Child Listings Disconnected from Parent on HUNDREDS of ASINs

Hi all,

I sell primarily in footwear, and roughly 20 hours ago (so around 9:30PM Eastern, 3/20) hundreds of my child ASINs became “split” or “disconnected” from their parent listings and are now floating out in cyberspace as single size ASINs.

So, for example:

Footwear Model A, 4 colors, 10 sizes per color. Used to be all one, 40-variation listing. Now seemingly overnight this has become 40 different listings.

Additionally, there are several MASSIVELY bloated listings that have resulted (talking 500 different shoe models/colors and no correlation.)

I am not here to point fingers, rather to bring attention to this issue and ask if any of you all selling in other categories are seeing similar issues. A similar occurrence happened in November 2024 and eventually fixed itself after a week or two, leading me to believe this was all due to Amazon’s AI/bot systems. Nothing was search suppressed, just simply child listings disconnected from parents. I wish there was an easy fix to this, but as always it is difficult to reattach child listings.

I would be happy to provide examples of the problem ASINs to mods if asked privately, but for privacy reasons I would rather not post those here publicly.

Best regards & hope we can find a solution to this,

D