{"id":21882,"date":"2017-04-20T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T04:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=21882"},"modified":"2017-04-20T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:56:52","slug":"amazon-is-shutting-down-diapers-com-soap-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=21882","title":{"rendered":"Amazon has Shut Down Soap.com &#038; Diapers.Com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"group\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?attachment_id=13693\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13693 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/amazon-box-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2owlZyF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">E-commerce giant Amazon<\/span><\/a> is shutting down its Quidsi unit, the parent company of sites like Diapers.com and Soap.com, after it failed to reach profitability, the company said Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Amazon bought Quidsi in 2010 for around $500 million in cash, according to a press release. The packaged deal came with other sites such as Wag.com (pets), BeautyBar.com (luxury beauty), Yoyo.com (toys) and Casa.com (home goods). News of Amazon&#8217;s decision to close this unit was first reported by Bloomberg on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The shutdown will result in layoffs of more than 260 people, according to a New Jersey state filing. But Bloomberg reported that some of these employees will be able to apply for new positions at Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"inline_movable_ad\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0&#8220;We have worked extremely hard for the past seven years to get Quidsi to be profitable, and unfortunately we have not been able to do so,&#8221; an Amazon spokeswoman told CNBC in a statement. &#8220;Quidsi has great brand expertise and they will continue to offer selection on Amazon.com; the software development team will focus on building technology for AmazonFresh.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Amazon hasn&#8217;t confirmed when its Quidsi-affiliated sites will go offline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/03\/29\/amazon-shuts-down-quidsi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">CNBC<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>E-commerce giant Amazon is shutting down its Quidsi unit, the parent company of sites like Diapers.com and Soap.com, after it <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=21882\" title=\"Amazon has Shut Down Soap.com &#038; Diapers.Com\">&#8230;.. Get This Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tjb-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21890,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882\/revisions\/21890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}