Amazon Pharmacy sells itself as a convenient, cost-cutting way to get prescriptions, but it’s another move in Amazon’s plan to dominate and privatize essential services. By handling your medication, Amazon gains access to your most sensitive health data—adding it to the mountain of personal information it already collects through shopping, devices, and cloud services. This isn’t about making healthcare better. It’s about locking you into their ecosystem while they squeeze out local pharmacies, exploit workers, and keep funneling profits into the same corporate machine tied to exploitation, surveillance, and Israeli apartheid through AWS.
Amazon is rated High Impact because its harms are systemic and interlocking.
Environmental Harm: Delivery fleets, aviation cargo, and data centers generate massive emissions and plastic waste, while public pledges mask lobbying against climate regulation.
Human Rights Violations: Workers face surveillance, injury-level quotas, and unsafe delivery speeds. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere face wage theft and coercion.
Military & Conflict Complicity: AWS is central to surveillance states. Project Nimbus embeds Amazon in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, supplying AI and data services to its military and government.
The result: consumer spending that powers a machine which entrenches inequality, accelerates climate collapse, and sustains state violence worldwide.