9 min read An Irish âfulfilment centreâ will make shopping easier, but it has downsides for consumers and smaller retailers Jeff Bezos has had an excellent pandemic. Since the global crisis began a year ago the Amazon.com founder and chief executive has seen his net worth jump by â¬59 billion to â¬156 billion. His pile of money has grown by an average of â¬160 million a day or â¬1,850 every single second since the world started keeping its distance and washing its hands with the vigour of a heart surgeon heading into an operating theatre. Based on such growth, Bezos earned around â¬15,000 in the time it has taken you to read this sentence.