An Amazon FBA shipment change, TikTok shop not allowing drop shipping anymore, and Walmart launching an in-home testing program, this and more on this week's episode of the weekly buzz.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast by Helium 10.

I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that is our Helium 10 weekly buzz,

where you give you a rundown of all the new stories that are going on in the Amazon, Walmart,

and e-commerce world. We highlight the latest new feature alerts from Helium 10,

and we review a training tip of the week that will give you serious strategies for

serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world.

Today, our host is going to be Shavali Patel, and so Shavali, take it away and let us know

what's buzzing.

First up, for my Amazon sellers, we have an important update coming your way directly

from Amazon.

Effective February 20th, 2025, Amazon is making some significant

changes to its FBA inbound placement service. And this can impact the way that you send your

inventory to fulfillment centers. If you've been using the partial shipment splits option up until now,

where you could send inventory to two to three locations for a reduced fee that's now going away.

You should have received this email and moving forward you will only have two options.

The first is Amazon optimized shipment splits, which means that there will be no

inbound placement fees, but you'll need to send your inventory to multiple fulfillment

centers, at least five shipments or more.

Or you can offer from minimal shipment splits, which lets you send inventory to just one location,

but this comes with a fee.

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