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  • 4 October, 2008. Items on sale in an Ann Taylor-LOFT store on 34th street (between Broadway and Fifth ave). As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
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    Discount_OUT_008.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008.  A sale sign is here at the entrance of the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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    Discount_OUT_005.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. T-shirts on sale in an Ann Taylor-LOFT store on 34th street (between Broadway and Fifth ave). As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
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www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_OUT_007.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008.  A customer exits a Banana Republic store on 34th street and Fifth ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_OUT_006.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A customer enters the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_018.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customer check items on sale in the Gap store of 42nd street and 3rd ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_017.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A customer check items on sale in the Old Navy store of 34th street (between Broadway and 7th ave). As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_005.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008.  Items on sale at the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexingon ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_OUT_003.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008.  A customer check items on sale at the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_OUT_002.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008.  A customer exits the Banana Republic Store located at the Grand Central Terminal. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_OUT_001.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A sale sign in the window of the Ann Taylor-LOFT store in Times Square.  As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_023.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Mother and daughter wait in front of the Gap store on 34th street (Herald Square). As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_022.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers are here in the women's department of the Gap store in Herald Square. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_021.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Lighting on sale in the Restoration Hardware store on 22nd street and Broadway. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_020.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_019.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers go up the stairs of the Gap store of Times Square. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_016.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A sale sign in the window of the Ann Taylor-LOFT store of 42nd street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_015.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers enter the gap store of 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_014.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers exit the Gap store in Herald Square. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_013.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers enter the Restoration Hardware store on 22nd street and Broadway. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_012.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A customer exits the Banana Republic store of 34th street and 5th ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_011.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Sale signs in the Gap store of Herald Square. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_010.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A customer checks items on sale in the Banana Republic store of 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_009.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers check items on sale in the women's department of the Gap store in Times Square. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_008.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A customer checks items on sale in the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_007.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A sale sign and dummies are here in the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexington ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_006.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. Customers check items on sale in the Ann Taylor-LOFT store in Times Square. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_004.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A sale sign in the window of the Banana Republic store of Grand Central Terminal. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_003.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A sale sign in the window of the Ann Taylor of 21st street and 5th ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_001.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008.  Items on sale at the Bloomingdale's department store on 59th street and Lexingon ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_OUT_004.jpg
  • 4 October, 2008. A sale sign in the window of the Ann Taylor of 21st street and 5th ave. As the financial crisis spread last month, many retailers hit the panic button, offering more generous discounts than they did at the same time last year. But the promotions did little to convince cautious shoppers to open their wallets.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Discount_002.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
<br />
Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
<br />
The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30095.jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: Residents of Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, are seen here by the historical center on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A stower processes Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa De Nicola (62), owner of a clothing shop in Calitri who participated in the protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in her shop in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. Luciano Capossela helped organize a protest of the Christmas festival with other local shop owners, who closed their stores for the night and blacked out their windows.  “If we keep going this way in 10 to 15 years we will only have Amazon and everything else will no longer exist,” he said.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Mayor of Calitri Michele di Maio (61) poses for a portriat in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Pasta maker Antonino Moccia (47), poses for a portrait at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, his family owned pasta factory in Gragnano, a hilltop town near the Amalfi Coast with a 500-year history of pasta manufacturing, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait outside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304382.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait in front of the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
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In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
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The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304358.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait inside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
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In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304276.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: The doorknob of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
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In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304106.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
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After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
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Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
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The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30166.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
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After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
<br />
Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
<br />
The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30161.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
<br />
Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
<br />
The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30087.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
<br />
Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
<br />
The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30036.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
<br />
Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
<br />
The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30024.jpg
  • LECCE, ITALY - 10 DECEMBER 2020: Stefania Pala (32), an unemployed, poses for a portrait in Lecce, Apulia, Italy, on December 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
After working in a hotel on Lake Garda, Stefania Pala moved to London where she worked in a pizzeria and lived with her partner from 2015 to 2018. When her partner received a job offer with a permanent contract in Apulia, they moved back. "We could finally ask for a loan, get married and buy a house", she said.  She has worked occasionally as a head waiter on short-term contracts during peak season in Apulia. Her last job was at a resort last summer, but has been unemployed ever since. During her last job interview for an available position as a paid intern (750 euros for 44 hours/week) in art supplies store, the potential employer asked her if she had children or if she had intention to have any. Uncertain how to respond, Stefania Pala laughed uncomfortably and replied she had two cats. She wasn't hired.<br />
<br />
Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic’s employment shock hit women harder than men across much of the Western world. The impact on women has been especially severe in Southern Italy, which already has Europe’s widest employment gender gap.<br />
<br />
In Italy, 51 percent of women work compared with 68 percent of men, the seventh highest women’s unemployment rate in the world despite improvements in the last decade<br />
<br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published by the World Economic Forum prior to the pandemic states that the advancement of women has regressed by nearly a century.  Italy has performed worse than most European nations in this analysis, falling six spots to seventeenth position in Europe; only Greece, Malta and Cyprus fared more poorly.<br />
<br />
The gender pay gap highlights the most critical issue. On average, non-university-educated men earn 6,000 euro more than women with a degree in Italy.
