yeah, this has been obviously a bad thing for so long, and they've been so stubborn, it's hard to believe anything has actually changed in the "economics" of it.

it smells like the sort of policy change that happens when an exec gets personally impacted by it.

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mbreese 15 hours ago | parent [-]

It smells to me like the sort of policy change that happens when Amazon starts to worry about it affecting their bottom line and relationships with suppliers. It used to be enough to solve the problem with support/email. I do wonder what changed…

	▲	thepryz 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This. Amazon made a number of changes to the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program related to lost and damaged inventory among other things. The changes risked increasing the costs and also required Amazon to be provided information that they really shouldn’t need, such as as the cost to source that inventory. My assumption is that the decision to stop commingling is more to support these changes to the FBA program and allow them to extract more money via fees. https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/12/22/amazon-drops-bombs...