Since start of May Amazon fully stopped buying advs at Google. More to come.

Amazon says its median employee pay was $28,446 last year.

That data, disclosed Wednesday in Amazon’s annual proxy report, is a reminder that while the technologists, business managers and marketers at Amazon headquarters can make more than $100,000, in most of the country, Amazon is a blue-collar logistics company where workers take home far less.

In Seattle, Amazon’s more than 45,000 employees are paid an average of more than $110,000, according to an analysis of individual worker data posted to job review site Glassdoor. The median, or midpoint, of Amazon’s 566,000 individual employee salaries worldwide stood far lower.

At Amazon’s dozens of logistics depots around the U.S., entry-level work generally starts at between $11 and $16 an hour, according to Amazon job postings and Glassdoor reviews

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-workers-median-pay-in-2017-28446/

On free business and invisible market hand

While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars. The Failing N.Y. Times reports that “the size of the company’s lobbying staff has ballooned,” and that...

I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!

Now as Trump is after them we can be calm.

Mode on advertising

Amazon pledging to become an “ad platform leader” for advertisers that’s capable of “best-in-class service” and “strategic consultation,” according to several marketing and agency executives who have heard its pitch.

Expected ads income rise is 40% in each of next 4-5 years, with simultaneous shrink of income for Google.

Amazon go after business delivery market

Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses, positioning it to directly compete with United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.

Dubbed “Shipping with Amazon,” or SWA, the new service will entail the tech giant picking up packages from businesses and shipping them to consumers. Amazon expects to roll out the new delivery service in Los Angeles in coming weeks with third-party merchants that sell goods via its website, according to the people. Amazon then aims to expand the service to more cities as soon as this year, some of the people say.

Amazon is planning to undercut UPS and FedEx on pricing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-whole-foods-uses-scorecards-to-punish-employees-2018-1

I guess we're now at the punitive stage of capitalism. Sure, you can be replaced, but not before your entire dignified existence has been destroyed

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-warehouses-poor-cities/552020/?utm_source=feed Amazon warehouse lowered the median household income in San Bernardino

Now they can track how much time employees spend in the bathroom!

The price of the monthly Prime membership for new members increased from $10.99 to $12.99 on January 19, 2018. The price of the discounted Prime Student monthly plan for new sign-ups increased from $5.49 to $6.49 on January 19, 2018.

Existing monthly Prime and Prime Student members will pay the new price for renewals happening after February 18, 2018.

Annual Prime members continue to pay $99. Annual Prime Student members continue to pay $49.

Rumors are that Amazon will make around 4-5 months pause before hiking by 20-25% annual prices also. Such way they get more annual paying members.

Amazon going into ad business

Ad industry sources also say Amazon is stepping up hiring for its advertising division, especially in the New York area.

Most of the conversations are focusing on new ad opportunities on Amazon's e-commerce search and video products, sources say.

The company is also looking to sell advertising beyond Amazon sites and products. For example, a source with knowledge about the situation says it is working with third-party mobile advertising companies such as Kargo to pair advertising on television and on mobile screens.

Although Amazon doesn't break out revenues from its advertising business, eMarketer estimates Amazon was the fifth-largest digital advertiser in the U.S. in terms of revenue this year. Still, it makes up a little more than 2 percent of the market. It's leagues below industry leaders Google and Facebook, which take home more than 70 percent combined