Amazon has confirmed cuts to its Stores unit affecting office jobs linked to its e-commerce operations, first reported by Business Insider.

Citing a person familiar with the matter, Reuters reported that fewer than 1,000 white-collar workers were affected in the cuts.

Internal Slack conversations seen by the newswire implied that the cuts applied to divisions including selling partner services and customer service across the US, UK and India.

In a statement, a spokesperson told Reuters: “We've ​adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure ​will better enable us to deliver on our priorities.”

In January, Amazon initiated a wave of mass layoffs affecting up to 16,000 of its employees. The move was part of an ongoing workforce reduction starting in late 2025, and brought the total redundancies at the firm to 30,000 over approximately six months.

More focused cuts have continued throughout the year, with the firm having fired workers in its artificial general intelligence division in July.

In recent weeks, Amazon raised the minimum wage for UK operations staff to £31,408 and announced plans to invest an additional $1.9 billion in its Delivery Service Partner programme to embed new AI delivery and safety tools.

It has also unveiled a new suite of multichannel selling tools called Seller Central, allowing registered merchants to oversee sales via Amazon, eBay, Shopify, TikTok Shop and Walmart.

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