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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001214659-25-006309
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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250424
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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AMAZON COM INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001018724
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-CATALOG & MAIL-ORDER HOUSES [5961]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	07 Trade & Services
		EIN:				911646860
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-22513
		FILM NUMBER:		25865934

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		STREET 1:		410 TERRY AVENUE NORTH
		CITY:			SEATTLE
		STATE:			WA
		ZIP:			98109
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2062661000

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		STREET 1:		410 TERRY AVENUE NORTH
		CITY:			SEATTLE
		STATE:			WA
		ZIP:			98109

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		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AS YOU SOW
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001086462
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		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			CA

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	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2150 KITTREDGE ST.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 450
		CITY:			BERKELEY
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94704
		BUSINESS PHONE:		510-735-8155

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		STREET 1:		2150 KITTREDGE ST.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 450
		CITY:			BERKELEY
		STATE:			CA
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<P STYLE="font: bold 16pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Amazon.com (AMZN)<BR>
Vote Yes: Item # 9</P>

<P STYLE="font: 16pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Sustainable Packaging Policies for Flexible
Plastics</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-weight: normal">Annual Meeting:
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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 9pt; background-color: #B8CCE4">THE RESOLUTION&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>RESOLVED: </B>Shareholders request that the Board issue a report,
at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, describing how Amazon could address flexible plastic packaging in alignment
with the findings of the Pew Report, or other authoritative sources, to reduce its contribution to plastic pollution.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>SUPPORTING STATEMENT: </B>The report should, at Board discretion:</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD>Assess the reputational, financial, and operational risks associated with continuing to use non-recyclable plastic packaging while
plastic pollution grows;</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD>Evaluate actions to achieve fully recyclable packaging including elimination and accelerated research into innovative reusable substitution;
and</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD>Describe opportunities to pre-competitively work with peers to research and develop reusable packaging as an alternative to single-use
packaging.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 9pt; background-color: #B8CCE4">SUMMARY</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Without immediate and sustained new commitments throughout the plastics
value chain, annual flows of plastics into oceans could nearly triple by 2040.<SUP>1</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">_____________________________</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>1</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.4 &nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The growing plastic pollution crisis poses increasing risks to Amazon.
Corporations could face an annual financial risk of approximately $100 billion should governments require them to cover the waste management
costs of the packaging they use.<SUP>2</SUP> Governments around the world are increasingly enacting such producer responsibility policies,
including five new U.S. state laws that impose fees on corporations for single-use plastic (SUP) packaging.<SUP>3</SUP> The European Union
has banned ten common SUP pollutants and imposed a tax on non-recycled plastic packaging waste.<SUP>4</SUP> A French law requires 10%
of packaging be reusable by 2027 and Portugal requires 30% reusable packaging by 2030.<SUP>5</SUP> Additionally, consumer demand for sustainable
packaging is increasing.<SUP>6</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Pew Charitable Trusts&rsquo; groundbreaking and authoritative study,
<I>Breaking the Plastic Wave</I> (the &ldquo;Pew Report&rdquo;), concluded that improved recycling alone is insufficient to address plastic
pollution&mdash;instead, recycling must be coupled with reductions in use, materials redesign, and substitution.<SUP>7</SUP> The Pew Report
finds that the greatest opportunity to reduce or eliminate plastic lies with flexible plastic packaging, often used for chips, sweets,
and condiments among other uses, which is virtually unrecyclable in America. With innovation, redesign, and substitution, 26 million metric
tons of plastic flexible packaging can be avoided globally.<SUP>8</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Pew Report finds that reducing plastic use is the most viable solution
from environmental, economic, and social perspectives, yet broad corporate and stakeholder alignment on flexible packaging solutions is
lacking.<SUP>9</SUP> Amazon could avoid regulatory, environmental, and competitive risks by adopting a comprehensive approach to addressing
flexible plastic packaging use at scale.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">After being engaged by investors including <I>As You Sow</I>, and activists
for several years, Amazon finally disclosed how much plastic delivery packaging it uses for its e-commerce business (195 million pounds)
but has not disclosed the volume of plastic packaging of its own private branded products as well as those of its Whole Foods Market subsidiary.
To be clear, this proposal does not address the packaging in which Amazon delivers products&mdash;its own or others-- but the flexible
packaging in which Amazon&rsquo;s products themselves are sold, e.g., food pouches, laundry detergent pouches, clothing wraps.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Proponents filed this proposal because Amazon has not disclosed how
much flexible product packaging it uses, as many competitors have, or made a time-bound commitment, as scores of peers have, to make all
its product packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable. Our proposal asks the Company to report how it could reduce its use of
