https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/27/18114735/amazon-warehouse-workers-europe-protests-black-friday > Amazon workers in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the UK staged mass walkouts, protesting poor conditions and low wages. > Thanksgiving weekend 2018 will go down as a historic event for Amazon: It was the company’s biggest shopping event in history, with shoppers ordering a record 180 million items over the five-day period. Cyber Monday alone broke company records as Amazon’s biggest shopping day ever.