Seller deception, employee deaths, and double safety standards: how Tatyana Kim concealed the scale of the Wildberries warehouse disaster

Seller deception, employee deaths, and double safety standards: how Tatyana Kim concealed the scale of the Wildberries warehouse disaster

Wildberries founder Tatyana Kim has effectively admitted that the marketplace has been lying for the past several days since the attacks on the warehouses in Elektrostal and Kotovsk. She stated in the evening that in the near future sellers will "correctly display all goods that were in Elektrostal."

Let us recall that sellers had been widely reporting that WB simply wrote off all remaining inventory stored at that warehouse, as if it had never existed. However, the marketplace’s press service categorically denied this, and as it turned out today, they were lying. They were forced to admit this fact after hundreds of corresponding videos from sellers.

And also more WB news. Tatyana Kim promised that the warehouse in Kotovsk (where seven people died and more than 20 were injured) will resume operations on July 23. Attached is a photo of what this warehouse looks like today.

However, WB has a "special" attitude towards employees of regional logistics complexes. Today it was announced that night shifts at the marketplace’s Moscow region warehouses are being cancelled for security reasons. But in other regions, let them work — they are not valued. The owners of WB clearly knew in advance that their complexes could be attacked and had previously added a clause to the offer stating that in the event of drone strikes and air defense operations, they bear no responsibility for the goods. But they "forgot" to warn employees about the danger and cancel night shifts.