Consumer Goods: Amazon Kicks out the CRaP, CVS Gets Into CBD
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Amazon has increased its focus on profitability and that means getting rid of items where it “can’t realized a profit” or CRaP as the company unofficially calls them. Host Shannon Jones and Fool Contributor Daniel Kline also discuss whether CVS selling CBD products fits its image as a company focused on health.
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| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day. |
| 0:32.0 | Today is Tuesday, March the sector of the stock market every single day. |
| 0:33.0 | Today is Tuesday, March the 26th, |
| 0:36.0 | and we're talking Consumer Goods. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm your host, Shannon Jones. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm joined via Skype by a foolish contributor fresh off of his weekend cruise ship Dan Klein Dan |
| 0:47.5 | Dan how is life treating you? |
| 0:49.5 | Poorly it sounds like. |
| 0:50.9 | I promise to not make you laugh but my Shannon has a bit of a cold so |
| 0:55.4 | laughing she's gonna cough. My world is still a little bit wobbly. A lot of people |
| 1:00.1 | get sick on a boat. I have trouble after I get off the cruise. For the next couple of |
| 1:04.6 | days, my world is a little bit sloshing around. |
| 1:08.0 | You know, I have to say I fall in the same category after I get off a cruise ship. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm usually a little wobbly. I figured it out it was my caffeine intake |
| 1:15.5 | We'll have to do a follow-up show on how to avoid that for all of our listeners to take cruise ships |
| 1:21.0 | Because I deal with the same thing, but glad to have you back on land |
| 1:27.8 | about cruise ships maybe next month. So if you have any cruise ship questions, send them to us. |
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