Every weekday morning while most Oklahomans are still fast asleep, nearly 5,000 employees pass through the doors at the massive Hobby Lobby distribution complex in southwest Oklahoma City and scan the code on their badges, clocking in for work. The sun is yet to rise, but it’s a warm and humid July morning. And inside, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Amazon heist
Forget porch pirates! Jason Kravis took Amazon package theft to a whole new level when he stole an entire delivery van in Tulsa. He would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling police officers. Surveillance video shows Kravis getting out of a green Chevy SUV and jumping into an Amazon van […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Job fulfillment?
Sorry we’re late, but a happy belated Amazon OKC1 Fulfillment Center Day to you and yours. In case you missed it, Gov. Kevin Stitt proclaimed Aug. 25 as a day celebrating the official launch of Amazon’s first Oklahoma fulfillment center. According to a press release faithfully regurgitated by too many local media outlets to name […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Okie singularity
Something as simple as how we get our groceries could make you realize that technological singularity — the moment at which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence — might be closer than we all realize. In the same week that Amazon added Oklahoma City as one of 10 new cities able to order deliveries from […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Job fulfillment?
All of the tributes at the altar of the free market paid off last week when Oklahoma City officials announced that online retail giant Amazon will be building a 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in south Oklahoma City. Amazon plans to employ about 1,750 people at the center, which is the first cog in the transportation process […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Amazon priming
Specifics of Tulsa’s proposal to entice online retailer Amazon to build its second headquarters in the Sooner State remain a mystery due to an open records loophole.
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Gazedibles: Daybreak Dishes
Wake up, jump out of bed and visit one of OKC’s tastiest breakfast spots.
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The most amazing Chicken-Fried News you’ll ever read
Credit: Brad Gregg Odds are it was Bixby resident Todd Jason Rutherford. The New York Times reports that in 2010, Mr. Rutherford launched the website GettingBookReviews.com. He advertised to self-published authors eager to expand their fan base beyond friends and family members that he would write one review of their sparkling masterpiece for $99. For […]
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Patti Smith — Outside Society
But you can easily imagine Smith swaying back and forth for three and a half minutes, plinking on a grand piano Elton John-style, her voice trembling for the punishment she’s soon to inflict with the song’s grand finale. In the liner notes of her forthcoming greatest hits compilation, the songwriter reflects that the track is […]
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Erasing David
It’s a great idea for a stunt film, but terribly executed — a doc for the overly paranoid and the flat-out clueless. Before going off the grid, Bond requests documents from companies he’s done business with and is absolutely stunned — stunned — at the devious, nefarious things he learns. Amazon knows everyone he’s sent […]