It's Wednesday, April 8th.

Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill with me.

From the great state of Connecticut, it's Abby Mallin.

Good to see you.

Yeah, good to be here. We got a bunch of things to get to, including the fact that

earning season is heating up. Let's start with Amazon because Amazon came out and announced that they are

suspending the Amazon shipping service in June. This is a service, this is the service that is the competitor to UPS and FedEx because it delivers

basically it delivers non-Amazon packages and this is available in Los Angeles and a few other cities but I'm

curious what you thought when you saw this news. Yeah so it is halting the delivery

service of just those non-Amazon packages starting in June.

And you're right, they pick up directly from the business and then delivery directly to consumers.

So it doesn't, in this operation, nothing was going through Amazon warehouses and I think you know halting this right now really makes sense

Amazon has said that they're seeing a surge in demand and there's only so many know, I think logistics is a hard business, there's only so many roads that people can use and so many trucks that people have available.

And so obviously they have to first their customers, right? So I'm not surprised to see this move and I

think it just really underscores what a competitive and really commoditized

business shipping is.

Do you think it's possible that Amazon

ends up rethinking the shipping business,

or do you think this is a situation

where they're just literally just hitting the

pause button on this because they want to own that last mile.

They would, you know, if they could wave a magic wand in five years or ten years, they've taken

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