Paris (AFP)
Amazon will stop taking orders deemed "lower priority" on its French and Italian sites to focus on the products most in demand during this pandemic of new coronavirus, announced the American giant.
"We must focus the available capacity on the highest priority items and, as of today, temporarily stop taking orders for certain lower priority products on Amazon.fr and Amazon.it," the group said in a communicated.
"The employees of our distribution centers will focus on receiving and shipping the products that customers need most today," said the online sales specialist.
It is thus hygiene or basic products for the home which will have priority, as it is already the case in the United States.
This only applies to new orders: those that have already been placed will be honored.
This new policy applies to products ordered directly from Amazon or from third-party sellers who instruct Amazon to store and ship the goods.
Other third-party sellers who do not go through Amazon logistics are not affected.
"Customers can continue to order many of these products from third-party sellers who can ship them directly," said the group.
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