Amazon launches program to donate unsold products, after reports that millions were being destroyed
Amazon is launching a new donations program, called FBA Donations, for third-party sellers that store their inventory in Amazon’s warehouses in the U.S. and U.K., CNBC has learned.
The launch follows recent reports of Amazon routinely destroying unsold and unwanted inventory, with one French TV documentary estimating Amazon to have destroyed over 3 million products in France last year.wants its third-party sellers to make better use of their unsold or unwanted products that often get dumped — by giving them away to charity.
The donations will be distributed to a network of U.S. nonprofits through a group called Good360 and UK charities such as Newlife and Barnardo's. "This program will reduce the number of products sent to landfills and instead help those in need," Amazon wrote in the email to sellers announcing the launch.
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