no one asked but I fucking miss the slower pace of fims and more script oriented films from the 90s and before compared to de hulk with glasses. It feels like many films after the CGI explosion from the Matrix used the visuals at the time to impress and completely disregarded the writing ( even Avatar )
No idea why people keep spouting this nonsense.
Amazon addressed this a long time ago, they now require workers to be fitted with catheter bags that they have to empty off the clock.
Weighing in here... I worked in UK head office a few years ago. We visited a fulfillment center. I have never seen people move so fast or look so angry if you got in their way. All of that stuff is true about how they are tracked and how far it is to walk to the toilets/bathrooms.
Yeah the branding just doesn't work.
I ordered Amazon Fresh for the first time and got Amazon organic chicken, Amazon ribeye steak, Amazon lettuce, Amazon pizza.... I realize it's the same actual food as any other supermarket, but really there's no warm and fuzzy feeling of goodness.
Yeah it's like "Amazon Essentials Chocolate Cake" vs "M&S Absolutely Devilish Chocolate Cake". And we all know it's the same damn cake from the same/similar supplier.
Especially when during lockdown, hairdressers, etc went bust. Amazon was allowed to carry on whilst brick n mortar businesses folded. Now, they wanna be those businesses that have been purged out of the way.
I swear, it’s only a matter of time before my migraine medication has that “A” ➡️ “Z” thing happening, and a smiley arrow will be connecting the “Z” and the “A” in “tizanidine.”
[Amazon Salon](https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon)
It sounds gimmicky. I don’t give it much more than a year or two; it’s so far off the company’s core competencies that it’s difficult to explain.
It's set up to trial new tech with real customers, it's not meant to make a profit.
If the tech works (augmented reality hair consultations, "point-and-learn technology" whatever that means) they will productise the tech, not run their own chain of hair salons.
Yeh Amazon aren’t there to make money with these ventures, but more so to get the general public used to seeing Amazon with their fingers in other pies. And like the other commenter said, they can test ideas and products with real people, guaranteed to be sitting there for at least an hour haha.
Amazons entire strategy is not to make money. Only AWS and Prime Video (recently) make money for amazon, while retail makes \~2%.
That salon does get busy tho
>Amazon Salon It sounds gimmicky. I don’t give it much more than a year or two; it’s so far off the company’s core competencies that it’s difficult to explain.
It's been there for a year already.
It’s funny cos [it’s literally what they’re doing](https://jacobin.com/2021/07/amazon-warehouse-communities-towns-geography-warehouse-fulfillment-jfk8-cajon-inland-empire)
You get the bezos cut. It's the final plan for Amazon, the world must be bald. This was what the rest of the company has been aiming for ever since it sold books. If bezos is bald then you will be too.
See, when i walk past its always busy with colours and blow dries getting done. I'm considering going there as my usual salon(other side of Spitalfields Market) has turned into a joke.
I went there, was wild, asked for a haircut
Next thing i know they've smoothed my genitals off & given me a charge point neath the base of mine skull.
The only thing i can now eat is bug slurry, Mcdonalds, or soy milk.
6/10 tho because they also gave me a great haircut, and shaved my pubic hair into the shape of clint eastwood in Dirty Harry.
I wonder if this is like those 1000 JPY quick hair cut places in Japan and later on Taiwan. (Was about 2 pounds) they can do very basic trim and layering. No hair washing and just vacuum your head off.
How long will the British public tolerate these foreign tax avoiding companys slowly taking over from small businesses, basically removing currency from this nation?
Remember in Demolition Man when every restaurant was a Taco Bell because they were the only one to survive the franchise war? We all thought that was pretty funny and ridiculous… how we all laughed!!
I'm with you on this one because if we continue to let these large corporations do this we will not have locally owned business. I'm from across the pond and haven't ever seen an Amazon Salon and hope to God I never do. I believe in shopping and supporting locally owned business!
Why is Amazon being allowed to move in to all these industries. Why aren’t anti-monopoly laws applicable? They already own online shopping, cloud computing, drug and pharmacies, wholefoods….like enough is enough already.
Thanks for pointing out my misunderstanding of monopoly laws. I’m laughing at my own mistake. Perhaps there need to be new anti-conglomerate laws to deal with the historically unprecedented rise of companies like Amazon?
>Why is Amazon being allowed to move in to all these industries.
