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Amazon cut inventory sending limits for merchants which means many skus are out of stock. Why did they do this? A combination of fewer employees, fewer warehouses and less space, etc.

Overall trend is going in the wrong direction. They should be helping merchants and providing more space and opening more warehouses.

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"They should be ... opening more warehouses."

Opening more warehouses would require hiring more people. I remember reading that turnover among Amazon warehouse workers is exceptionally high. Sooner or later Amazon will have to raise what they pay these workers, which will drive prices for products sold on Amazon to increase.

I think it’s more like they need to make the warehouse jobs easier. Trying to get peak productivity out of people burns them out quickly and they go through so many people they actually burn through the entire job applicant pool.

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