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Amazon has thousands of employees who listen to users' recorded commands to improve the algorithms of voice assistant Alexa. Of course, they do get to hear a lot of sensitive material that way.

Online customers who are drunk spend 440 dollars every year on purchases they don't remember the day after. In the US alone, the industry makes an annual 48 billion dollars from that, most of it for Amazon.

Due to the shift towards home delivery, traditional supermarkets will soon be in serious trouble, Nils Van Dam of Duval Union Consulting predicts. He estimates between 30 to 40 % of supermarkets will have to close in the coming decade, due to a lack of revenue.

Store chains pay far more taxes than internet platforms, which is untenable - according to Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard. He is therefore in favour of a tax that will bring an end to this fiscal imbalance, which is tabled in France but rejected for the whole EU.

Amazon has made a strategic U-turn away from manufacturing its own exclusive products and having them made by third parties instead. The e-commerce giant has already closed over 220 exclusive deals.

Amazon continues to amaze: in an attempt to reduce costs in the 'last mile', the e-commerce giant is looking into the possibility of using public transport to deliver its parcels. Or how even one of the world's most advanced companies sometimes can benefit of old-fashioned solutions...

Amazon is releasing a self-propelled delivery robot: the Amazon Scout is a small vehicle of about knee-height and it will soon be rolling around in a Washington neighbourhood, making home deliveries to Prime members.