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It Takes an Army to Feed the World's Amazon Addiction
Global domination takes a lot of bodies.
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There is constant curiosity about how Amazon might harness technology to wipe out jobs for warehouse workers, or perhaps cashier jobs at its experimental convenience store or soon-to-be owned Whole Foods supermarket chain.
The reality is that for now Amazon requires a growing army of people. The company had 351,000 full and part-time employees as of March 31, more than double the number of workers the company had two years earlier. The increase is far faster than Amazon's 55 percent jump in revenue over the same period.1497884673378 The size of Amazon.com Inc.'s workforce is still dwarfed by the 2.3 million people employed by Walmart at the end of January.