{"id":60741,"date":"2020-03-19T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=60741"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:58:10","slug":"amazon-refuses-to-stock-certain-items-in-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/amazon-refuses-to-stock-certain-items-in-warehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Refuses To Stock Certain Items In Warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To cope with an overwhelming demand for household essentials, Amazon is banning certain items from being stocked in their warehouses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essentially, it means sellers that list non-essential items on the site could find it difficult to ship orders to their customers.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has obviously been met with mixed reviews, with one seller saying: &#8220;my sales just doubled and Amazon halted all my shipments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Third party sellers have been notified that they will have to fulfil orders themselves, but they can still list on the website.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said in a statement: &#8220;We are temporarily prioritising household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into our fulfilment centres so we can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers. We understand this is a change for our selling partners and appreciate their understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other sellers have backed the decision, and sympathised with Amazon, with one seller saying that Amazon was doing the &#8220;right thing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The restriction is meant to stay in place until April 5th, and is in place for UK and EU warehouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cope with an overwhelming demand for household essentials, Amazon is banning certain items from being stocked in their warehouses. Essentially, it means sellers that list non-essential items on the site could find it difficult to ship orders to their customers. The decision has obviously been met with mixed reviews, with one seller saying: &#8220;my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,5],"tags":[236,47,746,943,1700,1721,71,43],"class_list":["post-60741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-european-news","category-uk-news","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-europe","tag-europe-news","tag-european-news","tag-news","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60767,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741\/revisions\/60767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}