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Earlier this year, Amazon announced its plans to create 100,000 additional full-time jobs in the United States by mid-2018.
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Having acquired Whole Foods in the summer, it appears as if the company took a shortcut to reach that goal.
Between the end of June and the end of September, the e-commerce giant added a stunning 160,000 employees to its global workforce, of which roughly 90,000 are Whole Foods employees. Amazon is only the second U.S company to employ more than half a million people, but it will have a hard time grabbing the number 1 spot anytime soon: Walmart currently employs 2.3 million people around the world.
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