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Hi, I’m Jamie Condliffe. Greetings from London. Here’s a look at this past week’s tech news:

So Prime Day rolled round, and chances are you bought a Kindle or an electric toothbrush or whatever because, well: cheap!

I say “chances are” because Amazon sold over 175 million products globally during the two-day event this year — more than 2018’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. I don’t know what’s more impressive: that Amazon created a huge shopping holiday in five years, or that it keeps up with the demand.

I mean, how does it meet demand? Well, as The Washington Post reported:

As a “rebinner” at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Minneapolis, Meg Brady says she is expected to handle 600 items per hour, constantly pivoting on her feet to grab one item and place it in a nearby chute. Brady, 55, compared the job to an aerobics workout.

Ms. Brady was among a hundred or so workers, according to some media outlets, at the Shakopee, Minn., facility who went on strike during Prime Day. Amazon says it believes that about 15 of its associates participated in the event.