The Zhitong Finance App learned that Amazon (AMZN.US) confirmed on Wednesday that the company has cut back employees, mainly involving the Stores department responsible for its main e-commerce website. This layoff is the latest round of small-scale staff cuts at Amazon since large-scale layoffs began last year and continued until January of this year. The previous round of layoffs involved about 30,000 people. A person familiar with the matter said that Amazon has cut less than 1,000 white-collar workers this time.

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