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They are on the way of ending commingling, thankfully.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/after-years-of-backlash-amazon...





this is great news, but:

>To avoid commingling, sellers have long had the option to apply a unique, seller-specific Amazon barcode — known as an FNSKU (Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit) — to every product. This ensures their inventory is tracked and shipped separately.

... is that really all that was necessary all along? I can see that being a problem for, like, 10 cents worth of stuff, but a lot of the commingling complaints have been around expensive items. It's not zero cost of course, but for your average $30+ thing it doesn't seem very difficult to justify.


Requiring seperate Amazon only sku's (especially if they need it to be printed on the product label) is a giant PITA.

Definitely worth doing, but keeping up with all of Amazon's compliance requirements requires a fairly robust logistics system.


Amazon charges you for the “privilege”



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