    CIPG_20201210_WSJ_ITWOMEN_7M30057.jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: A view of the farm and land of  Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca, here in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, oon November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
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Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The so-called blood apples (because of their reddish pulp), a variety of native apples grown by Giuseppe Nardoia (74), are seen here in his farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, oon November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here at work on his tractor in his farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss old-age and survivors' insurance  of Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss salary papers of Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, are seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss salary papers of Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, are seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020:  Marta Rocca (66),  an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with her husband Giuseppe Nardoia (74) - later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen her holding her Swiss permits and documents, in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss B residency permit of Marta Rocca (66), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with her husband Giuseppe Nardoia (74)- later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss B residency permit of Marta Rocca (66), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with her husband Giuseppe Nardoia (74)- later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss B residency permit of Marta Rocca (66), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with her husband Giuseppe Nardoia (74)- later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss B residency permit of Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss B residency permit of Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: The Swiss B residency permit of Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, is seen here in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppe Nardoia (74), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland  who - together with his wife Marta Rocca - later decided to move back to their hometown, walks in his farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: (L-R) Giuseppe Nardoia (74) and his wife Marta Rocca (66), Italian immigrants in Switzerland who later decided to move back to their hometown, pose for a portrait in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
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Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
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They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
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  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: (L-R) Giuseppe Nardoia (74) and his wife Marta Rocca (66), Italian immigrants in Switzerland who later decided to move back to their hometown, pose for a portrait in their farm in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
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Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
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They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: A view of Ferrazzaano, the hometown of Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca, in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
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<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
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They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • FERRAZZANO, ITALY - 16 NOVEMBER 2020: A view of Ferrazzaano, the hometown of Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca, in Ferrazzano, Molise, Italy, on November 16th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Nardoia and his wife Marta Rocca moved back to their hometown Ferrazzano after 10 years of liviing and working in Switzerland. They used their savings to build their house, buy land and become farmers. Today, Giuseppe Nardoia is successfully engaged in the protection of native fruit trees (vine, apple tree, pear tree, etc). <br />
<br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201116_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • PASSO CORESE, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2020: Francesca Gemma (30), an Amazon employee and union representative, poses for a portrait by the Amazon facility where she works in Passo Corese, just outside Rome,  on September 22nd 2020.<br />
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When Francesca Gemma graduated from college in 2017, Amazon was the only company hiring. “On the first day the muscles of my legs felt like I had done a marathon, I couldn’t climb up the stairs,” she said. “It’s not for everyone, but it’s a job.”  Ms. Gemma, a union representative, said that orders at her fulfillment center skyrocketed during the lockdown and have remained high. She wondered why Amazon did not provide warehouse staff more in bonuses to share in the success. “Nothing remained for workers,” she said. <br />
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Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200922_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M307...jpg
  • PASSO CORESE, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2020: Francesca Gemma (30), an Amazon employee and union representative, poses for a portrait by the Amazon facility where she works in Passo Corese, just outside Rome,  on September 22nd 2020.<br />
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When Francesca Gemma graduated from college in 2017, Amazon was the only company hiring. “On the first day the muscles of my legs felt like I had done a marathon, I couldn’t climb up the stairs,” she said. “It’s not for everyone, but it’s a job.”  Ms. Gemma, a union representative, said that orders at her fulfillment center skyrocketed during the lockdown and have remained high. She wondered why Amazon did not provide warehouse staff more in bonuses to share in the success. “Nothing remained for workers,” she said. <br />
<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200922_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M307...jpg
  • PASSO CORESE, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2020: Francesca Gemma (30), an Amazon employee and union representative, poses for a portrait by the Amazon facility where she works in Passo Corese, just outside Rome,  on September 22nd 2020.<br />
<br />
When Francesca Gemma graduated from college in 2017, Amazon was the only company hiring. “On the first day the muscles of my legs felt like I had done a marathon, I couldn’t climb up the stairs,” she said. “It’s not for everyone, but it’s a job.”  Ms. Gemma, a union representative, said that orders at her fulfillment center skyrocketed during the lockdown and have remained high. She wondered why Amazon did not provide warehouse staff more in bonuses to share in the success. “Nothing remained for workers,” she said. <br />
<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200922_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M307...jpg
