AmazonBasics is Amazon’s in-house brand for everything from batteries to office chairs. The company copies top-selling products from independent sellers, pushes them through its massive supply chain, and underprices the originals until the competition disappears. Every sale strengthens Amazon’s abusive labor practices, union-busting, and AWS contracts that help power Israeli occupation and apartheid.
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.