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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 wi
by 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 agoYeah honestly this could work out for them-- but the name makes me think of FTX...
- pstuart 3y agoHarvesting and curating offerings from AliExpress would be fast way of starting out...
- datadrivenangel 3y agoDrop shippers will do it automatically without FedEx needing to do any work.
- rezonant 3y agoHonestly, low quality drop shipping is to me Amazon's greatest vulnerability. I would hope FedEx doesn't inherit the same vulnerability.
- jtbayly 3y agoWhich 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 agoSo, like, Amazon’s business model but with one fewer middlemen? Seems plausible enough.