Irresistible online sale (Replay)
Jeff Bezos, CEO of online shopping giant Amazon.com © Getty Images / Bloomberg / Patrick Fallon
By: Frédérique Lebel
3 min
Essential e-commerce in this period of pandemic, where when there is containment, non-essential shops are asked to close.
For an American giant like Amazon, the period holds great promise.
The world leader has announced the hiring of 175,000 people worldwide.
Publicity
(Replay of November 2, 2020)
Delivery robot
Welcome to the future, where packages are delivered in 30 minutes by low-level drones.
The in-house engineers are already working on it.
In England, delivery vehicles are in any case a reality, in the district of Greenwich, in the south-east of
London,
where they are tested,
Marie Billon.
Grouped opposition
Half of e-commerce across the Atlantic is in the hands of Amazon leader Jeff Bezos, 22% in France.
A stranglehold that leaves no one indifferent.
To meet demand, we are therefore building huge logistics warehouses.
But in France, the multinational is facing the combined opposition of alter-globalists, environmentalists, or traders simply attached to free competition.
This is the report in the east of France, in Alsace, by
Robin Dussenne.
A European tax on GAFA
And will we one day be able to tax GAFA, Google, Amazon and other Facebook normally?
France wishes it and already applies this famous GAFA tax, but at European level, the project is stalling.
It is estimated that on average in the EU, digital companies are subject to a tax rate that is
half the rate
that applies to traditional companies.
The explanations from Brussels by
Laxmi Lota.
Polish Amazon
And will competition also come from national companies?
In Poland, the Allegro company is not called the Polish Amazon for nothing.
It has just entered the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and immediately became the most expensive company in the country.
With 12 million regular customers, it intends to stand up to Amazon, but until when?
In Warsaw,
Sarah Bakaloglou.
Documentary
And for our documentary column, we are going to Spain where the film “
Cartas Mojadas
” was a great success in theaters.
Cartas Mojadas
, these are the letters from migrants who took to the water in the Mediterranean and who will never find their recipient.
Director
Paula Palacios
has chosen to tell us about all those, the living and the dead, who have crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
Elise Gazengel
met her in Barcelona.
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