out about Musk, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Troll) by DadaDoofy on Thursday March 09, @01:24PM