[seneca]

This strikes me as a tone deaf move for Amazon. They're increasingly losing consumer confidence and are starting, anecdotally at least, to be regarded as closer to a flea market or eBay than a trustworthy retailer. They really need to shore up the issues with tainted supplies in their core retail business before I would ever consider them for something as sensitive as pharmaceuticals, regardless of how much they promise its handled differently.

[kgin]

I don't think this is a common perception outside of super a super plugged-in crowd that reads tech news.

[seneca]

I'm not sure that's true. In 2019 there were many articles in mainstream news outlets about Amazon's counterfeit problem, including a major (front page, I believe?) article from the Wall Street Journal [0].

They also received major negative publicity about the "Solar Eclipse Glasses" they sold that damages many people's eyes in 2017 [1]. I think it has cooled as a news topic, given the plethora of topics in 2020, but (again, anecdotally) I don't think the opinion has restored. At least it hasn't in my social and family groups.

0: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its...

1: https://fortune.com/2017/08/14/amazon-refund-solar-eclipse-g...