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

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 in workforce than a round of mass layoffs across the company earlier this year. Employees shared news of the layoffs in internal Slack channel messages viewed by Business Insider, which first reported the news. The cuts appear to have impacted customer service, engineering, a...