flexible packaging in alignment with the findings of the Pew Report or other authoritative sources.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">_____________________________</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>2</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.9</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>3</SUP> https://www.packworld.com/sustainable-packaging/recycling/article/22922253/ameripen-shares-key-lessons-from-early-epr-adopters</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>4</SUP> https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/plastics/single-use-plastics_en</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>5</SUP> https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/51843/plastics-reuse-and-refill-laws</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>6</SUP> https://www.shorr.com/resources/blog/the-2022-sustainable-packaging-consumer-report/</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>7</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.9</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>8</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.51; https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf, p.51</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>9</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.10; https://emf.thirdlight.com/link/pqm3hmtgpwtn-dwj3yc, p.22
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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 9pt; background-color: #B8CCE4">RATIONALE FOR A YES
VOTE</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>2.</B></TD><TD><B>The Company has failed to develop product packaging reduction goals in alignment with key research and initiatives, including the
Pew Report and New Plastics Economy Global Commitment.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>3.</B></TD><TD><B>Amazon lags competitors on commitments and plastics disclosure.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>1.</B></TD><TD><B>Flexible plastic packaging pollution is a growing risk to Amazon. </B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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Consumers and governments across the globe are increasingly holding producers accountable for plastic packaging pollution and its wide
range of negative effects on human and environmental health.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 6pt"><BR>
</FONT>Global leaders from 193 U.N. Member States are in the process of negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution. Mandates
are being considered for legally binding plastic use reductions, recyclability, and transitions away from disposable packaging and towards
reusables.<SUP>10</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Flexible plastic packaging is especially susceptible to becoming plastic
pollution as its multi-layer and multi-material nature makes it virtually impossible to process in conventional recycling systems. The
largest corporate collaboration on plastic pollution, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (Global Commitment),
defines recyclable packaging to include only those plastics that have a 30% recycling rate across multiple regions that collectively represent
at least 400 million inhabitants. With just 2% of households in the United States able to effectively recycle flexible packaging, <SUP>11</SUP>
this packaging type falls far below the standard for recyclability and is widely regarded as unrecyclable.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Extended Producer Responsibility (&ldquo;EPR&rdquo;) is a system designed
to manage both unrecyclable and recyclable packaging in which producers are held responsible for all or most of the costs of managing
disposable packaging at its end-of-life. Nearly 70 EPR laws for packaging have been enacted in countries and jurisdictions around the
world.<SUP>12</SUP> Corporations could face an annual collective financial risk of approximately $100 billion should governments continue,
as expected, to require them to cover the waste management costs of the packaging they produce.<SUP>13</SUP> In just the last few years,
five new laws to this effect were passed in Maine, Oregon, California, Colorado, and Minnesota.<SUP>14</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>10</SUP> https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/speech/closing-end-plastic-pollution</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>11</SUP> https://recyclingpartnership.org/film-and-flexibles/</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>12</SUP> https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/extended-producer-responsibility-epr-and-the-impact-of-online-sales_cde28569-en,
p. 10</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>13</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/07/breakingtheplasticwave_report.pdf</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>14</SUP> https://www.swca.com/news/2025/01/unpacking-epr-series-the-basics-of-extended-producer-responsibility-epr-packaging-laws</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">EPR laws for packaging have a specific emphasis on financially discouraging
the use of difficult-to-recycle materials by imposing higher producer fees, known as dues, on these materials, a process known as eco-modulation.
The operating plans in each of the five states that passed EPR laws are actively being written, but current drafts propose that flexible
packaging should have one of the highest ranges of fees, or dues, on producers per pound.<SUP>15</SUP> Because a significant amount of
Amazon&rsquo;s plastic packaging is in flexibles, growing EPR laws pose an additional cost and financial risk to Amazon.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Amazon is conspicuously absent from a group of leading businesses including
competitors Ahold Delhaize, Aldi, Target, and Walmart who are signatories to the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty. Signatories
acknowledge plastic pollution as a severe threat to business&rsquo; social license to operate and advocate for reduced plastic production.<SUP>16</SUP>
Thirteen national and regional Plastics Pacts have formed in the last few years to uphold and accelerate corporate responsibility and
a circular economy for plastics. Amazon, unlike competitors Aldi, Target, and Unilever, is not a member of the U.S. Plastics Pact, which
seeks to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025.<SUP>17</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Companies that do not move swiftly to reduce their use of single use
flexible plastic for packaging also risk reputational damage and lost customers. As recent polls indicate, consumers want companies to
take action on plastics. Eighty percent of respondents in one recent poll favored requiring companies to reduce plastic packaging, increase
the use of reusable packaging, and take responsibility for their plastic waste.<SUP>18</SUP>&nbsp;In an April 2024 poll, 90% of those
polled were in favor of finding alternatives to single use plastics and 88% called for elimination of unnecessary and avoidable plastic.<SUP>19&nbsp;</SUP></P>

