Amazon Stops Accepting Non-Essential Items at Its Warehouses

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is suspending all shipments of non-essential items to its warehouses in an effort to free up space for common household products. Sellers on the company's digital sales platform received a message on Tuesday informing them that Amazon is seeing a surge of online shopping as the result of the outbreak of illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus and is being forced to make changes to existing practices. 

Because of the unprecedented demand, Amazon is running out of products consumers need on a daily basis, such as household staples and medical supplies, and the company has been warning customers that delivery times will be longer than usual. The move is designed to free up space in the warehouses for these high-demand products.

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