[echelon]

Will they, really? Their workers would not work at Amazon if they had other choices.

The real problem is that there is no Amazon delivery and logistics equivalent. Workers would leave for it. There would be price competition on wages.

Perhaps antitrust split of Amazon should divide the company down the middle in each state, creating two logistics and delivery companies nationwide, evenly and randomly splitting their assets.

[b9a2cab5]

There are plenty of retail jobs. If you haven't seen the news recently, there's a record shortage and large wage increases happening in that entire sector. The reason people still work Amazon is because Amazon pays better than the competition. For example, a lot of restaurant workers have left that sector for better choices. You don't see that happening in Amazon but I would think that workers in both sectors are somewhat overlapping (unskilled labor).

[supermatt]

Im not sure where you have been for the last year and a half, but a lot of retail workers and restaurant workers have been laid off or suspended on reduced pay. Shops were empty, restaurants were empty. Thats still mostly the case. Thats why there is a shortage.

Its those same companies that laid people off that are now trying to tempt them back with increased wages. Chipotle, for example.

[namdnay]

> Shops were empty, restaurants were empty. Thats still mostly the case. Thats why there is a shortage.

Why is there a shortage of labour if restaurants and shops are still mostly empty?

I think the real reason is that people took the opportunity (or were forced to financially) to try other careers.

[supermatt]

there is only a shortage of people willing to go work for the same companies that shit on them when covid happened.

[b9a2cab5]

My local Chipotle is advertising $17.50/h wages and $750 signing bonuses. My local Amazon starts at $19/h. The market for entry level unskilled labor has never been better in the last decade.

Maybe you live in Europe or another country where growth is stagnant?

[Invictus0]

When was the last time you stepped outside? The shops and restaurants are not empty anywhere in the country.

[supermatt]

I keep feeling companies should only be permitted to operate in a single trade category.

What we call 'anti-competitive' behaviour now is basically down to deep pockets being able to subsidize projects unrelated to the core business (whatever the hell that is).

[goodpoint]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)