PillPack, bought by Amazon in 2018, was marketed as a friendly, patient-first pharmacy that organizes your meds into neat little packets. Under Amazon, it’s become another spoke in the company’s wheel of health-data capture and market control. What started as a small, service-oriented pharmacy is now part of a system designed to edge out independent competitors, mine your medical information, and feed profits back into a corporation built on worker exploitation, surveillance contracts, and its role in enabling 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.