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Thinking maybe. Execution is hard, the extra truck overhead may make it a non-starter for many

• throwawayboise 5y ago
  Amazon's scale makes some things workable for them that would not work economically at smaller scales.
  • roughly 5y ago
    They do also seem to be willing to or have a culture of taking bets like this that I suspect a lot of the other companies of their size don't - it sounds like they started working on this back in 2015, and I imagine it's been a pretty big investment so far. I'm not an Amazon fan, but not a lot of other companies out there seem to be willing to take bets like that.
  • Closi 5y ago
    Not really, lots of companies are sharing space on charter vessels at the moment, and trunking networks are pretty well developed. Lots of retailers are doing exactly what this article describes, it’s not just Amazon. In fact, I know a company that only ships c5 containers a day that is renting space on a charter vessel, so you don’t need Amazon-scale to do this.