They are prioritizing the hand sanitizer that is always out of stock? How about Clorox wipes? Fine, how about making your own...oh...isopropyl is sold out too.
What exactly is being shipping now?
> it said it would only accept new stock in its warehouses through early April if it was in one of six essential products categories, such as health and household goods or medical supplies
> The company said most of the products it was still accepting from third-party sellers and wholesale vendors fall into one of six categories: baby products, health and household, beauty and personal care, grocery, industrial and scientific, and pet supplies
Amazon doesn't have an infinitely large fulfillment network. Instead of being snarky, maybe we can acknowledge that Amazon is facing unprecedented disruptions in their normal demand patterns and supply chains, and they are making very reasonable efforts to handle them in the best way possible. Just like every other business that has been impacted by this pandemic.
Of course the essentials people want are the ones that wipe bacteria or protect you from it, as well as the FOMO items like toilet paper, but hardly their fault since they don’t control the production of those things. The best they can do is prioritize their supply chain to get those goods into warehouses.
I’ve made it twice since the CA quarantine began and have been keeping dough in the fridge so my family can have fresh bread every day.
You can even start with the dutch oven cold, which makes it much easier! https://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2017/07/05/baking-in-a-...
IMO, Amazon shouldn't have sold it to her.
Should Amazon have an intern filtering through every listing to decide what makes it essential or not, then block non-essential?
A comment above made it clear, they went by category, which is a very reasonable approach. It treats pet supplies as important (which makes sense, my dog's food comes from Amazon for example).
It’s not unreasonable that people also show some discretion when Amazon has made it very public that they’re dealing with an unprecedented situation.
I needed a new phone case and a few random odds and ends recently but hit save for later because I’m not going to die if I wait a few weeks to order these things.
That they’re offering $3 for “no rush” now and just pushing sone items out to a promise date 30 days away tells me they want the order if you want to give it to them.
> That they’re offering $3 for “no rush”
So you mean they put it in the checkout flow?
The original comment was someone saying they don’t get why a cat toy gets 2 day shipping.
The point is Amazon is making it abundantly clear they’re struggling with demand and at some point you should also take a second and ask if you need that cat toy by Tuesday.
They did the reasonable thing and prioritized internally AND they’re literally paying you to wait longer for things, what more are they supposed to do?
Honestly this kind of logic is what the hoarders have been using...
“There was no sign that said don’t buy the 10 cases of toilet paper and the register asked me for payment after I scanned it all, so they wanted to me to order it!”
... well now there’s a sign. It won’t be surprising if eventually Amazon has to do the same, they’ve already stopped accepting new Pantry orders