When France’s Workers Rise Up to Protest, Amazon Gets Busy
- Weeks of unrest give consumers another reason to shop online
- Shift is ‘enriching American platforms,’ labor minister says
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Tear-gassed protesters shielding their faces in front of a boarded-up Cartier boutique, department stores shuttered, picket marchers blocking entrances to suburban retail centers: welcome to holiday shopping in France.
A month of rowdy, sometimes destructive, protests against higher fuel taxes and low wages by the French Yellow Vests movement has scraped much of the luster off this year’s holiday spend-fest. And while government has responded with some worker-friendly policies, the country’s shoppers now have another reason to click over to online retailers like Amazon.com Inc.