I think the key to getting through this will be to change how we shop - find other suppliers for things. I've found lots of smaller suppliers near me I didn't even know existed a week ago.
Also I'm not using Amazon anymore. The were charging astronomical prices for food e.g. £17 for a bag of crisps the other day. And the way they are treating their staff in this crisis is monstrous.
Also, given Coronavirus spreads on surfaces, if Amazon creates an environment where loads of its staff are infected then it could be becoming a delivery mechanism for the virus.
‘Petrified’ Amazon workers left in ‘300 Strong Crowds’
24 Mar 2020
Amazon workers are ‘petrified’ of being infected by COVID-19 after being left to work in packed warehouses, without hand sanitiser or personal protection equipment.
People at fulfilment centres across the UK report being left in crowds of 200-300 people and having to reuse equipment multiple times with no hand sanitiser available.
Workers say water dispensers are used over and over again without being disinfected, dirty canteen tables with used tissues on them, team leaders giving feedback without staying two metres away and no sanitiser or alcohol wipes to clean equipment.
Mick Rix, GMB National Officer, said:
“We are so angry about this - these workers are petrified of catching and spreading COVID-19 and rightly so.
“Amazon is blatantly disregarding the two metre social distancing rules, there are no masks, no sanitiser and with the vast amount of people working there there’s no way of keeping them from getting ill.
“It’s impossible for Amazon workers to keep a safe distance from each other and hit their productivity targets.
“Amazon has a duty of care - not just to its own workers but to the whole of the British public."
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