[rablo]

That’s your opinion. I disagree. With the glasses they probably needed lots of filtering by hand. Costed them a lot of money. They were afraid of costly lawsuits. But they don’t have the capacity to do that with every product they sell.

[godzillabrennus]

If fake goggles had liability problems wait till they sell a fake medication.

They’ll invest the resources to ensure that doesn’t happen.

Amazon didn’t get big by being stupid.

[tomrod]

Invest, or lobby for law changes to protect themselves.

Your point stands.

[joezydeco]

No, Amazon totally had the ability to separate glasses from different suppliers and keep them apart in the warehouse.

The bogus ones could then have been isolated and recalled, but this is not what happened.

[ethbro]

I'd say there are two differences between goggles and medication.

1) Goggles used the existing supply chain. Which, as noted, was designed around the idea that customers would rather have cheaper things from any vendor that things from a specific vendor. Presumably the greenfield / acquired med supply chain is engineered around different desires and regulations.

2) By the time the goggle issue came up, inventory was already in the system. With some presumably co-mingled. I'm just saying I wouldn't want to be the DB analyst who got tasked with untangling that.

[Retric]

It's 'easy' to track eack item by type and source. They chose not to.