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  • 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 />
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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_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...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
  • 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: 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 />
<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: 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
  • 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 />
<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 diverter 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Luciano Capossela (38), a jeweler who helped organise a protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in his workshop 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: Luciano Capossela (38), a jeweler who helped organise a protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in his workshop 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
  • 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
  • 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: An employee organises the pasta on display here at the shop of La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: The Caccavella pasta is seen here at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Workers select and package pasta at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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_7M304...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Pappardelle pasta are seen here at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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_7M304...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Pasta maker Antonino Moccia (47), puts a wrack of pasta to driver in a cell 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 />
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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_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M304...jpg
  • AVELLINIO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Ludovica Tomaciello (19), who is pursuing a language degree and a recenr Amazon customer, poses for a portrait. in Avellino, Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
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Ludovica Tomaciello had never shopped on Amazon before being trapped at her parents’ house in March during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.  But even when stores reopened in May, Amazon remained her preferred way to shop because of the convenience, variety and prices, 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_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M304...jpg
  • AVELLINIO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Ludovica Tomaciello (19), who is pursuing a language degree and a recenr Amazon customer, poses for a portrait. in Avellino, Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
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Ludovica Tomaciello had never shopped on Amazon before being trapped at her parents’ house in March during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.  But even when stores reopened in May, Amazon remained her preferred way to shop because of the convenience, variety and prices, she 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_7M304...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 />
<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 />
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<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 />
<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_DJI_0...jpg
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 18 SEPTEMBER 2020: in 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_DJI_0...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 />
<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 elderly man walks 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: An abandoned building for sale is seen 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
  • 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 />
<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 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: 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: 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 />
<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 Amazon truck is seen here as it is being unloaded to 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 />
<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 - 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 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: 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 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 />
<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
  • CALITRI, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Luciano Capossela (38), a jeweler who helped organise a protest against the Amazon event, poses for a portrait in his workshop 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: Luciano Capossela (38), a jeweler who helped organise a protest against the Amazon event, is seen here at work in his workshop 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: Luciano Capossela (38), a jeweler who helped organise a protest against the Amazon event, is seen here at work in his workshop 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
  • 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 />
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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 />
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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_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 />
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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_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 />
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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_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M305...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: The Caccavella pasta is seen here at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Workers select and package pasta at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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_7M304...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020:  A worker places a label on a package of pappardelle pasta here at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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_7M304...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Chili pepper linguini pasta are seen here as they dry in a cell at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a 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_7M304...jpg
  • AVELLINIO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Ludovica Tomaciello (19), who is pursuing a language degree and a recenr Amazon customer, poses for a portrait. in Avellino, Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
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Ludovica Tomaciello had never shopped on Amazon before being trapped at her parents’ house in March during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.  But even when stores reopened in May, Amazon remained her preferred way to shop because of the convenience, variety and prices, 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_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M304...jpg
  • AVELLINIO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Ludovica Tomaciello (19), who is pursuing a language degree and a recenr Amazon customer, poses for a portrait. in Avellino, Italy, on September 15th 2020.<br />
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Ludovica Tomaciello had never shopped on Amazon before being trapped at her parents’ house in March during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.  But even when stores reopened in May, Amazon remained her preferred way to shop because of the convenience, variety and prices, she 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_7M304...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Saturno, a 13 years old third grade student, spends time on his smartphone on his bed, where he also sits to rarely attend online school classes, at home in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesco spent his mornings helping in his grandfather’s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his Playstation. He only twice logged on to his online class. His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples. “I am scared that if he doesn’t go to school he is going to get lost,” she said. “And getting lost in Naples is dangerous.”<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo D
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Saturno, a 13 years old third grade student, spends time on his smartphone on his bed, where he also sits to rarely attend online school classes, at home in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesco spent his mornings helping in his grandfather’s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his Playstation. He only twice logged on to his online class. His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples. “I am scared that if he doesn’t go to school he is going to get lost,” she said. “And getting lost in Naples is dangerous.”<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo D
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Saturno, a 13 years old third grade student, spends time on his smartphone on his bed, where he also sits to rarely attend online school classes, at home in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesco spent his mornings helping in his grandfather’s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his Playstation. He only twice logged on to his online class. His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples. “I am scared that if he doesn’t go to school he is going to get lost,” she said. “And getting lost in Naples is dangerous.”<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo D
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Uccello (48), an Italian teacher, is seen here teaching an online class to his third grade students at the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. “Here parents have a hard time considering school as something important in life,” he said, “The kids don’t have anyone telling them to wake up for class.”  Over the past months, the school has also organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to sc
