Amazon sends accidental gift email to shoppers due to glitch


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017

An employee exits the warehouse floor of the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Hyderabad, India on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Amazon opened its largest Indian fulfillment center in Hyderabad. The center spans 400,000 square feet with 2.1m cubic feet of storage capacity the company said in a statement. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

A technical glitch caused Amazon.com Inc to email some of its customers erroneously that they had received a gift, the company said. 

The email displayed an image of a crawling infant and told shoppers they had received a present from their baby registry. A number of recipients, however, reported on social media that they were not expecting a child. 

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