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> The company shut down in the country after a court ordered it to cease delivering “nonessential” items during the pandemic. Here in India, Amazon has been re
by d3nj4l 6y ago
> The company shut down in the country after a court ordered it to cease delivering “nonessential” items during the pandemic.
Here in India, Amazon has been required by law to sell and ship only essential items, nationwide from 25 March until 3 May, and in all "Red Zones" (which include nearly all urban centers) through today. They've happily complied, and in fact stopped taking orders on non-essential items before the legal requirement kicked in. That just shows the only reason they've refused to do that in France is because they don't want to give a win to labour organisations. What an awful company.
- tinus_hn 6y agoDid the Indian government also levy fines of around $100000 per item if only 1 item was categorized as essential but later turned out not to be?
- josefx 6y agoThe French court explicitly used Amazons own product categories for its whitelist. Amazon would have held the full definition of whitelisted items in its hands the whole time if it decided to comply.
- wlesieutre 6y agoAmazon’s product categorization is not particularly reliable. For example, if you go to Electronics -> Headphones -> Earbuds and sort by price, this book comes up: https://www.amazon.com/Wentworth-Letter-Joseph-Smith-ebook/dp/B0084A76P0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1589724266&s=electronics&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Wentworth-Letter-Joseph-Smith-ebook/d... Although visiting it by that link then shows it as a book, so I’m a bit lost.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoAmazon's categorization system is entirely broken. It's quite sad that on of the largest companies in the world has one of the worst product filtering systems I've seen. Hell, they even remove results when sorting by price low to high, but not high to low. They're Also missing thousands of sub categories and filters. Sellers even have the free reign to deliberately mislist their items, what good that does I have no idea. EBay suffers similar problems but is more consistent witha mostly functional sorting system.