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Uccello (48), an Italian teacher, is seen here teaching an online class to his third grade students at the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. “Here parents have a hard time considering school as something important in life,” he said, “The kids don’t have anyone telling them to wake up for class.”  Over the past months, the school has also organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to sc
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Saturno, 1 13 years old third grade student, is seen here at the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Over the past months, the school has organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. Francesco Saturno spent his mornings helping in his grandfather’s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his Playstation. He only twice logged on to his online class. His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples. “I am scared that if he doesn’t go to school he is going to get lost,” she said. “And getting lost in Naples is dangerous.”<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Uccello (48), an Italian teacher, is seen here teaching an online class to his third grade students at the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. “Here parents have a hard time considering school as something important in life,” he said, “The kids don’t have anyone telling them to wake up for class.”  Over the past months, the school has also organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to sc
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Giordano Francesco (16, right), who risks dropping out of school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Giordano said he often fell asleep, grew bored and frustrated with the online classes he followed on his phone. He got into arguments with teachers because he often logged off to help his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s disease, eat or use the bathroom. His mother, who left school at ten and lost her job as a theater cleaner during the pandemic, asked him to finish the school year. He said he would, and then drop out.<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between Se
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 15 APRIL 2021: Francesco Uccello (48) is seen here teaching an Italian online class on the smartphone of his third grade student Antonia Sivero (13), in her room in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 15th 2021. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice the European average and in the city’s outskirts it is even higher. Teachers there have struggled to keep students interested in s
    CIPG_20210415_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 15 APRIL 2021: Antonia Sivero (13), a third grade student, attends an online Italian class held by her teacher Francesco Uccello in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 15th 2021. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice the European average and in the city’s outskirts it is even higher. Teachers there have struggled to keep students interested in school, and worry that months of c
    CIPG_20210415_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 15 APRIL 2021: Antonia Sivero (13), a third grade student, attends an online Italian class held by her teacher Francesco Uccello in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 15th 2021. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice the European average and in the city’s outskirts it is even higher. Teachers there have struggled to keep students interested in school, and worry that months of c
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Giordano Francesco (16, right), who risks dropping out of school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Giordano said he often fell asleep, grew bored and frustrated with the online classes he followed on his phone. He got into arguments with teachers because he often logged off to help his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s disease, eat or use the bathroom. His mother, who left school at ten and lost her job as a theater cleaner during the pandemic, asked him to finish the school year. He said he would, and then drop out.<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
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Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
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While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
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The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between Se
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Giordano Francesco (16), who risks dropping out of school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Giordano said he often fell asleep, grew bored and frustrated with the online classes he followed on his phone. He got into arguments with teachers because he often logged off to help his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s disease, eat or use the bathroom. His mother, who left school at ten and lost her job as a theater cleaner during the pandemic, asked him to finish the school year. He said he would, and then drop out.<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
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Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Giordano Francesco (16), who risks dropping out of school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Giordano said he often fell asleep, grew bored and frustrated with the online classes he followed on his phone. He got into arguments with teachers because he often logged off to help his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s disease, eat or use the bathroom. His mother, who left school at ten and lost her job as a theater cleaner during the pandemic, asked him to finish the school year. He said he would, and then drop out.<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Matteo Cantalino (16), who risks dropping out of  school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Matteo said he was failing and got left back with online classes. He'd like to go back to school when they re-open, but he's not sure he will be able to. He'd like to finish his studies and go to college.<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Matteo Cantalino (16), who risks dropping out of  school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Matteo said he was failing and got left back with online classes. He'd like to go back to school when they re-open, but he's not sure he will be able to. He'd like to finish his studies and go to college.<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Matteo Cantalino (16), who risks dropping out of  school, poses for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Matteo said he was failing and got left back with online classes. He'd like to go back to school when they re-open, but he's not sure he will be able to. He'd like to finish his studies and go to college.<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: (R-L) Angela Esposito (33) and her two sons Francesco Saturno (13) and Angelo (10) are seen here at home in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesco spent his mornings helping in his grandfather’s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his Playstation. He only twice logged on to his online class. His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples. “I am scared that if he doesn’t go to school he is going to get lost,” she said. “And getting lost in Naples is dangerous.”<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Saturno, a 13 years old third grade, is seen here at home in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesco spent his mornings helping in his grandfather’s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his Playstation. He only twice logged on to his online class. His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples. “I am scared that if he doesn’t go to school he is going to get lost,” she said. “And getting lost in Naples is dangerous.”<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion t
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: (R-L) Francesca Nardi (16) and Rosa Trotto (17), two soon-to-be school dropouts, pose for a portrait in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesca Nardi lamented her online classes. She is failing, likely to get left back, and would likely drop out. “It’s better if I just work,” Ms. Nardi, 15, said. “And not waste another year.”<br />
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: (R-L) Francesca Nardi (16) and Rosa Trotto (17), two soon-to-be school dropouts, are seen here in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Francesca Nardi lamented her online classes. She is failing, likely to get left back, and would likely drop out. “It’s better if I just work,” Ms. Nardi, 15, said. “And not waste another year.”<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: A student walks in the hallway of the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. Over the past months, the school has organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice the
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Uccello (48), an Italian teacher, poses for a potrait at the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. “Here parents have a hard time considering school as something important in life,” he said, “The kids don’t have anyone telling them to wake up for class.”  Over the past months, the school has also organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high s
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Francesco Uccello (48), an Italian teacher, poses for a potrait at the "Melissa Bassi" middle school in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021. “Here parents have a hard time considering school as something important in life,” he said, “The kids don’t have anyone telling them to wake up for class.”  Over the past months, the school has also organised workshop to get the local kids, who were most likely to not attend the online classes, come to school and build solid personal relationships with the teachers. <br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high s
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