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year | business source |
| 2008 | Amazon sells 72 items per second in the world. | Capital |
| 2008 | Amazon.com is the world's largest Internet retailer. | Bloomberg |
| 2008 | Amazon.com sold a record of 6,3 million items in the world on the December 15, 2008. | Les Echos |
| 2008 | Amazon's internet websites had an audience of 159 million visits in October 2008 (comScore Media Metrix). | Capital |
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| year name | photo position; compensation source |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2008 | | The employees of Amazon.co.uk are filmed by surveillance cameras during their work. They have two pauses of 15 and 20 minutes per day and must ask the permission to go to the toilets. The hourly wage is 9% higher than the legal minimum. For each day off because of disease, even with a doctor's certificate, the employee receives a point of penalty. After 6 points, the employee is laid off. “The largest online retailer in the United Kingdom for the period of Christmas pushes his employees to work seven days out of seven and threatens them with layoff if they fall sick” wrote the Sunday Times.: United Kingdom | 01net.com |
| 2007 | | Amazon offers to get paid as low as $0.005 to complete tasks posted on its Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Wage is usually paid in Amazon gifts. "Amazon.com collects a fee of 10 percent on top of what Requesters pay to have tasks completed. For example, if a HIT pays $0.20, Amazon Mechanical Turk collects $0.02. The minimum commission charged is $0.005 per HIT.": United States of America | Documentary |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
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| year | | sales | income | | | source |
| 2008 |
| 24,5 | 0 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2008 |
| 19,2 | 0,64 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2007 |
| 14,8 | 0,48 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2006 |
| 10,71 | 0,19 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2005 |
| 8,49 | 0,36 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2004 |
| 6,92 | 0,06 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2003 |
| 5,26 | 0,04 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2002 |
| 3,93 | -0,15 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
| 3,12 | -0,57 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2000 |
| 2,76 | -1,41 | | | billion US$ | |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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| year | dubious practice : image source |
| 2004 | Arguable partnership: Croix-Rouge : collecte de dons pour les victimes du tsunami: value: Humanitaire; | AFP |
| 2004 | slogan: Amazon and you're done.; | |
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