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Title: Amazon Purges Billions of Product Listings in Cost-Cutting Drive

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1954240/a...

Amazon has quietly removed billions of product listings through a
confidential initiative called "Bend the Curve," according to Business
Insider. The project planned to eliminate at least 24 billion ASINs -- unique
product identifiers -- from Amazon's marketplace, reducing the total from a
projected 74 billion to under 50 billion by December 2024. The purge targets
"unproductive selection" including poor-selling items, listings without
actual inventory, and product pages inactive for over two years. The
initiative represents a shift for the company that built its reputation as
"The Everything Store" through three decades of relentless catalog expansion.
Bend the Curve forms part of CEO Andy Jassy's broader cost-cutting strategy,
saving Amazon's retail division over $22 million in AWS server costs during
2024 by reducing the number of hosted product pages.

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