Amazon Is Prioritizing Essential Products as Online Orders Spike

[Franch Toast 27,745]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-17/amazon-prioritizing-essentials-medical-goods-in-virus-response?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social

Amazon.com Inc. is prioritizing the stocking of household staples and medical supplies as it struggles to deal with a surge in demand for online orders from customers avoiding stores during the coronavirus pandemic.

The world’s biggest online retailer said in a blog post updated on Tuesday morning that it was making the move “so we can more quickly receive, restock, and ship these products to customers.” The aim is to keep warehouses stocked with the items people are buying now -- toilet paper, bleach and sanitizing wipes -- so Amazon is temporarily not accepting shipments of non-essential goods like flat-screen televisions and toys.

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In the meantime, Amazon is telling third-party sellers that it won’t accept shipments from them in other product categories through at least April 5. Amazon said it was taking a similar approach with the big brands it buys directly from.

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The new prioritization applies to restocking, not Amazon’s shipments of items already sitting on warehouse shelves.

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The change only limits products sold through Fulfillment by Amazon, a service through which online merchants pay Amazon to store, pack and ship their products sold on the site. Amazon’s marketplace merchants can continue to sell non-essential products, but they have to manage packing and shipping to customers on their own.

[OBEY 57,109]

I've decided to boycott them long ago bc they're trash. Hopefully some of you can do the same if you can afford to  

[Dominic 11,922]

They've enforced compulsory overtime for workers in the UK. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-51921916

[TheBadRomancer 1,046]

There aren't even essential products available on the site anymore for them to prioritize

[Hachi 61]

5 minutes ago, TheBadRomancer said:

There aren't even essential products available on the site anymore for them to prioritize

Lmao this.... I literally can’t even choose a drop off date or time now or ever in the future..sooo what exactly are they delivering. 

[Hachi 61]

It’s business as usual for me as a healthcare worker so while everyone has off work buying everything from the supermarket to last them for 5 years; it’s slim pickings for me once I get off work... so yeah... any kind of delivery from amazon would’ve been great. 

[RAMROD 117,361]

Online grocery is such a breeze in times  like this, not limited to amazon, tho I did use their services  

[Whispering 18,865]

They are hiring another 100,000 workers in the US. That’s good, since so many have lost their jobs due to the lockdowns.