{"id":8901,"date":"2022-09-20T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https://cross-border-magazine.com/es/?p=8901"},"modified":"2022-09-20T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:52:20","slug":"amazon-spain-expasion-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://cross-border-magazine.com/es/amazon-spain-expasion-on-hold/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon puts on hold its expansion plans in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8902\" srcset=\"https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain-780x439.jpg 780w, https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain-1190x669.jpg 1190w, https://cross-border-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amazonspain.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /></a></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon has decided to delay its planned new logistics warehouse in Spain until, at least, 2024.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The e-commerce titan was planning to build a new logistic warehouse with a blueprint size of 150,000 square meters. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">🔥Do you want to know more about international commerce and e-commerce, and also get all the tips and news that might give your company an edge?<strong> Subscribe to </strong><a href=\"https://cross-border-magazine.com/es/order-your-free-copy-magazine/\"><strong>Cross-Border Magazine and get your digital copy now for free</strong></a><strong>!</strong>🔥</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Amazon itself, the decision was taken based on two factors: a considerable decrease in consumer demand and the rising inflation in Spain. But the company is also canceling other expansion plans in different European nations like Germany, Poland, and Austria, where multiple logistic centers and new warehouses were put on hold.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon Post-Covid Growth Effect&nbsp;</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon seems to be suffering from another acute case of the Post-Covid Growth Effect, having expanded significantly during the Covid crisis to cope with the rising online demand, but facing now the high operational costs derived from an expansion without the same sales volume.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This situation previously hit other online companies from the e-commerce industry like Shopify, which had to layoff 10% of its staff, also due to a massive overgrown during the Covid Crisis, and then the later natural reduction of income due to the rekindling of physical stores activities.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Amazon's case, the company had to increase its warehouse network in the last couple of years to deal with the increase in demand during the Covid Crisis, but now this is costing Amazon close to 5.6 billion euros in Q2 this year, of wasted money due to excess capacity, lost productivity and inflation.&nbsp;<br>For the time being, Amazon has halted all possible new logistic and warehouse facilities programmed in the cities of Murcia, Zaragoza, Vitoria, San Sebastián, Asturias, Vigo, Seville, Girona, and Reus (Tarragona).</p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has decided to delay its planned new logistics warehouse in Spain until, at least, 2024.&nbsp; The e-commerce titan was planning to build a new logistic warehouse with a blueprint...</p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,98,202,83,128,321,230],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-cross-border","tag-e-commerce","tag-europe","tag-logistics","tag-online-shopping","tag-spain"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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