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BOOK REVIEW
Amazon is everywhere â and in âFullfillmentâ Alec MacGillis looks at how much it has cost us
By Amy Pedulla Globe Correspondent,Updated March 11, 2021, 4:40 p.m.
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Iâm sitting at a red light near my house in the car. The light turns green, but I and the others behind me at the intersection cannot proceed because an Amazon Prime truck is double-parked on the other side of the street, blocking the driving lane. I bring this up not because itâs notable; it isnât.
Alec MacGillis takes the ubiquity of that scene and blows it up into something on the scale of Homerâs Odyssey in his new book, âFulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.â Throughout the work, MacGillisâs thesis is that Amazon, aptly named after a mighty river, drowns everything in its path. But his focus isnât on Amazon solely as a company or its history of growth, but rather âto take a