Won’t you not be my neighbor?

That is the question many residents of Churchill are asking Amazon. Hillwood Development plans to build an Amazon distribution center on the former Westinghouse site in Churchill. The footprint will be over 600,000 square feet, the total square footage over 2.9...

Amazon Working Conditions

Amazon has set a very high standard for ease in ordering and speed in delivery of products.  It has forced other companies to raise their standards in order to compete. By understanding what actually takes place in an Amazon distribution center, we can better evaluate...

Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America

April 19, 2021 I read this book (Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America) over the weekend of April 17 and 18.  I used half a pad of yellow post-ums for pages to read again more closely.  It confirms everything I have found from searching the web since...

Amazon Secrecy in Action

April 19, 2021 First hats off to Alec MacGillis, a reporter for ProPublica, for his long-term reporting and recent book with finely detailed references and sources for much of what I discuss below.  So anyone can go look up dozens of pages of tiny print resources on...

Tree loss in Churchill Borough

April 16, 2021 Tree loss in Churchill Borough will have adverse effects on health, community life, and water runoff.  This subject needs closer attention in light of the drastic destruction of trees required for the Hillwood distribution center for Amazon. There is a...