Amazon Said to Limit Warehouse Access to New Merchants
- Restricting the service signals concerns about capacity issues
- Storage constraints prompted a building spree this year
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Amazon.com Inc. is restricting merchant access to its warehouses during the busy holiday shopping season, people familiar with the matter said, signaling that the online retailer is worried about capacity issues that have created problems in the past.
The Seattle e-commerce giant is freezing new merchants out of its fast-delivery service Fulfillment By Amazon until Dec. 19, preventing them from sending inventory to its fulfillment centers in advance of the holidays, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak about the issue.