  • PASSO CORESE, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2020: Francesca Gemma (30), an Amazon employee and union representative, poses for a portrait by the Amazon facility where she works in Passo Corese, just outside Rome,  on September 22nd 2020.<br />
<br />
When Francesca Gemma graduated from college in 2017, Amazon was the only company hiring. “On the first day the muscles of my legs felt like I had done a marathon, I couldn’t climb up the stairs,” she said. “It’s not for everyone, but it’s a job.”  Ms. Gemma, a union representative, said that orders at her fulfillment center skyrocketed during the lockdown and have remained high. She wondered why Amazon did not provide warehouse staff more in bonuses to share in the success. “Nothing remained for workers,” she said. <br />
<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200922_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M307...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_DJI_0...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_DJI_0...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A man and his mother walk in the coutryside of Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A man enters a cafe in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A woman walks in the historical center of Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020:An abandoned poultry shop is on sale here in the historical center of Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A woman walks in the historical center of Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A woman walks in the historical center of Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A stower processes Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A receiver processes Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A stower processes Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A stower processes Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: Diverters process Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A diverter processes Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: An unloader and a receiver process Amazon packages at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200918_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M306...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: A Water Spider unloads a truck of Amazon packages that will be processed at the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 18th 2020.<br />
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Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
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Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
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  • ARZANO, ITALY - 17 SEPTEMBER 2020: An aerial of the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200917_NYT-Amazon-Italy_DJI_0...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 17 SEPTEMBER 2020: An aerial of the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200917_NYT-Amazon-Italy_DJI_0...jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An aerial of the Amazon delivery station in Arzano, just outside Naples, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Opened in 2019, the Amazon delivery station in Arzano was the first to open in Southern Italy. Here, an average of 30,000 to 50,000 Amazon packages are processed and delivered in the region.<br />
<br />
   plans to open two new fulfillment centers and seven delivery stations. Roughly 1,600 more people will be hired by the end of the year, pushing its full-time work force in Italy to 8,500 from less than 200 in 2011. <br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_DJI_0...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An Amazon locker is seen here in a supermarker in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An Amazon locker is seen here in a supermarker in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An Amazon locker is seen here in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: Salvatore Ciliberti (31), retrieves his Amazon order at an Amazon locker is seen here in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: Salvatore Ciliberti (31), retrieves his Amazon order at an Amazon locker is seen here in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • MONTECORVINO ROVELLA, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An Amazon customers receives a package in Montecorvino Rovella, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • MONTECORVINO ROVELLA, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An Amazon contractor delivers a package in Montecorvino Rovella, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • MONTECORVINO ROVELLA, ITALY - 16 SEPTEMBER 2020: An Amazon contractor delivers a package in Montecorvino Rovella, Italy, on September 16th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200916_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa De Nicola (62), owner of a clothing shop in Calitri who participated in the protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in her shop in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
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In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. Luciano Capossela helped organize a protest of the Christmas festival with other local shop owners, who closed their stores for the night and blacked out their windows.  “If we keep going this way in 10 to 15 years we will only have Amazon and everything else will no longer exist,” he said.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa De Nicola (62), owner of a clothing shop in Calitri who participated in the protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in her shop in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. Luciano Capossela helped organize a protest of the Christmas festival with other local shop owners, who closed their stores for the night and blacked out their windows.  “If we keep going this way in 10 to 15 years we will only have Amazon and everything else will no longer exist,” he said.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa De Nicola (62), owner of a clothing shop in Calitri who participated in the protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in her shop in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. Luciano Capossela helped organize a protest of the Christmas festival with other local shop owners, who closed their stores for the night and blacked out their windows.  “If we keep going this way in 10 to 15 years we will only have Amazon and everything else will no longer exist,” he said.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa De Nicola (62), owner of a clothing shop in Calitri who participated in the protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in her shop in Calitri, a village of 4,000 people in southern Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
In Calitry Amazon sponsored a local Christmas festival last year as part of a marketing campaign to show it could reach even the most isolated areas. It paid for a big Christmas tree in the town square and provided gifts to local children. The town’s mayor hoped it would lead more local artisans and farmers to sell their products through Amazon. Luciano Capossela helped organize a protest of the Christmas festival with other local shop owners, who closed their stores for the night and blacked out their windows.  “If we keep going this way in 10 to 15 years we will only have Amazon and everything else will no longer exist,” he said.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
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