Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say
<i>A data analytics firm that specializes in the Amazon Marketplace recently analyzed the site’s 100 best-selling food products for CNBC and found that at least 40% of sellers had more than five customer complaints about expired goods.</i><p>In other words, Amazon knows about the sellers who ship expired goods yet lets them continue to operate. It has the data and it <i>still</i> fails to take one of the easiest steps to address the problem, removing bad actors from the marketplace (which would also make many other sellers clean up their acts).<p>I&#x27;ve had a similar issue with buying books advertised as &quot;new&quot; and they are clearly used ... including one book that had a &quot;USED&quot; sticker on it. I complained about the seller, and nothing happened. As of the last time I checked this seller was still in business on Amazon, with 22% negative ratings in the last 30 days.<p>The message to third-party sellers is clear:<p>Win the buy box however you can. We won’t police your listings. We won’t punish you if you lie about the condition of the goods. Even if many of Amazon’s customers are complaining about you, you can still stay in business on Amazon.