Cool. If they decide to not have facilities in jurisdictions where they don't want to pay workers fairly, we'd be better off without them. Have them pay for the higher freight costs instead. The money is gonna go to those workers instead.
Amazon is harmful in other ways so if their market share decreases as a function of higher freight costs and slower deliveries, that won't be a bad thing.
- It’s giving those deliveries to gig workers so they can’t bargain wages
  
  Where are the packages being handed over to the gig workers though? If they have no local facility, they either have to ship from another province or rent capacity in someone else's.
  
  From what they are saying they won’t hold any inventory, just ship from local businesses
  
  Strange. Is Amazon saying that? That doesn't make sense. Amazon sells a lot of stuff that local businesses don't have. They would still have to ship a lot of stuff out of province or from the US. If Amazon is saying this, I think it's just a scare tactic.
  
  Direct quote is
  "Following a recent review of our Quebec operations," the spokesperson said in an emailed statement, "we found that returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses, similar to the one we had until 2020, will enable us to offer the same excellent service and deliver even greater savings to our customers in the long term."
  
  Doubt it's true they can do that but that's just my guess. 🤷🏻

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