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Posted On: 09/05/2018 7:16:59 PM
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49 companies Amazon could destroy (and 1 it already has)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/49-...p#image=13
Ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft were long thought to be potential victims of Amazon. Whispers that Lyft was aiming at parcel delivery were circulating, and Uber was waist-deep into the package-shipping business. Amazon was using contractors to deliver packages as well, though, and the foray into people transportation would have been an easy one.
Amazon’s focus is elsewhere, however. Rather than expands its network of delivery drivers, earlier this year it doubled down on building its own delivery chain using contractors. Called Amazon Delivery Service Partners, the company is encouraging individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit to build their own business by delivering Amazon-ordered parcels. Such a venture takes aim at the likes of United Parcel Service (UPS) and FedEx (FDX).
The Amazon Delivery Service Partners venture isn’t a direct, immediate threat to the existence of FedEx and UPS. Indeed, some of these deliveries may well be ones that those bigger logistics outfits don’t want to do.
Amazon isn’t a company that thinks small, however. With a fleet of 32 delivery jets in operation and a growing fleet of trucks on the road, the next natural step is bridging the two and completely cutting out middlemen like FedEx and United Parcel Service from many of its delivery chains.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/49-...p#image=13
Ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft were long thought to be potential victims of Amazon. Whispers that Lyft was aiming at parcel delivery were circulating, and Uber was waist-deep into the package-shipping business. Amazon was using contractors to deliver packages as well, though, and the foray into people transportation would have been an easy one.
Amazon’s focus is elsewhere, however. Rather than expands its network of delivery drivers, earlier this year it doubled down on building its own delivery chain using contractors. Called Amazon Delivery Service Partners, the company is encouraging individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit to build their own business by delivering Amazon-ordered parcels. Such a venture takes aim at the likes of United Parcel Service (UPS) and FedEx (FDX).
The Amazon Delivery Service Partners venture isn’t a direct, immediate threat to the existence of FedEx and UPS. Indeed, some of these deliveries may well be ones that those bigger logistics outfits don’t want to do.
Amazon isn’t a company that thinks small, however. With a fleet of 32 delivery jets in operation and a growing fleet of trucks on the road, the next natural step is bridging the two and completely cutting out middlemen like FedEx and United Parcel Service from many of its delivery chains.
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