Who Is to Blame for Rising Energy Costs?

By Nomi Prins, editor, Inside Wall Street with Nomi Prins

It doesn’t seem like much, I know.

But it’s the amount Amazon is increasing its fulfillment fee by.

From October 15, 2022 to January 14, 2023, it will cost, on average, 35 cents more to ship each item sold using Amazon’s fulfillment services in the U.S. and Canada.

Again, this might not sound like a lot. But Amazon ships about four billion items to American households each year.

So that could mean a total increase of $1.4 billion that Amazon retailers will have to shoulder in the coming holiday season.

And this isn’t the first price increase Amazon has hit its retailers with this year.

In April, it imposed a 5% “fuel and inflation” surcharge in response to rising gas costs and inflation.

Fuel is a key driver of Amazon’s costs.