Even as Revenues Grow, Amazon to Lay off 14,000. Why? AI & Corporate Efficiency. Walmart and Others Toot Similar Horn by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2025 • 176 Comments Revenue growth without employment growth. But Amazon spent $78 billion on capex in 2024 and more in 2025. So companies that get this cash hire more people than Amazon sheds?
Sign of Tight Labor Market, Strength of Ecommerce: Amazon to Hire 250,000 for Holidays, up from 150,000 Last Year, Boost Wages, Offer Sign-on Bonuses by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2023 • 48 Comments While fewer and fewer Americans head to the malls.
Amazon Makes Big Mess Afterhours. Intel Reports Fiasco but Mass-Layoffs Boost Battered Stock. Apple Hangs on Amid “Challenging and Volatile Macroeconomic Backdrop” by Wolf Richter • Oct 27, 2022 • 112 Comments One heck of an earnings season for tech and social media companies so far.
Amazon to Close 4 of its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Work-from-Home, after Closing 44 Warehouses, Halting Construction on 7 Office Towers by Wolf Richter • Sep 29, 2022 • 124 Comments The giant’s footprint reduction to cut costs sinks Commercial Real Estate.
Why Delivery Giants Walmart, Amazon, FedEx & UPS even Deal with Collapsing EV Startups: EV SPAC Canoo is the Latest by Wolf Richter • Jul 12, 2022 • 194 Comments Scaring legacy automakers into finally producing electric cargo vans is like pulling teeth.
WHOOSH, Go Stocks, Make Mess. Amazon Leads. Biggest Stocks Fall Apart. Crappy April. Terrible First 4 Months. ARKK now -70% by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2022 • 392 Comments But the mayhem started beneath the surface in Feb 2021.
Amazon Issues Another “Callable” 40-Year Bond: Buyers Beware. Have a Look at the Prior Deals by Wolf Richter • Apr 11, 2022 • 137 Comments What’s good for Amazon is not good for the gander.
The Costs of Surviving in Ecommerce by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2019 • 94 Comments Ecommerce Knocked it Out of the Ballpark this Holiday Shopping Season, But Investments by Retailers Are Huge & Will Get Huger.
How Amazon Gains Control & Domination by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2019 • 123 Comments Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How Amazon Gains Control & Domination by Wolf Richter • Dec 22, 2019 • 123 Comments Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