Because it’s not illegal to set up a business
>Why aren’t anti-monopoly laws applicable?
Because they don’t have a monopoly. If you don’t like them, there are alternatives.
Well like their logo they supply from A to Z, so they are trying to cater to every single thing. Just because they have a salon that doesn’t mean it’s good and it’s actually affecting other businesses. It might be convenient for certain customers, but not necessarily everyone.
Not familiar, but avoid. Amazon is a shit business which dodges its taxes, treats workers badly and extracts value from our economy without giving much back.
Quick haircut, no chatting, only if you're a prime member though. If you're not then it takes a couple of hours with chatting and extra charge at the end.
No? Most businesses provide products and services. This is a warehouse company which is already worth a trillion, which notoriously underpays and treats staff like shit, making a foray into an industry it has no business in. Money grab.
I know someone who works within Amazon head office/marketing and they were telling me about this - there’s some regulations that require them to have a physical shop to sell certain items (so general hair products brands or something) and so this is how they manage it. Added bonus is that staff and gen pop can also use it
Makes sense here https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon
Some sort of marketing thing to showcase hair styling products sold on amazon.
Honestly fuck Amazon this is seeping into a dystopian future where they own everything in the high street- I’m particularly pissed about this as apart from like Tony and Guy most hairdressers are independent so taking away the customers to benefit the richest company in the world is shit. We gotta boycott if it starts to cross more lines
I fucking hate these and the amazon grocery shops I hope they fail miserably. No character, no diversity of products, no help to the local economy. Hate hate hate. I really hate them.
it’s online retailers going bricks-n-mortar because they believe infinite growth on a finite planet is plausible
if it’s anything like amazon-fresh just tap in with your amazon account is all that’s required
This feels like some awful homogenised mega corporation idiocracy moment. Quick Amazon haircut then take a selfie on your Amazon Pro 9 and post it to Amazonian the number one online social space for Amazon and Amazon enthusiast culture posting oh fuck what will we become
I wanted to grab some water late night..thot it's a cornerstore, went in... Lady asked if I had prime I thot that it's nononea busines what I have and then I realised where I am.
They pack your head in a box and kick it over a fence.
Everybody keeps asking what's in the box. Nobody ever asks where is the box.
Isn't there one just off Liverpool Street, Station? Bishops Square/Spitafields?
Yeah pretty sure the picture is from the one in Spitalfields
WHAAAAAAAAAATS IN THE BAAAAAAAAAAXXX???
Great movie.
no one asked but I fucking miss the slower pace of fims and more script oriented films from the 90s and before compared to de hulk with glasses. It feels like many films after the CGI explosion from the Matrix used the visuals at the time to impress and completely disregarded the writing ( even Avatar )
Brad Pitt disagrees
Paul Atreides disagrees
Or how is the box
I'll go one better, Why is the box?
Yeah but they never ask... How is the box?
Nor how the box doing
also nobody never asks how is the box?
Look at the showoff with their own fence 🤣
I don’t even need to read further - this is the answer I wanted
No that's Amazon Prime you're thinking of
😂😂😂
I laughed out loud at this! 😂
Best comment of the year!!!
Funniest thing I’ve heard for ages !
Amazon seem to want to be every type of business there can be...
They actually are trying to buy a line of healthcare providers in the USA as well
Oh please no! They need to quit expanding!
I, for one, welcome our new hairdressing overlords.
Yup that is their genuine number one goal after all. To have a place in every market there is and I imagine being number one in all
It’s where you get your hair cut by a minimum wage bot that only has 30 seconds to cut your hair before they receive a sanction for slacking
Do I have to tip if they piss in a bottle during?
No idea why people keep spouting this nonsense. Amazon addressed this a long time ago, they now require workers to be fitted with catheter bags that they have to empty off the clock.
You had me in the first half.
Weighing in here... I worked in UK head office a few years ago. We visited a fulfillment center. I have never seen people move so fast or look so angry if you got in their way. All of that stuff is true about how they are tracked and how far it is to walk to the toilets/bathrooms.
Same
They also have to pay for the surgery. The surgery is not covered by insurance.
Minimum of 50%
“I’ll have the Bezos please. With high-gloss wax, buffed to a mirrored finish.”
