Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs during one of its biggest shopping events of the year

The layoffs coincided with Prime Big Deal Days, affecting workers in the company’s retail business across three countries.

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Amazon’s latest flurry of layoffs will hit the company’s Stores division, the business unit responsible for its online retail storefront.

The cuts will affect fewer than 1,000 workers this time—a much smaller reduction than a round of mass layoffs seen earlier this year. Employees shared news of the layoffs in internal Slack messages viewed by Business Insider, which first reported the cuts. The........

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