Amazon Kills ‘Smile’ Charity Program to Focus on Other Giving
- Announcement coincides with a fresh round of layoffs
- Amazon said the program didn’t have anticipated impact
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Amazon.com Inc. is halting “AmazonSmile,” a decade-old charitable program that let customers pick a charity to receive a donation from the company equal to 0.5% of their purchases.
The announcement, which coincided with a fresh round of layoffs that will affect 18,000 Amazon employees, showed how tech industry cost-cutting could ripple through the nonprofit world.