{"id":31221,"date":"2021-04-22T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/22\/amazons-arrival-in-new-zealand-is-not-an-opportunity-we-should-welcome"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:49:21","slug":"amazons-arrival-in-new-zealand-is-not-an-opportunity-we-should-welcome-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31221","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s arrival in New Zealand is not an opportunity we should welcome | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company is notorious as an employer and its expansion here may not be in the country\u2019s best interests<\/p>\n<p>The future of capitalism is the distribution centre. Or it\u2019s the future of retail at least, if Amazon is the innovator its executives sell it as; the increasingly efficient warehouse where capacity management happens in the cloud, where drones scan tags to take an inventory or mark goods for dispatch, and where autonomous vehicles handle delivery to your door.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage, this time for Amazon\u2019s shareholders, is that cloud computing, drones, and autonomous vehicles never tire, let alone ask for a toilet break.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/22\/amazons-arrival-in-new-zealand-is-not-an-opportunity-we-should-welcome\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company is notorious as an employer and its expansion here may not be in the country\u2019s best interestsThe future of capitalism is the distribution centre. Or it\u2019s the future of retail at least, if Amazon is the innovator its executives sell it as; t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31222,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221\/revisions\/31222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}