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Doug Herrington, CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores speaks during the Delivering the future conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Oct. 9, 2024. (Seth Herald/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Amazon unveils AI to help delivery drivers find packages faster

October 9, 2024 at 4:27 p.m.

Called Vision Assisted Package Retrieval and in development since 2020, the tool will be deployed in 1,000 Amazon vans next year and will shorten the typical delivery route by about...

An Amazon.com delivery driver carries boxes into a van outside of a distribution facility on Feb. 2, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. Amazon.com shoppers in the U.S. spent less per order during the first 32 hours of the annual Prime Day sale than the previous two years, according to Numerator,

Amazon Prime Day 2021 is big but no blowout as shoppers spend less per order

June 22, 2021 at 2:28 p.m.

Amazon.com shoppers in the U.S. spent less per order during the first 32 hours of the annual Prime Day sale than the previous two years, according to Numerator, suggesting shoppers...

Supporters and members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union demonstrate March 13, 2021, outside the warehouse where Amazon workers are voting whether to join the union in Bessemer, Alabama. Amazon is facing increasing labor unrest in the United States.

‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide.

March 22, 2021 at 1:49 p.m.

Inspired by the high-profile campaign to unionize an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Alabama, workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California have begun exploring ways to form unions...

Employees work at an Amazon warehouse in Hawthorne, California. Many Amazon workers struggle to pay the bills.

‘I don’t see how a big company like Amazon can be so greedy.’ E-commerce king turns middle-class warehouse career into a McJob.

December 18, 2020 at 10:07 p.m.

Amazon.com job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career websites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health...

Marie Steele works Oct. 8, 2020, at Amazon's Shakopee, Minn., fulfillment center, during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ahead of the holidays, Amazon is hiring some employees with a $3,000 signing bonus. Longtime workers who got only turkey vouchers are upset.

November 24, 2020 at 2:28 p.m.

Amazon.com is doling out hiring bonuses as high as $3,000 to make sure it has enough people to squeak through the busy holiday shopping season. That's stoking resentment among existing...

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Amazon unveils AI to help delivery drivers find packages faster

Amazon Prime Day 2021 is big but no blowout as shoppers spend less per order

‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide.

‘I don’t see how a big company like Amazon can be so greedy.’ E-commerce king turns middle-class warehouse career into a McJob.

Ahead of the holidays, Amazon is hiring some employees with a $3,000 signing bonus. Longtime workers who got only turkey vouchers are upset.

Amazon plans to put 1,000 warehouses in neighborhoods

Amazon plans to put 1,000 warehouses in neighborhoods

Amazon considers pulling ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ from video service

Amazon focus on essentials sows panic, confusion among merchants

That $400 bottle of hand sanitizer is very hard to police