CG: What does COVID-19 mean for the Future of Delivery?

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Historically, the delivery industry has been ridiculed as an industry with low margins and poor economics. However, the spread of COVID-19 has proven that this unprofitable business may still be an essential service. Join Emily Flippen as she asks Motley Fool contributor Dan Kline how he sees the impact of this global pandemic on the future of the delivery business.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:11.5	I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick
0:14.4	Seibel. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials.
0:17.8	Today we're talking consumer goods.
0:19.6	Wild Cars. Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in.
0:25.0	It's Tuesday March 31st and I'm your host Emily Flippin.
0:31.0	Joining me today to break down how the delivery industry
0:34.8	has been handling the COVID-19 crisis
0:37.5	is Motley Fool contributor Dan Klein.
0:39.8	Dan, how you doing?
0:41.5	Oh, hey there, Emily, I'm as good as can be expected, I guess is how you'd say it.
0:46.2	Yeah, it feels pointless to be asking that right now.
0:49.2	Yeah, I mean, look, I don't want to underplay it.
0:50.9	I'm blessed compared to most people. working my wife is working my son went back to
0:56.2	sort of school today digital oh really I mean it's ridiculous like his teacher posted the first lesson at the bottom of the lesson my son was all excited was the answer key.
1:07.5	So it's definitely a work in progress in terms of getting these things done.
1:13.0	But, you know, compared to most people,
1:15.0	we have it easy.
1:15.6	So me complaining that, you know,
1:17.3	I can't be on a trip is probably not particularly fair.
1:21.8	Well, that's fair enough. I am in Maryland where we are now out to stay at home and definitely
1:27.3	order myself so I am losing it my own on my own way.
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