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Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs: smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are putting them there…
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