Amazon – making hay by doing “a bit less evil”

Amazon has had quite a lot of bad press lately – mostly related to paying its staff badly and working them really hard, selling fake brands, wasting packaging and chasing handouts from municipalities to attracts it to build offices in a particular location. But others in the Climate Change brigade have other reasons for hating it – it ships goods around the world, using burning up massive amounts of carbon in the process, in order to bring Prime members its finest selection of goods. This week Amazon has topped off a number of prior announcements to address this, with a further one, that is really data driven – it calls it Amazon Day – and it involves Prime members getting…