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The Next website, stop taking orders after it re-opened on a limited scale, after a three week break.

The dealer said the demand exceeded the capacity by about 08:30 BST and the page will be closed until Wednesday.

The Fashion retailer had stopped, jobs on 26. March and the High Street shops castle on 23 March, A Day before the United Kingdom went into lockdown.

But it re-opened said online on the Tuesday after The Next , it have reinforced social distancing measures in your warehouse.

Initially, the Website only needs like children's clothing and selected small home items to sell, although that could be extended.

"The idea is to start selling in small quantities, so that we help only a small number of colleagues in each of the bearings at the same time, to ensure that strict social distance is maintained," the company said in a statement.

"these limited quantities, just so the customer, The Number of elements, which believes that it can be picked up safely on any day. "

to close All "non-essential" shops, it was said,

At this point, he said it would stop taking orders and to convert the website "browse only" until The Next morning, what happens on Tuesday.

the Explain Tuesday, surge, a spokesman said the company had asked the people to come the desire to return to work.

About 3,000 people have volunteered, but they All have to go through a Safety Training course is, the most will not be back at work for several weeks.

next, in the rule of 7,000 employees in its eight logistics centers, the a site in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire .

"How these figures, the volume increase, then the stock can be ready, to rise and thus The Site is open longer, every day," the spokesman told The Bbc .

Threat on sale

Next, which makes up More Than half of its sales online, he has warned of a "very significant decline in sales" as a result of the effect of the Corona-Virus outbreak.

Like other fashion retailers, it had. prior to declining demand of the consumer prior to The Crisis , but because All "non-essential" High Street stores were forced to close, these problems are reinforced

According to research from Retail Economics and Alvarez & Marsal, the sales on the British Fashion Retail thoughts, plunged by 70% since the lockdown, forcing retailers, including Primark and Next to pause, or cancel orders.

Most of the delivery of your latest spring and summer had just-collections, and are now facing a £15bn Mountain of stock that cannot be sold, the research said.

Separately, online retail giant Amazon has said it will now allow further sales of non-essential items from third-party providers in the United States, which Make Up the bulk of sales on the own Website.

for almost a month, it has prioritised deliveries of household items and medical supplies at its U.S. fulfillment centers. The curbs remain in Europe, although the company is very interested in this undoing, Soon .

A courier, the wearing of a respiratory mask, which handles a Amazon package

move to the US, the company said: "the products are limited to allow through the crowd to us, and continue to be a prioritization of the products and the protection of our employees, but also ensures that the majority of the distribution partners, you can ship the goods in our facilities. "

Amazon has given the protests of the current warehouse employees in the U.S. and Europe over the question of whether there is adequate protection of coronavirus infections on your stock.

But, on Monday, the jobs lost and asked US employees to apply for since the coronavirus slowdown, as many as 75,000 new positions that it provides.

Last month, Amazon has to fill 100,000 extra US personnel to priority online orders for food and medical equipment for existing customers.

But it still has a Waiting List for new customers.

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Source of news: bbc.com