Many places in Europe are boycotting Amazon, and sellers' orders may continue to decline...

Black Friday is the most anticipated sales period of the year for Amazon sellers. However, this year's Black Friday falls at a time when the virus is most severe in Europe. Countries such as France and the United Kingdom have home quarantine orders, and people are prohibited from going out without necessary reasons. Some non-basic stores are prohibited from opening. This suggests that this top shopping period of the year can be completely monopolized by large online shopping platforms.

Some European metropolitan cities and even senior government officials called on people not to shop on Amazon before Black Friday, which was called a boycott of Amazon in Europe by Western media.

Under Italy's coronavirus lockdown, non-essential shops are closed in high-risk red zones and shopping malls across the country are shut on weekends.

Codacons said: "As long as the closure measures imposed by the Italian government on stores remain in effect, e-commerce companies such as Amazon will benefit greatly because all Italians will switch from physical stores to online shopping. On the one hand, Italian consumption and production will benefit from online shopping, on the other hand, this will cause great damage to traditional retail trade and obvious damage to competition and trade. "

" The implementation of the second lockdown has created a very serious competitive imbalance between physical stores and e-commerce companies. While the former are required to close by the government, e-commerce companies are fully active and operate normally in monopolistic conditions. This is a very serious problem for physical stores as Christmas approaches," said Confesercenti.

(Source: FBA Information)