For the everlasting offers, discounts and promotional cashback-things, people nowadays go with online shopping. It is well understood that this 21st century’s style of shopping has peaked the traditional way raising the bars advertently with the whole new appealing strategies of marketing with ease.
Gone are those days when laying hands on the products was the preliminary step in buying something. It is click and check-out strategy now. E-commerce sites are roping in new ways of luring the aspiring customers all the way through kith and kin.
With less or no issues on offline-shopping, people these days are deliberately choosing the Internet to grab their desired goods at stunningly unexpected prices, well, aside from all this, how about the authenticity? The quality? The durability? E-commerce sites such as Amazon, Flipkart, and eBay, etc have been always in news for one or other reason.
Another recent incident has drawn some serious concerns about the above factors.
In a shocking incident, an Amazon customer was left disgusted when he found a bottle of urine in his damaged delivery box. The product was in a damaged box containing a Swarovski bauble that was handed over by a driver.
A 30-year-old man said he opened the box and pulled out his order only to find it also contained a bottle filled with urine in it. “I could tell instantly what it was. I just couldn’t believe it. It made me feel sick and I took it straight out to the bin.” The man had to keep on washing his hands multiple times. He added It’s not about the compensation. It seems like this one got caught short and the bottle has somehow ended up in my package,” he said.
He also raised the concern about his health as some of it could have gotten outside and contaminated him. This is not the first time Amazon has faced such complaints.
Two months ago, it was revealed in a probe that many Amazon drivers urinate in plastic bottles in their vacancy vans as they have no time to stop for toilet breaks. Many works for as long as 12 hours each day, despite UK law stating drivers, must not exceed 11 hours work per day.
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