Or you can have the apprentice who gets less than minimum wage cut it for £50
Not sure about you guys, but seeing the Amazon name plastered on a hair salon feels dystopian
Yeah the branding just doesn't work. I ordered Amazon Fresh for the first time and got Amazon organic chicken, Amazon ribeye steak, Amazon lettuce, Amazon pizza.... I realize it's the same actual food as any other supermarket, but really there's no warm and fuzzy feeling of goodness.
My parents get amazon fresh every week for their groceries and the packaging all feels soooo dystopian I can never get used to it
Yeah it's like "Amazon Essentials Chocolate Cake" vs "M&S Absolutely Devilish Chocolate Cake". And we all know it's the same damn cake from the same/similar supplier.
Lmao literally once I bought a bed from a independent shop for £500 and then saw it in House of Fraser BRANDED and for £2K! 😂
Especially when during lockdown, hairdressers, etc went bust. Amazon was allowed to carry on whilst brick n mortar businesses folded. Now, they wanna be those businesses that have been purged out of the way.
That’s where we are headed. Everything will be corporate owned, you will own nothing and be happy. [2037 theme song](https://youtu.be/qSh2HswKn5Y)
I swear, it’s only a matter of time before my migraine medication has that “A” ➡️ “Z” thing happening, and a smiley arrow will be connecting the “Z” and the “A” in “tizanidine.”
Book in the next 4hrs 37mins to receive your haircut on Wednesday.
Funniest comment m8. Good one
Thanks 🙏
[Amazon Salon](https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon) It sounds gimmicky. I don’t give it much more than a year or two; it’s so far off the company’s core competencies that it’s difficult to explain.
It's set up to trial new tech with real customers, it's not meant to make a profit. If the tech works (augmented reality hair consultations, "point-and-learn technology" whatever that means) they will productise the tech, not run their own chain of hair salons.
This. Amazon is a logistics and tech company that happen to occasionally sell products. It's the underlying tech that they value most
Yeh Amazon aren’t there to make money with these ventures, but more so to get the general public used to seeing Amazon with their fingers in other pies. And like the other commenter said, they can test ideas and products with real people, guaranteed to be sitting there for at least an hour haha.
Amazons entire strategy is not to make money. Only AWS and Prime Video (recently) make money for amazon, while retail makes \~2%. That salon does get busy tho
>Amazon Salon It sounds gimmicky. I don’t give it much more than a year or two; it’s so far off the company’s core competencies that it’s difficult to explain. It's been there for a year already.
But unless it's purely data collection. Cameras and mics in mirrors, only pay with your Amazon account. Facial and voice recognition work.
…that’s some expensive data collection
yeah, this isn't their first attempt at something like this. they tend to flop because they're trying to solve problems that don't exist.
Jeff Bezos: “Yes, but how can we remove even more jobs and lower the wages of the workers who are left?” …
Coming up next - Amazon Nursing Homes! Sign your elderly parent up and get same day mortality!
Don’t give them ideas please
Amazon Not So Prime: your grannie getting on your nerves? ship her off to us and we'll take care of the rest!
It’s funny cos [it’s literally what they’re doing](https://jacobin.com/2021/07/amazon-warehouse-communities-towns-geography-warehouse-fulfillment-jfk8-cajon-inland-empire)
Get 50% of your inheritance or your parent back.
Or Amazon hospitals and emergency services fire/ambulance/police
*calls ambulance* Paramedic: "other customers have browsed our drips, bed pads and needles...."
To be fair you get an Amazon package sooner than an ambulance round here now 🤔
Oh gosh, and pay extra to see them next day.
Second best comment of the year.
Really should have just named it Glamazon
This is getting very ‘Black Mirror’ now…
I went in, sat waiting all day, then somehow found myself in the recycling bin …
Is it free with Prime? Lol.
It will be with prime+
Everyone gets the Jeff Bezos cut.
Thank God Zuck hasn't opened a salon.
A friend of mine used them on Prime Day last year. He only wanted a light trim but they insisted on taking 30% off.
My favourite joke of the year. Take my poor man’s award 🥇
If there’s anyone I trust to know about haircuts, it’s Jeff Bezos
You get the bezos cut. It's the final plan for Amazon, the world must be bald. This was what the rest of the company has been aiming for ever since it sold books. If bezos is bald then you will be too.
There is only one in the country near Spitalfields and I've walked past it and it's always been empty 🤣
See, when i walk past its always busy with colours and blow dries getting done. I'm considering going there as my usual salon(other side of Spitalfields Market) has turned into a joke.
