Amazon Prioritizes Essential Products in India, Temporarily Discontinues 'Lower-Priority' Items (techcrunch.com) 7
Amazon said on Tuesday that it is temporarily discontinuing accepting orders for "lower-priority" products in India and prioritizing servicing urgent items such as household staples, health care, and personal safety products as the e-commerce player -- along with several of its competitors -- grapples with coronavirus outbreak in one of its key overseas markets. From a report: "To serve our customers' most urgent needs while also ensuring safety of our employees, we are temporarily prioritizing our available fulfilment and logistics capacity to serve products that are currently critical for our customers such as household staples, packaged food, health care, hygiene, personal safety and other high priority products," the American e-commerce giant said in a statement. "This also means that we have to temporarily stop taking orders and disable shipments for lower-priority products," it added. Understandably, the company said it did not have a timeline to share for how long this new measure would last. Amazon has taken a similar approach in the U.S. and Italy. The move, which goes into effect today, comes as nearly every Indian state has imposed a lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
New sales tactic. (Score:2)
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"Useless widget, includes free rubber glove!"
In Germany some businesses include a free roll of toilet paper when ordering a meal.
Alternate headline - Amazon obeys law (Score:3)
Exceptions:
e. Delivery of all essential goods including food, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment through E-commerce.
Amazon is just obeying the local law, same as all other delivery companies.
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Amazon is just obeying the local law.
Good grief, they will be paying tax next!
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They avoid tax to whatever extent that law allows them to wherever they operate. And unless this situation results in a change to the tax law they fall under, and with their influence I doubt it will, I expect they will continue to comply with the law.