delivery services

Amazon said on Monday it plans to hire 75,000 more people for jobs ranging from warehouse staff to delivery drivers as the coronavirus epidemic kept Americans locked in their homes and demand for online orders surged. With shoppers clearing out shelves in fear of quarantines or product shortages, retailers are racing to keep food and …

Amazon’s grocery delivery services will no longer accept any new customers, at a time when locked down shoppers desperately look for alternatives to brick and mortar grocery stores. Anyone who enrolls beginning Monday will instead be added to a waitlist — with an indefinite wait time. Prior to the announcement Sunday, Amazon customers have complained …

Amazon is suspending shipping on non-Amazon packages as it struggles to keep up with customer orders during the coronavirus pandemic. The test program, known as Amazon Shipping, will be paused in June because the e-commerce juggernaut needs to shift its workers toward fulfilling its own orders, the Wall Street Journal reported. “We regularly look at …

Amazon has reportedly threatened to fire warehouse workers repeatedly caught breaking social-distancing rules aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus. The e-commerce behemoth recently told warehouse staffers that they’ll get a written warning for their first violation of the guidelines, which instruct workers to stay six feet apart from each other, according to CNBC. …

FedEx said on Friday it would slash its chief executive’s pay and draw down $1.5 billion from a credit facility as parcel delivery services take a hit from coronavirus-led lockdowns across the globe. The company also plans to tap debt markets to bolster its reserves as the pandemic compounds its own troubles, including integration issues …