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I'm assuming you didn't read the article? Banning the sale of non-essential goods is mentioned multiple times. >Amazon.com Inc. threatened to stop activity at

I'm assuming you didn't read the article? Banning the sale of non-essential goods is mentioned multiple times. >Amazon.com Inc. threatened to stop activity at its fulfillment centers in France after a court order banned the sale of non-essential goods, concluding the retailer isn’t doing enough to protect staff from the Covid-19 pandemic. And 24 hours to implement improved health procedures? Without being told which ones specifically to implement? There's basically no limit to improving health procedures. They could go as far as hourly temperature checks, glove changes after every package, no more then 10 people in the entire warehouse, etc etc. And if they don't go far enough (according to the courts, in 2 years when all the appeals are finally figured out), then they could be fined 1.1 million a day since tomorrow.

onli 7y ago
I did. My understanding is that they are banned now from selling non-essential goods as long as - or at least, because of - the proper health requirements are not fulfilled. The issue is not that they sold non-essential items in the first place. This is not a conflict like with gamestop misdeclaring their brick-and-mortar store activity as essential. The ban is the effect of other ascribed transgressions, the non-essential sales are not the cause. I should have written: "They were free to ship whatever they want ...".
bhelkey 7y ago
Just FYI, the guidelines for this form mention: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
benhurmarcel 7y ago
This article is wrong about that; they are free to ship non-essential items as long as they demonstrate that they protect their workers' health. https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-la-justice-impose-a-amazon-de-reduire-drastiquement-son-activite-1194834 https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-l... >But the American e-commerce giant was condemned to "restrict the activities of [its] warehouses to receiving goods, preparing and shipping orders for food, hygiene and medical products", "until the company has carried out, with the participation of employee representatives, an assessment of the occupational risks inherent in the Covid-19 epidemic in all of its distribution centres and the resulting measures".

onli 7y ago

I did. My understanding is that they are banned now from selling non-essential goods as long as - or at least, because of - the proper health requirements are not fulfilled. The issue is not that they sold non-essential items in the first place. This is not a conflict like with gamestop misdeclaring their brick-and-mortar store activity as essential. The ban is the effect of other ascribed transgressions, the non-essential sales are not the cause. I should have written: "They were free to ship whatever they want ...".

bhelkey 7y ago

Just FYI, the guidelines for this form mention: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

benhurmarcel 7y ago

This article is wrong about that; they are free to ship non-essential items as long as they demonstrate that they protect their workers' health. https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-la-justice-impose-a-amazon-de-reduire-drastiquement-son-activite-1194834 https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-l... >But the American e-commerce giant was condemned to "restrict the activities of [its] warehouses to receiving goods, preparing and shipping orders for food, hygiene and medical products", "until the company has carried out, with the participation of employee representatives, an assessment of the occupational risks inherent in the Covid-19 epidemic in all of its distribution centres and the resulting measures".