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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

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Editorial: Pittsburgh’s veil of Amazon secrecy leaves residents behind

By The Pitt News Editorial Board November 29, 2017

With little more to go on than a slogan, Pittsburghers don’t know what to make of the City’s proposal to house Amazon’s second headquarters. The online retail giant announced its search for a...

A new Amazon pickup location opened on Oakland Avenue in October. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Amazon opens pickup location on Pitt’s campus

A new Amazon pickup location opened on Pitt’s campus Tuesday. Located at 209 Oakland Ave. next to Crazy Mocha, Amazon@Pitt will allow customers to pick up or return their Amazon orders. Amazon Prime...

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Don’t tempt Amazon with tax cuts

By Ben Sheppard | For The Pitt News September 22, 2017

In the struggle between American cities for economic dominance, an influx of 50,000 new jobs seems too good to be true. But that’s exactly what tech giant Amazon is offering. More than 100 cities...

Whole Foods partnership with Amazon could be a positive, if the food retailers values win out. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Next-day shopping? How Whole Foods and Amazon could change the game

By Levko Karmazyn | For The Pitt News September 6, 2017

You could never accomplish today what John Mackey and Renee Lawson did in 1978 Austin, Texas. The college-dropout couple opened what would eventually become Whole Foods, which Amazon bought in August for...

Amazons Transparent brings moral urgency to LGBT television

Amazon’s ‘Transparent’ brings moral urgency to LGBT television

By Dylan Galper / For The Pitt News November 3, 2014

Society’s attitude towards the LGBT community has experienced a dramatic change over the past few decades and with it, so has our television programming. A Gallup poll from May showed that support for...

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