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is nbc's brian cheung at garden state plaza mall in new jersey and cnbc analyst and commentator ron insana. ron i i want to begin with you. less let's talk about amazon first. what's this protest going to do? >> i'm not sure. some of these larger firms are successful in warding off employee deems even as wage prices have been building in the post-pandemic world and some employers have acquiesced and given larger than normal pay raises because of the inflation you talked about earlier. amazon is automating rather dramatically in some of the warehouse operations between robots and the like and it is hard to say whether or not workers at this juncture have the levers that they had a few months ago. obviously, if it disrupts business activity around this all-important holiday shopping season, which is black friday, through cyber monday, just to start, then amazon may be forced to make at least a few concessions to get through the holidays without too much damage to the bottom line. >> is it much different for those protesting in other countries and europe and are the protests different and per