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It's Rico Daily. I'm Adam Clark Estus.

Amazon first introduced free two-day shipping when it rolled out Amazon Prime back in 2005.

And today, it's hard to imagine Amazon without it.

But convenience, as we know, comes with a cost.

And as Amazon's power grew, so did its influence.

So now, competing retail giants like Walmart and Target

are forced to follow the Amazon productivity model.

Today's guest Jason Del Rey, a senior correspondent for Rico,

is here to talk about what this means for the rest of America.

Amazon is the most influential employer in this country right now.

For two main reasons. First is, it has over 1.1 million direct employees across.

It's offices, but mostly it's 800 plus warehouse facilities.

And at its current hiring rate, it would surpass Walmart as the largest employer in the US

in the next few years. But its influence goes beyond direct employees.

It has partners and competitors who are either forced to or choose to

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