National Post (National Edition)
AMAZON DELAYS HIKE IN FEES IT CHARGES MERCHANTS UNTIL JUNE
Amazon.com Inc. says it will delay raising fees it charges independent sellers to store and ship items until June, a gesture to merchants who have sometimes bristled at the rising costs of doing business with the company. In a blog post to sellers, Jeff Wilke, the outgoing chief executive of Amazon’s retail unit, noted that other logistics companies have already announced fee increases. “In a normal year we’d be doing the same,” he wrote. “But this isn’t a normal year and we’ve made the decision to postpone our annual fulfilment fee adjustments and continue to absorb the costs we are incurring on your behalf.”