Amazon Will Start Letting Nonessentials Back Into Their Warehouses Later This Week

Partly shedding the narrow focus on essential items it adopted in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) intends to start allowing deliveries of non-essential goods to its warehouses sometime later this week. To ensure essential products remain prioritized, and to help with worker safety measures, only limited quantities of nonessentials will be let back in initially.

Food and pantry items, pet food, products related to medical needs, and paper goods -- such as toilet paper and cleansing wipes -- were among the essentials Amazon allowed third-party sellers to sell for Amazon fulfillment during the past few weeks. Most warehouse space will continue to be allocated to these categories, but electronics, books, DVDs and CDs, sports equipment, and other products will start edging back in shortly.

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