FBA warehouses urgently evacuated! Amazon is reported to be planning to build an independent website!

Yesterday, foreign media broke the news that a harmful gas leak occurred at an Amazon FBA warehouse in North Carolina!

The warehouse in question has urgently evacuated all staff, and one employee has died at the scene! According to frontline information, the leaked gas was carbon monoxide, and the deceased employee also died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Foreign media did not disclose the internal number of the warehouse. I checked several warehouses in North Carolina and finally determined that the warehouse where the accident occurred should be CLT3 . It is not clear whether it was a product of a third-party seller or an Amazon warehouse facility that leaked. However, the warehouse has been urgently stopped and has not resumed operations yet.

Sellers who have inventory in this warehouse should pay attention to the recent delivery situation. Orders during the suspension period will definitely be delayed. If there are any customer complaints, you can explain this situation to customer service. In addition, CLT3 is currently still being ventilated and checked for leaks, and it is estimated that it may not be opened for a day or two.

In addition to the local transportation situation in the United States that has made my brother-in-law anxious, Musk, who has been in the spotlight recently, also snatched my brother-in-law's seat as the "richest man" today.

Tesla's stock price surged 6% at the opening today, increasing Musk's personal net worth by $10 billion to $191 billion, surpassing his brother-in-law's $187 billion to become the new world's richest man.

Although Amazon's market value is twice that of Tesla, Musk's shareholding ratio is much higher than that of his brother-in-law. In addition, when his brother-in-law divorced at the beginning of last year, he gave a large number of shares to his ex-wife (19.7 million shares, which is worth about 65 billion now). Therefore, this wave of Tesla's rise has brought more increase in Musk's net worth, which allowed Musk to surpass his brother-in-law.

My brother-in-law has also been making various radical attempts for his business recently. According to foreign media reports, Amazon plans to develop cross-border e-commerce independent station business in the near future, and the new team will be led directly by my brother-in-law himself.

According to foreign media reports, Amazon has set up a "secret team" to study Shopify and is preparing to launch a "new online store model" to compete more directly with Shopify. The team has already attracted a large number of Amazon executives to participate, and will be led by my brother-in-law himself . This shows that Amazon attaches great importance to this field.

Although Shopify and Amazon are both companies in the e-commerce field, there is no direct competitive relationship between the two. Shopify does not sell any products, but only uses online services as its main business point, while Amazon has a huge self-operated product line and accounts for a large amount of sales on the platform.

However, there are more and more signs recently that Shopify has increasingly become a threat to Amazon in terms of attracting third-party sellers. Foreign media said that Shopify’s only customers are third-party sellers, and this group is leaving Amazon for Shopify.

Even at the last antitrust hearing, my brother-in-law bluntly stated that Shopify is his direct competitor . This was the first time that Amazon officially confirmed its competition with Shopify.

Foreign media also have high expectations for the development of Shopify. Some media even pointed out that Shopify's sales growth in 2020 surpassed Amazon. Shopify's revenue growth rate in 2020 was close to 100%, much higher than Amazon's 39%.

In response to the aggressive Shopify, Amazon has put its own independent station business on the agenda and has it personally supervised by my brother-in-law. This project is called Project Santos. My brother-in-law may even regard this project as a second venture and prepare to "reshape Amazon" in the next few years.

However, the plan has not disclosed more information at present, and it may take several years before the function is launched. However, interested sellers can prepare in advance. It is always a good idea to have more ways to generate income. Although the gameplay of Amazon and independent sites is very different, there is one method that can be used, that is, off-site social media traffic. Finally, I found a skill package for off-site traffic, which will involve various social media gameplay.