{"id":19215,"date":"2025-06-20T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/amazon-under-uk-investigation-over-alleged-failure-to-pay-suppliers-on-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:38:15","slug":"amazon-under-uk-investigation-over-alleged-failure-to-pay-suppliers-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/amazon-under-uk-investigation-over-alleged-failure-to-pay-suppliers-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon under UK investigation over alleged failure to pay suppliers on time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulator says it has \u2018reasonable grounds\u2019 to suspect company breached groceries supply code of practice<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jun\/20\/uk-government-borrowing-retail-sales-slide-may-stock-markets-oil-business-live-news-updates\"><strong>Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK\u2019s grocery industry watchdog has launched an investigation into Amazon over allegations that the retail and technology company is failing to pay its suppliers on time.<\/p>\n<p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) said it had \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to suspect that Amazon had breached a part of the groceries supply code of practice, which mandates that there should not be delays in payments made to suppliers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/20\/amazon-uk-investigation-alleged-failure-to-pay-groceries-suppliers-on-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/efa2db9620f1d198a5dfc2cab421c77fed4eb993\/314_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=050430018a62cee8fc78d7579b067a69\" title=\"Amazon under UK investigation over alleged failure to pay suppliers on time\" \/>Regulator says it has \u2018reasonable grounds\u2019 to suspect company breached groceries supply code of practice<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe UK\u2019s grocery industry watchdog has launched an investigation into Amazon over allegations that the retail and technology company is failing to pay its suppliers on time.<br \/>\nThe Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) said it had \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to suspect that Amazon had breached a part of the groceries supply code of practice, which mandates that there should not be delays in payments made to suppliers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulator says it has \u2018reasonable grounds\u2019 to suspect company breached groceries supply code of practice Business live \u2013 latest updates The UK\u2019s grocery industry watchdog has launched an investigation into Amazon over allegations that the retail and technology company is failing to pay its suppliers on time. The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) said it had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/amazon-under-uk-investigation-over-alleged-failure-to-pay-suppliers-on-time\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon under UK investigation over alleged failure to pay suppliers on time<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}