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and the Global Commitment.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">In 2020, the watershed Pew Report concluded that reduction of plastic
waste is the most viable solution from environmental, economic, and social perspectives. Without immediate and sustained new commitments
across the plastics value chain, annual flows of plastics into oceans could nearly triple by 2040.<SUP>20</SUP></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Pew Report states that existing corporate commitments are insufficient
to tackle ocean plastic pollution and that corporations must reduce their virgin plastic use by one third through a variety of strategies,
including designing packaging to be recyclable in practice and at scale and eliminating or replacing single-use packaging with reusables.
The Pew Report identifies flexible plastic packaging as the greatest opportunity to reduce plastic use. With innovation, redesign, and
substitution, 26 million metric tons of flexibles can be avoided globally.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>15</SUP> https://cdphe.colorado.gov/hm/epr-program</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>16</SUP> https://www.businessforplasticstreaty.org/endorsers#brand-owners-and-retailers</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>17</SUP> https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/the-plastics-pact-network</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>18</SUP> https://usa.oceana.org/press-releases/americans-are-sick-of-single-use-plastic-pollution-poll-finds/</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>19</SUP> https://www.nrdc.org/bio/daniel-rosenberg/poll-people-want-action-plastics-health-and-wildlife</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>20</SUP> https://www.systemiq.earth/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BreakingThePlasticWave_MainReport.pdf</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Amazon&rsquo;s unwillingness to state the amount of flexible plastic
it uses or to commit to a specific level of reduction leaves it out of sync with the reductions deemed essential in the Pew Report findings.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Further, Amazon is notably absent from participating in the Ellen MacArthur
Global Commitment. At least 60 consumer goods and retail companies, including competitors Target, Unilever, and Walmart have adopted goals
to drastically stem plastic flows into the ocean by 2025 and beyond, including significant efforts to adopt Pew Report recommendations
(reduce plastic use, make all packaging recyclable, and transition to reusable and refillable formats). In the absence of membership in
the Global Commitment or a clear alignment with industry-leading packaging ambitions, Amazon faces substantial competitive risk. As major
competitors increasingly commit to aggressive plastic reduction goals and alternatives to flexible packaging, Amazon risks falling behind
in the eyes of consumers, retailers, and investors.</P>

