Tuesday, September 21, 2021

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 We got us an Amazon coming to MadisonCounty. While the press rah-rah's Amazon, Breaking Points looks at the company in a slightly different light. 

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you don't like Amazon, do not support them. Do not opt for the best possible prices and the most ridiculously speedy delivery. Go to Wal Mart or wherever. Starve out Jeff Bezos.

This is not the Colorado Coalfield War. They ain't machinegunning union organizers. This is the 21st Century and these folks were sharp enough to figure it out on the front end.

If you don't want to work for them, don't work for them. I look around and see a whole country filled with youngsters with zero work ethic. The government is pretty much supporting the whole idea of being fed for free, housed for free, medical attention for free.

Somehow or the other lots and lots of Haitians are finding their way en masse to Mexico where they turn up under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. How does that work? Why Del Rio? It's not on the Gulf. There's no international airport, freeway. Are they coming up here to work for Amazon?

Maybe not. But crazier still is that the US government is flying them back to Haiti. Why? Seems to me they're Mexico's problem . . . meanwhile I am supposed to worry, think about, care if Amazon "comes to town." Why?

Don't get me wrong, I want to get bent out of shape about something, but this one isn't working for me.

Anonymous said...

Lol, pretty soon over there in Madison will be neckbeards following 2 ft behind chunky bluehaired gals protesting the boys in blue. Amazon grows all their employees in labs. Woke labs.

Anonymous said...

Vax mandates over there at that woke worker prison but they pay pretty good. And the cool part about this which they will find out like the early days of the tire plant......the locals you will hire early on are scrubs and WILL NOT arrive to work on time ready to work.

EFGAlterEgo said...

If Bloomberg is shilling it bend over and grab your ankles. There will be no lube involved.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry, but I could only listen to the first half of this Union advertisement bullshit.

Not surprised coming from Breaking Points, but this couple spewing their rhetoric opinion against Amazon because ---- they are not unionized.

To say that $15-$18/hour is lower than the industry standard -- tell that to the folks in Canton who will be taking the 1000 jobs at the new facility.

Community totally dependent on Amazon, so that the company can demand and control the entire workforce? Check and see what Nissan three miles down the interstate from the new facility feels about that concept, considering that they employ four times the number of employees at a much higher wage rate.

Community give away the bank in order to lure Amazon to locate? Nobody even knew about Amazon's location to Canton prior to their beginning to pour concrete, and there were no incentives thrown their way to establish that facility there.

Giant monopoloies controlling everything? Again, ask all those folks around Nissan at Canton; and check out the facilities in DeSoto County that would dwarf the Amazon facilities there.

Yes, Amazon appreciates Mississippi's Right to Work laws, as do most every national company that locates here. And obviously these two hacks think that unless you are unionized, you are being exploited and the company is the bad guy for providing a job. Here, a job in a community that could well use 1000 new well paying (for the territory) warehouse positions.

For my money, in the future KF, you can keep the Breaking Points in the bottle - unleashing that genie to spew their unionization is a waste of good space.

Luckyliberal said...

YOU decide...There are several articles beginning in 2017..including one about a homeless shelter for its employees (Remember we now have a SERVICE ECONOMY..NAFTA promoters promised all the High Tech Global Jobs would come here) (Delphi Electric? Milwaukee Tool now Chinese owned, majority made in China)

Amazon Is Opening a Homeless Shelter at Its HQ a Year After Killing a Tax to Help the Homeless. The new philanthropic initiative isn't as heartwarming as it first appears.
Nov 2019 BY JESSICA STILLMAN, CONTRIBUTOR, INC.COM

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/amazon-is-opening-a-homeless-shelter-at-its-hq-a-year-after-killing-a-tax-to-help-homeless.html


'Bezos has no idea we're homeless; I'm not the only one': Amazon worker tells her story. By Chandni G June 22, 2021

Natalie Monarrez, 51, works 12-hour shifts at an Amazon warehouse in NYC. She sleeps in her car, showers at Planet Fitness, charges her phone at Starbucks.

She shared her story in the hopes that other homeless Amazon workers would speak out too.

https://scoop.upworthy.com/bezos-has-no-idea-were-homeless-im-not-the-only-one-amazon-worker-tells-her-story#:~:text=The%20JFK8%20warehouse%20worker%2C%20aged,in%20the%20facility's%20parking%20lot.&text=Natalie%20Monarrez%2C%2051%2C%20works%2012,charger%20her%20phone%20at%20Starbucks.


Video: Jeff Bezos gives Washington governor a tour of homeless shelter attached to Amazon HQ
BY KURT SCHLOSSER on April 19, 2021

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/video-jeff-bezos-gives-washington-governor-tour-homeless-shelter-attached-amazon-hq/

Anonymous said...

Amazon fires its employees via text. Such a caring company!

Anonymous said...

