Big event! Employees of Amazon, Walmart, Target and other companies launched a joint strike

On May 7, Amazon confirmed that an employee at its warehouse in northwestern Illinois died of COVID-19.

It is reported that the employee was 50 years old and died on April 18. He worked at the MDW8 warehouse in Waukegan, Illinois, as a night shift picker responsible for picking and delivering goods from the shelves.

At present, it is unclear how the employee was infected with the new coronavirus pneumonia. Amazon said that the company learned that the employee tested positive for the new coronavirus on March 24, and the employee had no symptoms when he last worked in the warehouse on March 19.

Shopify recently launched a new shopping app called Shop.

It is reported that the program "brings together" merchants supported by Shopify. Consumers can view and track every order of Shopify merchants in the application. Shop also allows users to follow stores and purchase products directly from the program.

In addition, Shopify does not use Shop as a shopping search engine, but adopts a store-first search algorithm. When a user searches for a store through Shop, a list of stores that match the search will appear.

Foreign media said that this will create a new e-commerce market opportunity for Shopify. Unlike Amazon, its business model effectively avoids competition among platform merchants. However, the Shop application is currently limited to Android and iOS, and the web version of the program has not been released.

Recently, Amazon announced that it would allow tens of thousands of employees to work from home until October 2.

Amazon sent a message to tens of thousands of employees in downtown Seattle and Bellevue, saying that the company will allow these employees who have been working from home since early March to continue working from home until October 2.

An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the news and said the company is working hard and investing heavily to ensure the safety of employees who come to the office. The announcement of continued work-from-home orders could leave one of Seattle's busiest neighborhoods idle for another five months.

Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky also said that overall, the company was able to continue to make progress while employees were working from home, but specific work such as video production and development of new hardware device functions would slow down due to not collaborating in the office.

It is reported that workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, FedEx, Instacart and Target recently held a joint strike to protest against poor safety working conditions as the epidemic continues.

It is reported that these actions were organized by groups within different companies, but were uniformly scheduled on International Labor Day. These groups encouraged customers to boycott the above-mentioned stores and services on Labor Day, and they also called on the above-mentioned companies to provide better safety protection measures and equipment.

Amazon organizers said thousands of employees across the country participated in the action. Amazon employees also called on the company to "transparently and honestly disclose the number of cases in its warehouses" in response to Amazon's refusal to disclose the number of employees diagnosed with the new coronavirus. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strike.

Cross-Border Link recently released its 2019 annual report, and the company achieved full-year revenue of 17.874 billion yuan.

It is reported that this revenue fell by 16.99% year-on-year. In 2019, Cross-border Link lost 2.708 billion yuan. The annual report shows that the reason for its loss is that its subsidiary Global Easybuy's sales business in the European and American markets declined due to the unstable international environment. At the same time, various impairment provisions were made in 2019, totaling about 2.87 billion yuan.

During the reporting period, Global Easybuy's revenue was approximately RMB 8.506 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 31.44%. The inventory balance was RMB 1.473 billion, a significant decrease from the end of 2018, and the inventory problem was improved. Paton's revenue was RMB 3.439 billion, a year-on-year increase of 0.62%. Cross-border's own brand revenue was RMB 6.7 billion, and its revenue share was the same as the previous year.

During the reporting period, the revenue of Cross-Border E-commerce's cross-border export business was 11.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 26.27%.

Source: Cross-border K Circle