Amazon’s arrival in New Zealand is not an opportunity we should welcome | Morgan Godfery

The company is notorious as an employer and its expansion here may not be in the country's best interests

The future of capitalism is the distribution centre. Or it's the future of retail at least, if Amazon is the innovator its executives sell it as; the increasingly efficient warehouse where capacity management happens in the cloud, where drones scan tags to take an inventory or mark goods for dispatch, and where autonomous vehicles handle delivery to your door.

The advantage, this time for Amazon's shareholders, is that cloud computing, drones, and autonomous vehicles never tire, let alone ask for a toilet break.