Hair pulling: Also known as trichotillomania, individuals with this impulse-control disorder have the uncontrollable urge to pull out hair from their head, eyebrows, eyelashes, or arms. The urge is often triggered by feelings of anxiety.
The company's latest project, AmazonSmile, makes this at least partly true. Starting Wednesday, when Amazon customers shop on a new version of the company's website â smile.amazon.com â the company will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to charity.
Amazon acquired Kiva for $775 million in 2012 but only started using the orange robots in its warehouses in late 2014. The deal was expected to make inventory management more efficient. Itâs now beginning to become clear by how much.