What merchants are seeing
Since roughly 27 July, products added to Google Business Profile have been sitting in "Pending" status without going live. The reports are not limited to new submissions: multiple merchants describe products that had already been approved and published dropping back into Pending on their own.
The pattern comes from independent merchants across different accounts rather than one vertical or one region, which is the signal that separates a platform bug from a listing-level rejection. Google has not acknowledged the issue publicly and has not published a fix or an estimated resolution.
What to do about it
Resist the urge to delete and resubmit
Deleting a Pending product and adding it again puts a fresh item at the back of the same stalled queue and loses whatever approval history the original had. If a product you rely on has reverted, record when you noticed and leave the entry alone.