Amazon partners with Affirm to give shoppers buy-now-pay-later option

Amazon is teaming with payments company Affirm to offer online shoppers a buy-now-pay-later option that does not involve credit cards. 

Tech exec sentenced to 2 years for $1.8 million COVID fraud

A Washington state tech executive has been sentenced to two years in prison after fraudulently obtaining nearly $1.8 million in federal COVID-19 disaster relief loans.

Amazon to mandate masks for all its workers in warehouses

Starting Monday, Amazon will be requiring all of its 900,000 U.S. warehouse workers to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status.

Impact on businesses as Amazon delays return to office to 2022
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President of the Downtown Seattle Association, Jon Scholes, talks about how more people are coming downtown and bringing back business to small local shops and restaurants.

Amazon pushes back return-to-office to January 2022

Seattle-based retail giant Amazon has delayed its return to the office for US corporate employees to January 3, 2022 as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the delta variant.

Amazon pushes back return-to-office to January 2022
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Seattle-based retail giant Amazon has delayed its return to the office for US corporate employees to January 3, 2022.

Union: NLRB officer recommends new vote for Amazon workers

The union that tried — and failed — to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama may get a do-over.

EU regulators fine Amazon $886 million

European regulators have fined Amazon 746 million euros ($886 million) for data protection violations.

Amazon to end testing for COVID-19 at warehouses this month

Amazon will stop testing workers for COVID-19 at its warehouses at the end of this month, citing the availability of vaccines and free testing.

Amazon to hire 100,000 veterans, military spouses
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Amazon announced it plans to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses by 2024. Joining Q13 News is John Quintas, Amazon's director of global military affairs, to discuss what will happen over the next two years.

Amazon begins new chapter as Jeff Bezos hands over CEO role

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO on Monday, handing over the reins as the company navigates the challenges of a world fighting to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawsuit accuses Amazon of price gouging during COVID-19 pandemic

A class-action lawsuit accuses Amazon of hiking up prices for food, cleaning products, personal hygiene products and emergency or medical products during the pandemic.

Amazon to surpass Walmart as largest US retailer

Amazon is one of the few retailers that has benefited during the pandemic, and that growth is about to pull the company past Walmart as the largest U.S. retailer.

Judge tosses challenge to Seattle's tax on big businesses

The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce had challenged the city's new tax on big businesses, arguing it was a tax on employees and calling it "illegal, invalid, and unenforceable."