Amazon: Sometimes you can see problems coming...

Amazon is fighting a multifront attack on collecting State Sales Taxes, and that puts their business activities in the spotlight in any number of state legislatures.

That makes this story in the Allentown Morning Call really dangerous to Amazon, and they haven't handled it very well so far, based on the content. It's about working conditions at their warehouses. I have no ideas if the charges the story makes are true or uncommon with regards to other similar operations, but Amazon's lack of participation in defining this story is alarming. Especially since Amazon is using the promise of jobs to stave off collecting sales tax.

Either you shape the story or are shaped by it. Amazon is being shaped, and it's not a pretty picture.