{"id":22775,"date":"2020-03-17T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22775"},"modified":"2020-03-17T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:52:34","slug":"amazon-supply-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22775","title":{"rendered":"AMAZON SUPPLY SHORTAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is suspending shipments of nonessential items to its warehouses in the United States and United Kingdom following shortages triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing increased online shopping and as a result some products such as household staples and medical supplies are out of stock,&#8221; a spokesperson for the online retail giant said in a statement to The Hill Tuesday. &#8220;With this in mind, we are temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies and other high-demand products coming into our fulfillment centers so we can more quickly receive, restock and ship these products to customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The freeze will be effective from Tuesday through April 5, according to Amazon, although an extension has not been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Products already en route to facilities will still be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Limiting nonessential items is just one step Amazon has taken in response to increased demand for products to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Amazon announced it is planning to hire about 100,000 new employees.<\/p>\n<p>The company also plans to raise wages from $15 to $17 per hour for workers at American locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is suspending shipments of nonessential&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22776,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775\/revisions\/22776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}