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Are Amazon comingling foods? Wouldn't that make them responsible for the expiry dates? And a whole lot of other things to boot?
by bencollier49 7y ago
Are Amazon comingling foods?
Wouldn't that make them responsible for the expiry dates? And a whole lot of other things to boot?
- ilamont 7y agoExactly. Further, if I were an FBA seller, I would probably avoid shipping in expired goods in case they are checked. There's also the issue of goods passing expiry if they are warehoused too long. I suspect many of the expired food sellers are actually FBM, just like the used book sellers. Avoids a lot of potential headaches associated with FBA.
- ReconBob 7y agoI work for an e-commerce data analytics. I don't have the exact numbers, but I recall many of the Grocery sellers are using FBA. Why do you think the booksellers don't use FBA? We see plenty of FBA sellers listing used books as new.
- hinkley 7y agoIs it possible that this is just a stupid, simple sorting bug in the warehouse software? As a battle scarred developer, I'm primed to think about issues like some algorithm decided LIFA was faster than FIFO, and it's worth my time to investigate whether my coworker didn't differentiate between perishable and non-perishable because they were so pleased with their shortest route algorithm that they couldn't be bothered by trivialities like reality and biology. They'll probably even blame it on their boss instead of on avoiding confrontation.
- delecti 7y agoIt's more likely that they have bins of stuff, and the pickers just grab whatever they grab without regard for first/last in/out.
- ikeboy 7y agoNo, anything with an expiration date is ineligible for commingling.