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Amazonâs profit soars 220 percent as pandemic drives shopping online. Amazon has run its warehouses closer to full capacity, and delivery drivers have made more stops on their routes, during the pandemic.Credit...Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters April 29, 2021 With the pandemic shifting sales online and consumers flush with stimulus checks, Amazon on Thursday reported $108.5 billion in sales in the first three months of the year, up 44 percent from a year earlier. It also posted $8.1 billion in profit, an increase of 220 percent from the same period last year. The first-quarter results surpassed...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's wealthiest person, according to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of $186 billion. Four others also have fortunes over $100 billion. Here, Bezos speaks at a conference in 2018. Credit: AFP via Getty Images There's Rich, And Then There's Jeff Bezos Rich: Meet The World's Centibillionaires By at 4:12 am NPR You probably think 2020 has turned out to be a pretty lousy year, what with the coronavirus pandemic, a global recession and unceasing partisan warfare in Washington. Then again, you're not Je...