Shooting occurred in FBA warehouse! Amazon urgently closed

At this critical moment, a new critical situation occurred in the Amazon warehouse. A shooting occurred at an FBA operation center in Florida, resulting in 1 death and 2 injuries!

Amazon verified that the deceased was a job seeker waiting in line for an interview outside the FBA center, and that one of the injured was an Amazon employee who was participating in a new employee event at the warehouse. Amazon immediately locked down the warehouse building after the incident to ensure the safety of the employees on site and to protect evidence.

Several foreign media outlets did not reveal which Amazon warehouse it was or the specific address of the warehouse. I checked the city of Jacksonville where the incident occurred, and based on other information in the news, I speculated that it was probably JAX3. Sellers who have goods in this warehouse need to pay special attention to the delivery situation of the warehouse and respond to possible delays in a timely manner.

What hatred or grudge made the murderer shoot and kill a civilian who was seeking a job? The murderer is still on the run, so the motive for the murder is still unknown, but the police initially inferred that it should not be a simple workplace violence incident. At present, the local police have launched a wanted notice and displayed the silver car that the suspect took when he escaped.

An Amazon spokesperson called it a tragedy. At least ten Amazon employees witnessed the shooting at the scene. Current clues do not indicate that the shooting was related to any Amazon employee. The company will actively cooperate with local police in the investigation.

Although Amazon has not said whether the affected warehouse will continue to be locked, the employees of the warehouse were urgently evacuated and settled on the day of the incident. Now that the criminal is still at large and the motive for the shooting is unclear, it is very dangerous for workers to rashly return to the warehouse, so I predict that the warehouse will be suspended for at least 1-2 days.

However, the shooting was most likely a personal grudge against the job seeker, and other warehouses should not be affected by this incident. Now sellers are worried about the timeliness of replenishing stocks.

There are even rumors that FedEx and Amazon have fallen out, with Amazon refusing to pick up replenishment shipments from FedEx on the grounds that its warehouses are full, causing a backlog of goods at FedEx warehouses. FedEx also refused to pick up Amazon's FBA delivery shipments on the grounds that its warehouses are full.

In response to the serious shortage of warehouse capacity, Amazon is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of cash to incentivize warehouse workers!

Amazon announced on Monday that it will give each front-line employee a cash subsidy of $500 . Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and offline store and supermarket employees (Whole Foods) who worked in June will receive it. Part-time employees will receive $250. The estimated amount of the subsidy may be as high as about $500 million.

Why did the stingy brother-in-law become so generous this time? In fact, the issue behind this is related to the enthusiasm of the warehouse employees.

Amazon started to set up a temporary salary increase policy in March to motivate warehouse employees and attract people to work in warehouses during the epidemic, which greatly increased hourly wages and overtime pay. However, this salary increase policy ended at the end of May, and starting in June, Amazon warehouse wages returned to the original level.

However, the epidemic in the United States did not see a turning point in decline. After mid-June, it turned to rise. Frontline workers need to continue working under the same threat to their safety and health. Therefore, the cancellation of the temporary salary increase caused dissatisfaction among many frontline warehouse employees. Some workers even spontaneously organized a signature petition to ask Amazon to restore the previous salary increase policy.

The cancellation of the temporary salary increase also caused warehouse workers to start to slow down, which seriously affected the timeliness of warehouses in various places. So Amazon's $500 is also temporarily used to appease warehouse employees. I believe that after this money arrives, our goods can be put on the shelves and picked up a little faster.

However, the one-time subsidy is a temporary policy after all. Amazon may make further incentives depending on the situation, such as resuming salary increases or providing other rewards. In short, the problem of FBA warehouse warehousing and shelving should be effectively alleviated in the next two days . How the situation will develop in the future depends on how my brother-in-law handles it later.