A few nights ago, BBC’s Panorama featured undercover recording of Amazon’s warehouse in Swansea.

Graduate Adam Littler, 23, said he walked up to 11 miles as he worked 10-and-a-half hour night shifts inside the online retailer’s giant distribution centre in Swansea. He was expected to collect a customer order every 33 seconds and said he was subjected to ‘unbelievable’ pressure to meet efficiency targets.

He carried a scanning machine that tracked his position in the vast warehouse and bleeped every time he scanned the wrong item, and also had a count down timer after each scan providing remaining time to the next item.

Amazon’s practises all seemed legal, but they did seem to employ a huge amount of agency workers(temps) that don’t have any statutory rights like a full time employee.

Leading experts commented that this type of pressure from both a physical and mental point of view was horrific. Amazon received millions in grants and even had roads built for its warehouses.

So, lets some this up. With one click you receive goods that are low priced and from a company you trust. This same company then uses humans as robots, disposes of them once they are mentally and physical expired and at the same time destroys small and large companies. The small and large companies haven’t received millions in grants, and more than likely have paid a fair amount of corporation tax, something Amazon seems very shy about.

But would all this insight stop you buying from Amazon?