Amazon to end AmazonSmile charity programme

'Has not created the impact we originally hoped'

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Amazon is ending AmazonSmile charity programme next month
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Amazon is ending AmazonSmile charity programme next month

Amazon has announced that it is shutting down AmazonSmile, a programme it introduced in 2013 to enable users to support charities when making purchases.

Amazon contributes 0.5% of the price of purchases made on AmazonSmile - an alternate version of Amazon - to customers' preferred charitable cause. Amazon now says it will discontinue AmazonSmile...

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