Amazon.com, with total company first quarter 2017 sales up 23 percent to $35.7 billion, is a disrupter wherever it goes. Just ask Sears, Macy’s, Borders Books, Tower Records and Whole Foods. But its present and future impact on the safety supply chain is really part of a larger story.

Empire Safety & Supply, a full-line distributor of safety supplies, recently launched a totally redesigned, fully optimized, mobile responsive website.