• Amazon urged to help people with disabilities get groceries amid coronavirus

    Amazon urged to help people with disabilities get groceries amid coronavirus

    Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is being asked to prioritize food deliveries to people with disabilities during the coronavirus lockdowns that have made it harder for them to stock their pantries. The American Network of Community Options and Resources has told Bezos via letter that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are among the Americans “left …
  • Instacart grocery delivery workers seek strike as jobs become riskier

    Instacart grocery delivery workers seek strike as jobs become riskier

    NEW YORK  — A possible strike by Instacart workers highlights the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the grocery delivery business, where workers are worried about their safety as they try to meet a surge in demand for online groceries. A group called the Gig Workers Collective is calling for a nationwide walk-out Monday. They’ve …
  • Instacart grocery delivery workers seek strike as jobs become riskier

    Instacart grocery delivery workers seek strike as jobs become riskier

    NEW YORK  — A possible strike by Instacart workers highlights the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the grocery delivery business, where workers are worried about their safety as they try to meet a surge in demand for online groceries. A group called the Gig Workers Collective is calling for a nationwide walk-out Monday. They’ve …
  • Ravens star Lamar Jackson is suing Amazon

    Ravens star Lamar Jackson is suing Amazon

    Lamar Jackson is taking on Amazon. The Ravens quarterback and reigning NFL MVP filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday in Florida suing the online retail giant, claiming it’s allowing third-party sellers to make money off of his image, likeness and catch phrases, according to the Baltimore Sun. The complaint requests Amazon to stop selling the …
  • Americans are watching more TV than ever: What’s new this weekend

    Americans are watching more TV than ever: What’s new this weekend

    It’s official: Staying inside means that Americans are watching more TV than ever. According to the Hollywood Reporter, since the week of March 9, kids ages 2 to 11 are watching 14% more television than they did before the global coronavirus pandemic forced families to hunker down at home. Kids ages 12 to 17 are …
  • Why Amazon didn’t acquire NYC Fairway stores while scooping up 2 in NJ

    Why Amazon didn’t acquire NYC Fairway stores while scooping up 2 in NJ

    The Fairway name will live on in New York City even as it loses its New Jersey locations to tech giant Amazon. The iconic Big Apple grocer on Wednesday said it wrapped up a bankruptcy auction that included the sale of two New Jersey leases to Amazon for $1.5 million. Amazon’s plans for the stores, …
  • Tim Gunn on reuniting with Heidi Klum for ‘Making the Cut’

    Tim Gunn on reuniting with Heidi Klum for ‘Making the Cut’

    Tim Gunn says that “Making the Cut,” the new Amazon series he’s hosting with Heidi Klum, is the result of their unhappiness over the direction of their previous project, “Project Runway.” “Heidi and I have wanted to make changes to ‘Project Runway’ for quite a while,” Gunn, 66, tells The Post. “We were joined in …
  • Amazon to acquire two Fairway Market stores in NJ

    Amazon to acquire two Fairway Market stores in NJ

    Amazon will take over two Fairway Market stores in New Jersey — two fewer than the tech giant had hoped to acquire in a bankruptcy auction that ended on Wednesday, The Post has learned. Sources say Village Supermarket — which operates Shoprite stores and had been the stalking horse bidder for Fairway’s five Manhattan stores, …
  • States ask big tech to step up vigilance against online price-gouging

    States ask big tech to step up vigilance against online price-gouging

    A group of 32 US states have a message for the nation’s leading online platforms: You are not doing enough to stop price gouging amid the coronavirus crisis. In a letter sent on Wednesday to Amazon, Walmart, Facebook and eBay, a bipartisan group of US attorneys general outlined specific steps it wants the online platforms …
  • Amazon workers at 6 US warehouses test positive for Chinese virus

    Amazon workers at 6 US warehouses test positive for Chinese virus

    SEATTLE – The U.S. coronavirus outbreak has spread to at least six Amazon warehouses, infecting workers racing to deliver massive volumes of packages for consumers leery of leaving their homes to shop. In the past few days, Amazon workers tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel virus, in New York City; Shepherdsville, …