Extract from an article in todays Daily Mail about working in an Amazon warehouse :
"And everywhere it kills jobs. Shops employ 47 people for every $10 million (£6 million) in sales, according to research done by a company called ILSR. Amazon employs only 14 people per $10 million of revenue.
In Britain, it turned more than £4.2 billion last year, which is a net loss of 23,000 jobs. And even the remaining jobs, the hard, badly-paid jobs in Amazon’s warehouses, are hardly future-proof.
Amazon has just bought an automated sorting system called Kiva for $775 million (£479 million). How many retail jobs, of any description, will there be left in ten years’ time?
It is taxes, of course, that pay for the roads on which Amazon’s delivery trucks drive, and the schools in which its employees are educated.
Taxes that all its workers pay, and that, it emerged in 2012, Amazon tends not to pay.
On UK sales of £4.2 billion in 2012, it paid £3.2 million in corporation tax. In 2006, it transferred its UK business to Luxembourg and reclassified its UK operation as simply an ‘order fulfilment’ business.
The Luxembourg office employs 380 people. The UK operation employs 21,000. You do the sums".
The article also indicates Amazon looking to get into selling supermarket type products so scrap a few more thousand businesses and jobs.
Whilst the founder of Amazon is a smart guy I think having more people operating shops and employing three times as many people is far better for the UK and the economy that having Amazon squirrel their money overseas.
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