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    Steve Lopez: We should be ashamed, but when it comes to Amazon, we just can't help ourselves

    by Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2019 4 minutes

    Amazon hasn't divulged exactly how much it hauled in on Cyber Monday, but the company did say it had its biggest sales day ever.

    And CNN Business reported that the day's sales from all sources topped $9 billion, a 17% increase over last year's haul. One-third of the purchases were made on smartphones.

    I suppose this is good news in some quarters, consumer optimism being high and all that, but I'm pretty sure we are now one or two packages away from the end of the world. I don't know about you, but I'm feeling a pang of nausea at the news of our impulsive, record-setting gluttony

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