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Amazon is after your fingerprints with Amazon One. The retail giant not only wants to make you pay in stores by literally waving your hand, but will also accompany you to the office and the football stadium.

Prime Day, Amazon's annual bargain festival, may start this year on 13 October. For a moment it was feared that the two-day festival, with high discounts and exclusive deals, would not take place at all due to the corona crisis, but now there seems to be a date.

Amazon is recruiting 100,000 new warehouse workers, as the online retailer takes 100 additional logistics hubs into operation in the US. Jeff Bezos' company is also looking for as many as 33,000 office and technology employees.

The British competition watchdog CMA has agreed to Amazon's acquisition of a 16 % share in Deliveroo. The deal was already signed in May 2019, but the approval was delayed for twenty months because of competition concerns.

Amazon Fresh, the online giant's grocery service, is now available free of charge to Prime-members in London. The service will be rolled out across the United Kingdom by the end of this year, as the coronavirus creates momentum for online food sales.

Amazon is attacking the supermarket landscape with several concepts at the same time: after the growth of home delivery during the corona crisis, the cash-less Amazon Go concept is expanding further, while "regular" supermarkets are also being added.

Amazon is putting two billion dollars in a climate fund that the retailer plans to use for investing in 'clean' technologies. In doing so, the e-commerce giant wants to offset its huge ecological footprint, which appears difficult to reduce.