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<div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*EBCDhOxio_2QetBA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="c069">How can Amazon justify this especially at a time when this pandemic is causing so much economic worry for ordinary people and when the company is making so an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/15/amazon-lockdown-bonanza-jeff-bezos-fortune-109bn-coronavirus">unprecedented</a> amount of money as a result of the pandemic?</p><p id="190b">Amazon previously retained 92% of its retail profit — now it wants 97%? If this is a response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Amazon is being extremely unfair in wanting to keep such a great proportion of referral sales. Poor show.</p><p id="1174">Amazon comes across as nothing but greedy, cynical and self-interested.</p><p id="2147">Being capitalistic does not mean a company has to have no moral conscience. There is a choice being made here. Are we to believe that these cuts had to be made in order to finance a trifling £2 more per hour for warehouse workers? Honestly, what possible justification can there be.</p><p id="ddd6">It’s possible that the changes to the affiliate programme were decided before the coronavirus outbreak. In which case, why were they carried through? I cannot begin to fathom what it must be like to be facing, as many are, financial hardship or even ruin because of your company’s greed.</p><p i # Options d="d4f4">I would seriously boycott Amazon were I not so invested. As it is I have cancelled my Amazon Fresh subscription and will be looking at what else I can let go of in the coming days and weeks.</p><p id="f919">Disgusted,</p><p id="9d8c">Marla Bishop</p><p id="c261">Copy of letter from Amazon UK Country Manager</p><div id="a312" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/copy-of-doug-gurr-letter-410e48bd708d"> <div> <div> <h2>Copy of Doug Gurr Letter</h2> <div><h3>Dear valued customer, Following the announcement of the extended lockdown, we’re all coming to realise that life will…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="3f79"><i>©️marla bishop 2020</i></p><p id="c401">Marla Bishop is a relationship coach and writer: On medium.com she is the creator of <a href="https://medium.com/lilith">Lilith</a> and an editor of The <a href="https://medium.com/the-bad-influence">Bad Influence</a>, The <a href="https://medium.com/the-get-fit-gang">Get Fit Gang</a>, and The <a href="https://medium.com/narrative">Narrative</a>. She lives in London UK with her husband and youngest two children. You can follow her <a href="https://twitter.com/tulipchickuk">here</a>.</p></article></body>

An Open Response to Amazon’s UK Country Manager

He emailed Amazon customers today claiming Amazon is doing all they can to help in the pandemic

Dear Doug Gurr

Please do not underestimate the intelligence of your customers.

You claim the company is supporting “those in the UK who are most affected by the COVID-19 crisis”. Hello, we are all of us affected: ‘’Most’ is not a get-out clause.

Yet Amazon recently cut their Amazon associates affiliate program percentage from 8% to a paltry 3% causing much hardship.

Jeff Bezos Is Evil

Changes to the Amazon Associates affiliate programs will affect hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of people. The…

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How can Amazon justify this especially at a time when this pandemic is causing so much economic worry for ordinary people and when the company is making so an unprecedented amount of money as a result of the pandemic?

Amazon previously retained 92% of its retail profit — now it wants 97%? If this is a response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Amazon is being extremely unfair in wanting to keep such a great proportion of referral sales. Poor show.

Amazon comes across as nothing but greedy, cynical and self-interested.

Being capitalistic does not mean a company has to have no moral conscience. There is a choice being made here. Are we to believe that these cuts had to be made in order to finance a trifling £2 more per hour for warehouse workers? Honestly, what possible justification can there be.

It’s possible that the changes to the affiliate programme were decided before the coronavirus outbreak. In which case, why were they carried through? I cannot begin to fathom what it must be like to be facing, as many are, financial hardship or even ruin because of your company’s greed.

I would seriously boycott Amazon were I not so invested. As it is I have cancelled my Amazon Fresh subscription and will be looking at what else I can let go of in the coming days and weeks.

Disgusted,

Marla Bishop

Copy of letter from Amazon UK Country Manager

Copy of Doug Gurr Letter

Dear valued customer, Following the announcement of the extended lockdown, we’re all coming to realise that life will…

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Marla Bishop is a relationship coach and writer: On medium.com she is the creator of Lilith and an editor of The Bad Influence, The Get Fit Gang, and The Narrative. She lives in London UK with her husband and youngest two children. You can follow her here.