y in business and continuously provide its services including but not limited to increasing staff numbers by 175,000 members1 as well as $4 billion on covid safety measures which shows that Amazon’s already helped it secure more and more to help it going which again shows the necessity of the question. After this we can see how Amazon has grown its influence over the pandemic whilst many other businesses are going out of business.

After all this it shows that Amazon’s influence over the pandemic has been either due to its own decisions or the way it’s been positioned both come down to the fact that Amazon is built for today’s society being very technologically able. Amazon quite ironically helped build indirectly with AWS which hosts such things as Netflix and Zoom.

The start of the pandemic was a shock to us all but for some it was an opportunity to take advantage of which Amazon did spectacularly. Amazon already being a key part of our lives either through prime, the amazon echo and other such technology so Amazon was already placed in such a good position which they exploited massively by employing more than 8000 staff in the UK alone. So naturally, Amazon was already in a good place which then allowed them to start becoming more dominant as more and more shops closed and them still being allowed to continue operations which also allowed them to continually increase their influence. However this does bring many risks to consumers and to staff.