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Walmart and Target can get truckloads of items to a relatively few stores. Amazon can get items to people’s houses


Right, which Amazon originally accomplished with huge assistance from expensive contracts with UPS, but they used software (and new hardware) and mobile internet technology to figure out how to reduce their delivery costs by being able to figure out how to incentivize cheaper independent contractors to deliver their packages, rather than expensive UPS union employees.


They also built warehouses closer to the customers and bought Kiva to automate their warehouses.




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