Andrew Nakkache

Great look into Amazon’s fulfillment center, Andrew! This is a great way to break it down: “The FC is the anchor of Amazon’s physical operations, the brick and mortar behind the virtual button you tap on your phone to summon a watch or a shirt or a garden hose or Cards Against Humanity or just about anything else to your doorstep.” Your questions are also thought provoking, so I am definitely interested to hear what you all think!

I think that Amazon will start their own shipping service very soon. I would imagine that it would just be a source of increased revenue so it would make sense for them to get involved. They are going to start using drones soon, but I would imagine that Amazon will also have some sort of ground fleet of trucks for times that a drone cannot be sent out (bad weather, very large package, etc.) but that remains to be seen. I think it would be very smart of Amazon to begin shipping its own products, but there are also a lot of challenges that will be faced by Amazon if they choose to do so.

Very good article about the topic in the chapters. I do as well believe that it would be smart for Amazon to start their own shipping services soon. They have an abundance of capital and they like many other companies based online need to be ever adapting, and a great way to adapt is to become more tangible for them or a brick and mortar type of business. With the abundance of capital that Amazon has they have much flexibility with which direction they want to go in the future. Purchasing another company is a definite possibility and one I am sure that their shareholders would like.