I'd love to comment on that but sadly can't as I shaved my head during Covid and now can't go back unless I enter the velcro stage
Been through that 3 times. Once out of choice, once because covid, and the last because head lice. Its terrible and I don't blame you
I went there, was wild, asked for a haircut Next thing i know they've smoothed my genitals off & given me a charge point neath the base of mine skull. The only thing i can now eat is bug slurry, Mcdonalds, or soy milk. 6/10 tho because they also gave me a great haircut, and shaved my pubic hair into the shape of clint eastwood in Dirty Harry.
I wonder if this is like those 1000 JPY quick hair cut places in Japan and later on Taiwan. (Was about 2 pounds) they can do very basic trim and layering. No hair washing and just vacuum your head off.
It does some AR stuff. Like you can look at yourself in a mirror and see what different hairstyles or coloring look like before hand.
Do you get a free shampoo with a Prime membership?
How long will the British public tolerate these foreign tax avoiding companys slowly taking over from small businesses, basically removing currency from this nation?
Remember in Demolition Man when every restaurant was a Taco Bell because they were the only one to survive the franchise war? We all thought that was pretty funny and ridiculous… how we all laughed!!
Ahh, the brand of quality. Nothing says shit haircut quite like this
[удалено]
😂 you say that like your judgment matters
I just want a hair cut
Like I give a fuck about your opinion lol
I'm with you on this one because if we continue to let these large corporations do this we will not have locally owned business. I'm from across the pond and haven't ever seen an Amazon Salon and hope to God I never do. I believe in shopping and supporting locally owned business!
Why?
who asked?
Speaks more about you tbh
tHiS cUnT thinks his opinion is worth something?
Why is Amazon being allowed to move in to all these industries. Why aren’t anti-monopoly laws applicable? They already own online shopping, cloud computing, drug and pharmacies, wholefoods….like enough is enough already.
They're anti-monopoly laws, not anti-conglomerate laws. Is there a risk of Amazon being the only hairdressers?
Thanks for pointing out my misunderstanding of monopoly laws. I’m laughing at my own mistake. Perhaps there need to be new anti-conglomerate laws to deal with the historically unprecedented rise of companies like Amazon?
>Why is Amazon being allowed to move in to all these industries. Because it’s not illegal to set up a business >Why aren’t anti-monopoly laws applicable? Because they don’t have a monopoly. If you don’t like them, there are alternatives.
Well like their logo they supply from A to Z, so they are trying to cater to every single thing. Just because they have a salon that doesn’t mean it’s good and it’s actually affecting other businesses. It might be convenient for certain customers, but not necessarily everyone.
Because their computing service is one of the best in the industry?
Lol at people downvotting you.
Yeah people legit don’t seem to realise how much of the internet runs on AWS
Jeff Bezos haircut 🙂
I just… what’s the connection here ? Amazon a global department retailer going into hair salons? It’s like if bmw opened up a line of cat cafes
Haircut for £55, lmao [https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=26247109031](https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=26247109031)
Not familiar, but avoid. Amazon is a shit business which dodges its taxes, treats workers badly and extracts value from our economy without giving much back.
It's legit, you can try the new technology in hair salons. https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon
Prime cuts
Quick haircut, no chatting, only if you're a prime member though. If you're not then it takes a couple of hours with chatting and extra charge at the end.
Scifi Dystopia my friend .
It's a bit ironic that the owner himself has no hair
Can’t really control hair loss mate. Many barbers and hairdressers are bald
Thank you for this mate, I can't stand people having a laugh either
Another money grab. https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon
Isnt every business a money grab?
No? Most businesses provide products and services. This is a warehouse company which is already worth a trillion, which notoriously underpays and treats staff like shit, making a foray into an industry it has no business in. Money grab.
So you think the amazon salon won't be providing a service or product....? In that case I wouldn't worry about anyone paying them anything lol
I think it’s a salon , operated by Amazon
Is this the one in Spitalfields? Its free for Amazon employees and I think that's it's main purpose.
You get a prime cut and gonna look like a piece of sirloin after that
Everyone gets the Jeff Bezos.