In the Video, the comparison of Amazon is made ro Walmart. This is a 46 page 2006 PDF Thesis written about Livingston Alabama, a small town in one of the poorest counties (Home of University West Alabama)...Who in 1980 when Walmart was growing exponentially thought they wanted & even floated a bond to build the Store for Walmart, believing the hype that it would attract more businesses & Jobs. It details the Mayor's recruitment, declared loyalty, decimation of local owned generational businesses, Promises made, all the while planning for a sudden closing.

That year, in 1997 Wal-Mart managed to sell $1 billion of goods in a single day with approximately 2000 stores.

At the same time, other retailers in Livingston started to close.
First it was the Hub, the clothing store that also sold jewelry & engraved trophies. Then it was Sumter Hardware, The Shoe Rack & Scruggs Drugs. The Village Shop, a clothier for children, went out of business, as did Fabrics & Things & Skinner Furniture. Tinker’s clothing store closed & then the Western Auto.
The people of Livingston understood what was happening. Wal-Mart was
killing downtown. Within TWO years of Wal-Mart opening, Bullock’s – an old-style variety store that sold everything from can openers to ladies’ shoes to hoop cheese to snuff – saw sales drop by nearly 65%. To try to stay afloat, Smith Boyd, who had bought the store with his father in 1976, became a Sears catalog agent, using Bullock’s as a place for people to pick up their orders. He put in a heat transfer
machine & started making custom-designed t-shirts. He briefly sold wigs. But nothing could turn the store around & in 1986, he closed up shop & went to work with his father & brother in the concrete business. Boyd, a mole-like man in glasses who today runs Sumter Theatre & Pizza – the one-screen movie house where a large
popcorn costs $1.65– says that if he had handled his money better, if he had been a shrewder businessman, maybe if he hadn’t extended personal credit lines to two- thirds of his customers (a standard practice of small-town business that SAM WALTON Was staunchly against & NEVER allowed at Wal-Mart), he might have survived.
Boyd, exuding a strain of self-reliance common in these parts, doesn’t think Wal-Mart ran him out of business. But everyone else does. “We turned out to be part of the history Wal-Mart has created in a lot of small towns,” says one resident. “All the
mom-and-pops went under.”

http://barbarakiviat.com › the...PDF
The Town That Wal-Mart Left: How Livingston, Alabama Fought for—and Lost—Its Most Important - Barbara Kiviat

By Barbara Kiviat, Class of 2006
James Stewart, faculty advisor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Bruce Greenwald, faculty advisor, Columbia Business School

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://barbarakiviat.com/the_town_that_wal-mart_left.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj4iMm_kZHzAhUQlmoFHcGLCDcQFnoECAUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3eKm7Ufg9EpWufdZe_Rt_x

Anonymous said...

How Hearst Tried to Stop ‘Citizen Kane’
The newspaper mogul hated the film more than previously thought



Did Hearst’s conspiracy work? Kind of. Thanks to the continuous bad press, the refusal of major chains to carry the movie and one of the greatest Oscar snubs of all time, Citizen Kane lost money at the box office and Welles’ career never reached the heights his first film promised. He had the last laugh, though: Today, his movie is considered a masterpiece—one that changed filmmaking and defines how historians think of Hearst’s own checkered legacy to this day.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-hearst-tried-stop-citizen-kane-180958602/

Anonymous said...

All these people exited that an Amazon is coming to their town need to remember they every town has a post office and a McDonald’s also. It’s not like Tesla moved to your town.

Anonymous said...

Some people would both if their peckers grew. Amazon pays for college tuition many jobs there are a stepping stone…

Anonymous said...

First Nissian, now Amazon, Madison County is your next Hinds in the making you have Canton to the North and Ridgeland to the south, that’s going to choke out Maryland in 20 years

Anonymous said...

I'm so confused. Didn't leftists just vote for monopolistic elitism in the last election? Do they hate Amazon or love that Amazon is exactly what they voted for last November? These people are so strange.

Anonymous said...

I prefer ebay entrepreneurs.

EFGAlterEgo said...

September 21, 2021 at 3:38 PM
Amazon does not have the best deals anymore. Maybe before Mississippi legislature bent the knee to "even the playing field" for brick an mortar, but price check. The only real thing going for them is 2 day delivery. Not to mention the problems with fake products.

Kingfish said...

Usually use Amazon for selection or availability, not price. Now on medical products, they are often cheaper.

Anonymous said...

Why is the same artsy elocutionist writing over half the posts? You can wake me later.

Anonymous said...

Bezo is a Bozo!

Better Than Ever said...

@2:43

Your time must not be worth much. A single site where one can get practically anything, shipped usually on the day it's ordered... where do we sign up?

Ordered a fairly common tool the other day as I could not find it anywhere in the metro area at home depot, lowe's, or otherwise. Local sellers are begging Amazon to take their customers.

The local retailers that get their act together (best buy) will survive. The others should sell while they can.

Bill Dees said...

brick and mortar folks are all voting for Republicans, because isn't this still the 1980s? Grow up. Join the 21st century!


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