Amazon warehouse crisis! Is delivery resumption slow again?

Last weekend, Amazon fulfilled its promise to "open up restocking permissions for more products," allowing many sellers to quickly replenish their depleted inventory.

However, when many sellers quickly created shipping plans, they were dumbfounded. Amazon said it would resume replenishment, but in fact it changed the way it restricted sellers' replenishment plans.

Although everyone can now create a shipping plan, the shipping quantity is strictly limited. If it exceeds the specified number, an error will be reported. Sellers who created a shipping plan this weekend have basically seen the following reminder.

Many sellers in our group have reported that even if they can ship, Amazon has limited the replenishment quantity of each SKU to 50. Recently, because the Trump administration has been printing money, our orders have also risen sharply, and replenishing 50 stocks is really a drop in the bucket.

Not only that, we also have sellers reporting that products that were previously available for restocking are now no longer available after the restocking quantity limits were updated on Sunday!

From this we can draw a surprising conclusion, Amazon's replenishable list is not increasing gradually! Instead, it is replenished in batches, which means that the currently replenishable products may become unrestockable!

In this way, sellers must check which products can be replenished every day. If they find that the SKU can be replenished, they must create a delivery plan first, regardless of the inventory! Otherwise, when there is no stock, when they think of replenishing, it is very likely that the replenishment authority will be gone!

Logically speaking, Amazon has hired so many people, and the United States has also begun to gradually resume work (although the turning point of the epidemic has not yet appeared). In theory, Amazon's transportation capacity should be becoming more and more abundant. Why is Amazon now finding ways to restrict our replenishment?

In the past two days, Amazon's warehouse "caught fire".

Ever since the COVID-19 cases started appearing in Amazon warehouses, we have been worried that one day the situation would be so serious that it would affect delivery. My brother-in-law is always concerned about the epidemic prevention measures in the warehouse and even went to the FBA logistics center himself to test the warehouse's epidemic management methods.

However, these efforts obviously did not achieve the desired effect. So far, more than 50 Amazon warehouses across the United States have been reported to have confirmed cases. A considerable number of workers have launched strikes due to concerns about infection, and several officials and unions in New York and Los Angeles have called for the closure of Amazon warehouses.

These problems have seriously affected Amazon's logistics capacity in the near future. Amazon has also introduced more powerful epidemic prevention measures - adding expensive thermal imaging monitoring systems to truly make it impossible for employees with abnormal body temperatures to escape detection.

Amazon's shipping capacity shortage is likely to continue this week, but the US government is now eager to resume production and work, and even some members of the House of Representatives have launched a slogan: "It is better to let more Americans die than to restore the economy. This is the lesser of two evils."

Therefore, I expect that even if the shipping capacity is tight, there will not be a direct ban on shipments in March. It may still take a long period of capacity recovery.

But I still want to remind everyone, even if you can't ship/send less, don't rush to try new methods! Be careful of the black technology of refurbished shipping!