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Harsh lockdowns have brought
e-commerce to a halt in some states, which means that while overall demand for online shopping is still up, it isn’t close to matching last year’s growth.
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Regional lockdowns have hampered e-commerce sales in some states and boosted them in others. And while overall demand has grown, it hasn’t surged in the way it did last year, e-commerce executives told ET.
What’s happening: Lockdowns in some districts of Chhattisgarh have brought e-commerce activities to a halt. “We’ve been trying to tell local authorities that e-commerce is the only way to ensure people stay at home, but nothing is happening,” said a top executive.
What Amazon’s Alabama union vote means for the company and workers
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If workers at an Amazon.com facility in Bessemer, Ala., vote to unionize, it would boost the number of workers who have opted to join a union in a state that has membership rates below the U.S. average.
But the vote, the counting of which began March 30, is also being closely watched for other reasons among them Amazon’s position as the second-largest U.S. employer, and the prospect that a “yes vote would buck a general trend toward dwindling private-sector union membership rates seen since the ’60s.
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