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Is Amazon primed for coronavirus?

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How the tech giant is responding to the pandemic, and what it says about Amazon as a company. FEATURING Jason Del Rey @DelRey LINKS Amazon reopened a NYC warehouse a day after a worker tested positive for coronavirus Amazon is banning its warehouses from stocking nonessential items during the coronavirus pandemic Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Intel.

0:04.0

Where do world-changing ideas get their start?

0:06.8

At Intel, it starts with real solutions,

0:09.5

and real solutions start with exceptional engineering. The quantum computing revolution, the next

0:16.2

generation of AI experts, the renewable energy grid, early diagnosis for cancer. The examples are countless. The impacts are endless, but the

0:27.0

foundation is always the same. It starts with Intel. Learn more at Intel.com slash stories.

0:37.0

The Schools closed, stores closed, stores closed, businesses closed, people staying home.

0:49.7

In a global pandemic, somehow one tech giant is kind of having a moment.

0:55.0

Empty store shelves have led to a massive surge in Amazon orders for grocery items, cleaning products, and basic staples.

1:02.0

Amazon.

1:03.0

The company has been shipping products to people living in self-isolation

1:07.0

across the country.

1:08.0

And for some products, it's been struggling to keep up with demand,

1:12.0

not to mention to maintain fair prices.

1:15.0

We need to protect consumers and that includes shielding them from scams and price gouging,

1:21.0

which I called on Amazon to do. No one should be allowed to reap a

1:26.0

windfall from fear and human suffering. And then there's the legitimate worry

1:31.3

about the health of warehouse workers.

1:33.7

Well now to another developing story, an Amazon warehouse worker in New York City testing

1:39.2

positive for coronavirus.

1:41.2

So how is the world's largest online store dealing with the global pandemic?

1:46.0

That's today on the show. I'm Ariel Zum Ross. This is reset. Jason Del Rey, Senior Commerce Correspondent for Recode,

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