{
  "id": 12919914,
  "title": "Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs during one of its biggest shopping events of the year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/amazon-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-during-one-of-its-biggest-shopping",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-08T17:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91620846/amazon-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-during-one-of-its-biggest-shopping-events-of-the-year"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Amazon has announced a series of job cuts in its Stores division, responsible for its online retail business. The reduction primarily affects fewer than 1,000 employees, primarily in customer service, engineering, and marketplace support roles. Amazon spokesperson stated that these changes are aimed at better enabling the company to deliver on its priorities. The company has been making smaller reductions in its workforce recently. In March, Amazon cut jobs in its robotics division, and in July, it reduced staff in its artificial general intelligence group. Earlier this year, Amazon announced the closure of all its brick-and-mortar convenience and grocery stores, but some locations will reopen as Whole Foods.",
  "summary": "Amazon’s latest flurry of layoffs will hit the company’s Stores division, the business unit responsible for its online retail storefront. The cuts will affect fewer than 1,000 workers this time – a much smaller reduction in workforce than a round of mass layoffs across the company earlier this year. Employees shared news of the layoffs in internal Slack channel messages viewed by Business…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}