The company is also introducing waitlists for its Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods home grocery delivery service in an attempt to make the influx of orders more manageable. It temporarily halted Fulfilled by Amazon shipments on nonessential items from third-party sellers, though Amazon reversed the ban this week. In March, its delivery service shifted its priorities to focus on household goods and medical supplies. It is also investing more than $500 million for pay increases to employees, an increase from the $350 million it had originally been planning to spend through the end of April. over the last four weeks and announced on Monday that it’s looking to recruit an additional 75,000. The company hired 100,000 warehouse and delivery employees in the U.S. Amazon has additionally called off Mother’s Day and Father’s Day campaigns aimed at getting people to splurge on their parents and indefinitely postponed Prime Day, the doorbuster blowout it typically holds in July.Īmazon has been sprinting to keep up with the soaring demand for home deliveries as more shops have been ordered closed and people have become increasingly uneasy about going outside. Commission rates are expected to drop more than 50 percent for certain items. That program gives a portion of the revenue from a sale to e-commerce companies and media outlets-including Slate-if a customer landed on the product page through a link they posted. In a bid to lure in fewer customers, the company is cutting back considerably on advertising in Google search results and on commission rates for its affiliate marketing program. The company is also backpedaling on its one-day shipping guarantee for Prime members in Europe, setting the default instead to two days for in-stock orders.Īmazon is taking an axe to many of its promotional initiatives as well. A company premised on people buying stuff online is now trying to get people to buy less stuff online.Īs the Wall Street Journal recently reported, Amazon in March began quietly doing away with the “customers who bought this item also bought” widgets that recommend additional products to users based on what’s in other people’s carts. Overwhelmed with shoppers, trying to prioritize “essential” items like medical supplies and paper goods, and straining to keep its workforce healthy, Amazon has begun to nudge people to order fewer products by tinkering with its interface, cutting down on advertising, and making it ever so slightly less convenient to get certain packages delivered to people’s doors. Since its founding, Amazon executives have espoused a vision of building “ Earth’s most customer-centric company.” Right now, though, they’d prefer those customers to stop hitting the order button quite so much.
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