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I'm confused by this. Amazon's not an "e-commerce platform"; it's a store that's half Walmart and half flea-market. Shopify is an "e-commerce platform" to me. W

I'm confused by this. Amazon's not an "e-commerce platform"; it's a store that's half Walmart and half flea-market. Shopify is an "e-commerce platform" to me. Which of these is FedEx intending to be?

CapitalistCartr 3y ago
Fedex execs have no idea, and it shows.
- Axsuul 3y ago
  They also have data that we have no idea about, and it shows.
  - selimthegrim 3y ago
    FedEx Dataworks has been hiring quite a bit
colechristensen 3y ago
Amazon is a mediocre storefront on top of a high performance logistics company. FedEx already has much of the logistics and it wouldn’t take much to compete with Amazon on the storefront side because the experience is so bad.
- rezonant 3y ago
  Yeah honestly this could work out for them-- but the name makes me think of FTX...
- pstuart 3y ago
  Harvesting and curating offerings from AliExpress would be fast way of starting out...
  - datadrivenangel 3y ago
    Drop shippers will do it automatically without FedEx needing to do any work.
    - rezonant 3y ago
      Honestly, low quality drop shipping is to me Amazon's greatest vulnerability. I would hope FedEx doesn't inherit the same vulnerability.
    - jtbayly 3y ago
      Which might be their plan. But then what’s the point? All you’ve done is recreate the crap experience of Amazon. Why should anybody switch?
      - CoastalCoder 3y ago
        > All you’ve done is recreate the crap experience of Amazon. Why should anybody switch? Well, if FedEx Prime Video didn't insert ads in my videos, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
  - bee_rider 3y ago
    So, like, Amazon’s business model but with one fewer middlemen? Seems plausible enough.
JBorrow 3y ago
It seems to be a competitor to Amazon FBA
WheatMillington 3y ago
Don't get too caught up in the language.