Amazon killed a lot of retail by offering cheap / below cost shipping and at cost goods to attract customers and squeeze out brick and mortar retailers. Now that Amazon has hooked people and retailers have gone out of business, Amazon raised prices. The deals arent there and the products are more expensive.

These dark stores would have undercut real grocery stores until there were far fewer physical stores. Then, once people relied on them, they would have jacked up the delivery fees, reduced the variety of goods and charged as much as an in person grocery used to.

[–] LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Amazon is pretty much charging retail prices now. They don't list the retail price anymore if it's too close to the sale price. If it's on sale they'll list it though.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not even counting the wage slaves working for these kind of businesses. They're usually contractors like Uber and most of the time they're undocumented and underpaid immigrants. It's practically modern slavery for the convenience of the few. Fuck those predatory bastards.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Actually the article says that they were mostly on full time contracts unlike the Uber eats drivers who will replace them.