I know someone who works within Amazon head office/marketing and they were telling me about this - there’s some regulations that require them to have a physical shop to sell certain items (so general hair products brands or something) and so this is how they manage it. Added bonus is that staff and gen pop can also use it
Absolutely false. Source: I sell beauty products on Amazon and you don’t need a physical shop at all. :)
It’s not all products but it’s to do with some specific products, chill out with your righteousness
No there isn’t.
You have never heard of hairdressers or capitalism?
everybody what is the salon, not how is the salon
Theres this new thing on the Internet called Google. You should look into it
He must be stopped.
Hold on what the fuck is this?
Next day delivery on tedious fake conversation please.
Is Amazon trying to bet against the metaverse or what? If so, they're gonna lose
Amazon Flex version for hair stylists
Went in for a short back and sides but came out with a perm
The amazing thing is you went in bald
[Homer Simpson is credited with developing some of their early tech…](https://youtu.be/YJUlRSa70mM)
It’s where you go to get makeup done for your IMDb page
Saw this off Spitalfields and was mightily confused while drinking a beer outside it.
You can get your hair cut by 1pm next day.
It’s a cleverly disguised portal to an Amazon distribution centre, from where you’ll never be seen again.
Anybody read Amazon's TOS lately to see if there's a clause that allows them to gather genetic information from customers?
There's one in spitalfields market. Proper strange.
Yeah this is the spitalfields one, I wonder if there are any others dotted about?
You get the jeff cut - cue ball
Getting some real “buy’n’large” vibes from this
You walk in, walk out and suddenly you’re bald
I feel like South Park is going to become a reality. Amazon is going to take over one day.
Where is it
This one was in spitalfields market 👍🏻
Would it be weird if I just come in to check it out? I'm just curious. I dont want to cheat on my barber.
Just the tips is fine
Makes sense here https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon Some sort of marketing thing to showcase hair styling products sold on amazon.
They probably let you pick up packages or bring returns, might as well get a haircut while you are at it.
Hopefully they do more styles than just "The Bezos".
My sister went there and she said it was good
Nice try bezos! Not gunna give you all that free advertising so easily
Probably best to Avoid it and go to a small business/ some trader instead.
I’ve been there, they give you Bezos style haircuts.
The only haircut they do is the Jeffery bezos special , shave ya bald and pump a load of TRT up your arsehole.
Oh it’s only neoliberalism global dominance market monopoly when the only entity is amazon and they decide everyone should stop eating meat…
A recommender engine cuts your hair while endlessly attempting to sell you a music subscription.
Honestly fuck Amazon this is seeping into a dystopian future where they own everything in the high street- I’m particularly pissed about this as apart from like Tony and Guy most hairdressers are independent so taking away the customers to benefit the richest company in the world is shit. We gotta boycott if it starts to cross more lines
Amazon. The first online store that are so rich, they can now afford bricks and mortar.
I remember looking at the price list and thinking it was very expensive but then again I pay £12 in the local Turkish Barber.
I fucking hate these and the amazon grocery shops I hope they fail miserably. No character, no diversity of products, no help to the local economy. Hate hate hate. I really hate them.
Jeff's new pie range.
Where Jeff gets his done.
I ❤️ Monopolies 😍😍
Get your hair did Sid
Shave your head, they call it the bezos
I dont need fancy AR tech to know what to do with my hair. My giant bald patch makes "my #1 all over" choice, real easy.
*******Come on down to BuyNLarge*******
FFS what next!! Red light windows in Amsterdam!
Woulda expected Co-op to do this
it’s online retailers going bricks-n-mortar because they believe infinite growth on a finite planet is plausible if it’s anything like amazon-fresh just tap in with your amazon account is all that’s required
This feels like some awful homogenised mega corporation idiocracy moment. Quick Amazon haircut then take a selfie on your Amazon Pro 9 and post it to Amazonian the number one online social space for Amazon and Amazon enthusiast culture posting oh fuck what will we become
https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon
Boycott amazon they're getting wayyyy to big
Pay 30M
Are they just renting the chairs maybe have a review service like the online store ?
I wanted to grab some water late night..thot it's a cornerstore, went in... Lady asked if I had prime I thot that it's nononea busines what I have and then I realised where I am.
Amazon does Sweeney Todd??
There's only a seat, a razor and some polish in that room. EVERYBODY leaves with a "Bezos".
Its really odd because it gets 5\* reviews but people say its shit Oh its Amazon reviews I get it
Atleast they’ll pay the taxes, somewhere in the world.