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  Amazon Faces Backlash Over One Of Its Budget Cuts
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However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. \"With so many eligible organizations -- more than 1 million globally -- our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin.\"Many people who participated in the program and observed it disagree, or at least think Amazon should have changed it, not killed it, according to comments on a RetailWire story about the closure.AmazonSmile Gets Mixed ReviewsA trade magazine of sorts, RetailWire asks for comments on its stories and often gets contributions from qualified industry sources and academics. In this case it asked the following questions:Was AmazonSmile too idealistically conceived, poorly executed, or given up on too early?What lessons does it offer about charitable donation programs tied to purchases?That elicited responses from some qualified people.\"One would hope that this is not the end–but that they will re-conceptualize their effort. A program that supports one million charities strikes me as one with no focus. AmazonSmile was conceived as a great idea, but how to correctly execute it was never considered,\" wrote Gene Destroyer, visiting lecturer on international business at Guangzhou University of Finance and Economics and at the University of Sanya in Hainan Province, China.Cambridge Retail Advisors Managing Partner Ken Morris agreed that AmazonSmile should exist, albeit with some changes.\"AmazonSmile made it easy for shoppers to feel good about buying from Amazon. Channeling almost $550 million into charities worldwide -- of each shopper’s choice -- is far from negative,\" he wrote.Morris was not unsympathetic to the challenge of running such a diverse program.\"I also get the logistical challenge of over a million charitable organizations. I think, even for Amazon, this was overwhelming. It would be good if Amazon could focus its efforts on encouraging giving, but in a way that’s not so resource intensive. 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