Amazon Cuts Nearly 1,000 Corporate Jobs in Stores Unit Across Global Hubs

Amazon has confirmed a new round of workforce reductions eliminating fewer than 1,000 white-collar roles, mainly within its core Stores division. The layoffs impact staff in customer service, marketplace support, and retail engineering across the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. The move coincided with Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days shopping event. Amazon stated the restructuring aims to optimize organizational structure, remove bureaucracy, and streamline operational priorities. The cuts follow broader corporate downsizing over the past year and come as the company directs capital toward artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure under a planned $220 billion capital expenditure program.