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After being engaged by investors including As You Sow, as well as non-investor activists<FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT>
like Oceana, for several years, the Company finally disclosed how much plastic delivery packaging it uses for its e-commerce business,
but it has not disclosed the volume of plastic packaging used by its own private branded products as well as those of its Whole Foods
Market subsidiary.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Competitors Target and Walmart have disclosed the volume of plastic
packaging for their products as well as the subset percentage of flexible plastics as part of membership in the Global Commitment.<SUP>21</SUP>
As noted above, at least 60 consumer goods and retail companies, including competitors Target, Unilever, and Walmart have adopted time
bound goals to transition their packaging to be recyclable, reusable or compostable. Amazon has not. The Company recently stated that
its Whole Foods Market subsidiary is &rdquo;working toward making 100% of its own packaging, including private label and in-store food
service packaging, reusable, recyclable, or compostable.&rdquo; This is welcome news but of limited value because there is no time attached
to it, unlike its competitors, most of whom are committed to achieving their goals by 2025 or 2030. Amazon has not indicated a similar
effort for its more than 100 private label goods, including food and beverages packaged in single use flexible plastic containers.&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 9pt; background-color: #B8CCE4">RESPONSE TO AMAZON&rsquo;S
BOARD OF DIRECTORS&rsquo; STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The majority of Amazon&rsquo;s statement in opposition does not apply
to this proposal because the details provided relate mostly to products repackaged for delivery, products manufactured by other companies,
and Amazon devices, which are not the focus of this proposal &ndash; flexible plastic product packaging. .</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Only one of the four sections is directly relevant to our proposal,
the information on physical stores.&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">___________<FONT STYLE="font-size: 9pt">__________________</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>21</SUP> https://gc-data.emf.org&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">For example, the Company begins by stating that it already publicly
reports on the amount of single-use plastic, including flexible plastic, being used across its global operations to ship orders to customers.
This is irrelevant as the proposal clearly deals with flexible plastic product packaging (i.e. pouches), not packaging used to ship orders
to customers.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>The Company does not acknowledge or respond to the core focus of
the proposal -- that it has not released any information about the amount of flexible (or other) plastic used to package its private label
products and those sold by its Whole Foods Market subsidiary.</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Company seeks to discount the importance of our proposal by asserting
&ldquo;In contrast to consumer-packaged goods companies, our greatest impact comes from reducing our use of plastic for products repackaged
for delivery. To that end, we are rapidly making progress to significantly reduce our use of single-use plastic, including flexible plastic
packaging.&rdquo; First, this statement provides no data to back up its assertion that product repackaging has a more significant impact
than product packaging. Second, if we assume the Board&rsquo;s assertion is true, then simply because the greatest impact comes from plastic
for products repackaged for delivery does not mean that the actual product packaging is without significant impact as well, especially
flexible plastic packaging. One only needs to enter a Whole Foods Market to view hundreds of packages in non-recyclable pouches on its
shelves, of which nearly all will end up in a landfill or incinerated.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Company states it is a member of groups like The Recycling Partnership
&ldquo;to help launch recycling programs in communities across the United States.&rdquo; However, its level of commitment is questionable
given its enormous market size and impact. In its Sustainability report, Amazon says its participation worked to &ldquo;help launch&nbsp;recycling
programs in communities across the U.S. . . . that reached more than 36,000 households and recycled&nbsp;1&nbsp;million pounds of materials.&rdquo;
This is a drop in the bucket compared to the 195 million pounds of plastic the Company generates annually just to deliver products to
consumers via its e-commerce site. Further, Amazon fails to acknowledge that the infrastructure to <I>actually</I> recycle flexible packaging&mdash;the
focus of our proposal--does not exist in the U.S. Without a credible, well-funded plan to drive immediate improvements in U.S. recycling
infrastructure, the Company risks being perceived as engaging in sustainability greenwashing.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">In conclusion, the Company must urgently accelerate its transition
away from problematic flexible formats of its product packaging to align with the reductions stated in the Pew Report, while also investing
at exponentially higher rates to improve recycling infrastructure for flexible packaging. The lack of clear disclosure of overall plastic
use throughout Amazon&rsquo;s operations, as well as lack of disclosures relating to flexible plastics in product packaging, is a concerning
lapse in corporate responsibility that leaves investors in the dark about the Company&rsquo;s performance against critical plastic packaging
goals accepted by many of its competitors.&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 9pt; background-color: #B8CCE4">CONCLUSION</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Our proposal asks the Company to report how it could reduce its use
of flexible packaging in alignment with the findings of the Pew Report or other authoritative sources. Proponents filed this proposal
because Amazon has not disclosed how much flexible product packaging it uses, as many competitors have, or made a time-bound commitment,
as many peers have, to make all its product packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Vote &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; on this Shareholder Proposal #9</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><I>For questions, please contact Conrad MacKerron, As You Sow, mack@asyousow.org</I></P>

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