Amazon's secret strategy to replace 600,000 American workers with robots

Internal documents have revealed that Amazon wants to avoid the costly human experience if it can.

A scathing report by the New York Times that compiled interviews, along with what was described as a cache of internal documents, showed that Amazon executives have aspirations of replacing approximately 600,000 U.S. jobs with robots.

'Leaked documents often paint an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans.'

The corporate decisions would allegedly pass on savings to the customer of upwards of 30 cents per item, while at the same time avoiding the hiring of about 160,000 new employees in the United States that would be needed by 2027.

In the internal documents , Amazon executives told their board members it was their hope to avoid making new hires by ramping up robotic automation,