{"id":5371,"date":"2022-04-14T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/amazon-sellers-face-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-offset-rising-costs\/"},"modified":"2022-04-14T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T08:36:27","slug":"amazon-sellers-face-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-offset-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/amazon-sellers-face-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-offset-rising-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sellers face 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to offset rising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce firm blames move on wage increases, hiring of workers and warehouse construction<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs by adding a 5% \u201cfuel and inflation surcharge\u201d to the fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based company said the increase, which will take effect from 28 April, were subject to change and applied to clothing and non-clothing items.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/14\/amazon-sellers-fuel-inflation-surcharge-rising-costs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c9867bcbe9d278608d89580431a4797ba3d3773e\/0_194_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d3e71c5b3b8da3f50b69d4c4efaa9946\" title=\"Amazon sellers face 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to offset rising costs\" \/>E-commerce firm blames move on wage increases, hiring of workers and warehouse construction<br \/>\nAmazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs by adding a 5% \u201cfuel and inflation surcharge\u201d to the fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services.<br \/>\nThe Seattle-based company said the increase, which will take effect from 28 April, were subject to change and applied to clothing and non-clothing items. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce firm blames move on wage increases, hiring of workers and warehouse construction Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs by adding a 5% \u201cfuel and inflation surcharge\u201d to the fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services. The Seattle-based company said the increase, which will take effect from 28 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/amazon-sellers-face-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-offset-rising-costs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon sellers face 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to offset rising costs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5372,"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\/5371"}],"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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}