Amazon, the largest e-retailer in the world, has decided to terminate its fulfilment and delivery operations in Quebec, closing all seven of its warehouses—and some other facilities—in the province over the next two months. It says it will go back to third-party deliveries.
The news, first reported by CTV News this morning, will cost 1,700 full-time employees and 250 part-time workers their jobs. The unionization of 200 employees at its facility in Laval, last spring, was not a factor in the decision, Barbara Agrait, a spokesperson for Amazon, told CTV.
