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E-commerce

August 2024

  • View from above of the interior of a large warehouse, showing huge stacks of boxes

    Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years

    GMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed by the Observer
  • Street scene with shop front on the right and tram on the left

    William Hill owner’s turnaround plan falters as losses widen

    Gambling group Evoke – formerly 888 – reports losses of £147m after taking £72m hit from US market retreat
    • Clear for takeoff? Amazon gets green light to test-fly delivery drones in UK

    • London Stock Exchange denies lowering standards to win Shein IPO

    • Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
      The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

July 2024

  • Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference  in Nashville

    Bitcoin price hits six-week high after Trump backs cryptocurrency

  • Callum Cant

    Amazon is moving heaven and earth to beat back unions – but it’s losing ground fast

    Callum Cant
  • Slot machines

    Labour urged to follow through on Tories’ promised £100m gambling levy

  • Donat Retif poses for a photo with his hands in his pockets in front of a wall with a photo of a holiday destination

    Observer business profile
    ‘It’s been raining for ever. People are desperate to get outside’: the boss of loveholidays braces for a boom

  • Amazon workers in Coventry lose union recognition ballot by handful of votes

  • ‘Let’s make history!’: Amazon staff at UK warehouse vote on union recognition

  • First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Inside the fight to unionise Amazon warehouses

  • Jeff Bezos to sell $5bn of Amazon shares after stock hits record high

  • What do Rudy Giuliani’s Amazon purchases reveal? Appallingly bad taste – and even worse morals

    Arwa Mahdawi

June 2024

  • a worker walks alongside rows of packages piled to the ceiling of a giant warehouse

    ‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills

  • The Amazon building in Coventry.

    GMB starts ballot process to be recognised at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse

  • Thibaud Hug de Larauze stands looking off camera on the corner of a street in a photographic portrait, framed by two old buildings

    Observer business profile
    ‘It should be a right to fix your phone’: the boss of booming secondhand tech firm Back Market

  • View from above of an Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in Wales with rows of stacked shelves

    Independent UK retailers claim £1bn damages against Amazon

May 2024

  • Damien Hirst with a painting from The Currency collection.

    At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed

  • Amazon Labor Union signage

    ‘You feel like you’re in prison’: workers claim Amazon’s surveillance violates labor law

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