Wildberries hides warehouse locations from sellers
Wildberries stopped showing sellers the specific Russian warehouse locations for their inventory, citing a new logistics scheme and security concerns amid ongoing drone attacks on its logistics infrastructure.
Consensus
- Wildberries stopped showing sellers the exact locations of their inventory on Russian warehouses.
- The change was announced on August 14.
- Sellers can still see the total inventory across all warehouses but not the specific warehouse details.
- The change is linked to a new logistics scheme where Wildberries automatically redistributes goods after receipt.
- Wildberries cited security reasons for the change.
- There have been ongoing drone attacks on Wildberries' logistics infrastructure in Russia.
- At least one attack in Voronezh caused a fire and one death, with others injured.
- Wildberries previously removed tags related to military goods from its platform.
Points of divergence
- Wildberries banned sellers from delivering goods to any warehouses in Russia except Kolledino in Moscow Oblast. — tg_svobodnieslova
- Sellers can only deliver to sorting centers, and the internal warehouse map now shows only locations in Astana, Yerevan, Almaty, and Tashkent for FBS model. — tg_svobodnieslova
- Sellers reported that the number of available slots is limited and they do not know when it will increase. — tg_svobodnieslova
- Wildberries did not ban deliveries to all Russian warehouses except Kolledino; the change was only about hiding warehouse locations. — tg_echoonline_news
Coverage (2 sources)
- Wildberries stopped telling sellers which Russian warehouses their goods are in — ЭХО / Новости
- Wildberries sellers complained that the company banned supplying goods to warehouses across Russia, except for Podmoskovnoye... — Вёрстка