Amazon nears hiring goal, plans to postpone Prime Day

Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has reached 80 percent of its hiring goal nationwide — and surpassed three-quarters of its Texas goal — but the company might have to postpone one of its busiest shopping events of the year.

Amazon announced in mid-March it would hire an additional 100,000 workers in the United States — including 5,900 in Texas — and temporarily boost wages for current employees by $2 per hour. The company said it needed tens of thousands of part- and full-time…