{"id":1438755,"date":"2022-04-14T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438755"},"modified":"2022-04-14T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:29:59","slug":"amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Adds 5% \u2018Fuel And Inflation Surcharge\u2019 To Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-sellers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/2781C933-566C-44AF-B650-3281BC265CD8-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Amazon is placing a 5% \u201cfuel and inflation surcharge\u201d on products sold through the platform, as inflation continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>The online shopping giant announced that it was adding the surcharge Wednesday. It also posted a message on its <a href=\"https:\/\/sellercentral.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/external\/GABBX6GZPA8MSZGW?language=en_US\">Seller Central<\/a> website detailing a sample fee schedule. The surcharge will be implemented on April 28, and will affect all products from sellers whose inventory Amazon warehouses, packs, and delivers through its fulfillment service. The fee is also subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2022, we expected a return to normalcy as Covid-19 restrictions around the world eased, but fuel and inflation have presented further challenges,\u201d Amazon said in an email to sellers, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/13\/energy\/amazon-fuel-surcharge\/index.html\">CNN Business<\/a>. \u201cIt is unclear if these inflationary costs will go up or down, or for how long they will persist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike many, we have experienced significant cost increases and absorbed them, wherever possible, to reduce the impact on our selling partners,\u201d Amazon added. \u201cWhen we did increase fees, we were focused on addressing permanent costs and ensuring our fees were competitive with those charged by other service providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/13\/technology\/amazon-fuel-surcharge.html\">New York Times<\/a> reported that Amazon had previously announced fee increases in November that were scheduled to take effect in January, but the company said in its email that those fees were not enough. Amazon said further that fuel surcharges are a \u201cmechanism broadly used across supply chain providers.\u201d Other shipping companies like FedEx and UPS have fuel surcharges that are tied to fuel price indexes.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defended the decision in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=roKzFMaqk5s\">CNBC interview<\/a>, saying that supply chain challenges and inflationary pressures, which he blamed on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, were the key factors that influenced the decision. \u201cThe last thing we ever want to do is have to raise costs for our sellers,\u201d Jassy told CNBC. \u201cSellers for us are so important and so critical to the business, and in the early part of the pandemic \u2026 right or wrong we just absorbed all those costs for sellers, in part because we thought some of those would attenuate as we got to the beginning of this year and some of the impacts of COVID changed. But with the war in Ukraine and all the inflationary pieces that happened thereafter, at a certain point, you can\u2019t keep absorbing all those costs and run a business that\u2019s economic. And so, I think that we\u2019re very aware that sellers have costs as well. They\u2019re very important customers for us, and partners, and we\u2019ll keep looking at how costs evolve and revisit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wholesale-inflation-surges-11-2-breaking-another-record\">Wholesale inflation<\/a> surged to a new record high Wednesday, as The Daily Wire reported. The Producer Price Index rose 11.2% annually between March 2021 and March 2022. That number was the highest annual rate on record, according to Bureau Of Labor Statistics data dating back to 2010. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/consumer-prices-soar-8-5-in-march-highest-hike-since-1981\">Consumer Price Index<\/a> also rose to a record rate, climbing 8.5% annually in March.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is the latest company to impose new costs on customers amid the inflation crisis. Grocery delivery service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-we-go-instacart-institutes-gas-surcharge-other-companies-do-the-same\">Instacart<\/a> announced it was implementing a gas surcharge in March, and rideshare services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/uber-lyft-and-taxis-add-fuel-fees-to-offset-high-gas-prices\">Uber and Lyft<\/a> both announced they would be putting up a similar surcharge to cope with high gas prices around the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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