Wholesale

Online pharmacy company Truepill Inc. said it is temporarily halting prescriptions for Adderall and other controlled substances used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and partner Cerebral Inc. told its clinicians to direct those orders to patients’ local pharmacies.Cerebral, an online mental-health company based in San Francisco that describes Truepill as its preferred pharmacy, informed its clinicians of Truepill’s decision in a Friday email viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The email said Truepill…

The National Labor Relations Board said 62% of workers who cast valid ballots from a location site named LDJ5 voted not to form a union. The count was 618 to 380 against unionization, the NLRB said. The results Monday dealt a blow to organizers who hoped to build on their success from an April election, where workers at a warehouse named JFK8, Amazon’s largest on Staten Island, voted to establish the first U.S. union inside the e-commerce giant. An Amazon spokeswoman said the company is “glad that our team at LDJ5 were…

Amazon. AMZN -14.05% com Inc.’s legendary e-commerce machine, which has grown at breakneck speed for more than two decades, is showing signs of stalling.The tech giant on Thursday reported its slowest sales growth in roughly two decades. Product sales have flatlined, and revenue at its main online-shopping business segment has stagnated for six months, one of the worst periods of anemic growth in Amazon’s history. And company executives said overall sales might slow…

The pandemic made shopping for Instacart Inc. one of the hottest jobs in the supermarket business. Now, it is getting tougher.Instacart workers, who fulfill online orders for consumers, say their jobs have become more difficult and less lucrative as they see fewer, smaller orders than they did earlier in the pandemic. Some said they are increasingly competing against other so-called shoppers, waiting around for orders or driving to neighborhoods where they are more likely to find work. The job is changing as growth slows…

Written by Sean Portnoy and Sean Portnoy Contributor Sean Portnoy started his tech writing career at ZDNet nearly a decade ago. He then…