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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Carl Quintanilla. You're listening to see NBC's Tech Check. Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern. Listen in. |
0:06.8 | Good Friday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Quintanilla with John Ford and Gerberosa. What an hour we have ahead. |
0:12.7 | The CEOs of Intel, Snap, and Roku, |
0:16.3 | all join us in the next 60 minutes. |
0:18.5 | Plus, Apple's Red again, warning of this $8 billion |
0:21.5 | blindside due to supply constraints. |
0:23.6 | Amazon 4 billion dollar loss, bleak guidance, and the slowest growth since the |
0:28.9 | dot-com bubble burst. |
0:30.4 | At stocks down double digits, it's on pace for its worst day in over a decade. |
0:34.0 | Now down nearly 30% since Andy Jassie took the reins about a year ago. |
0:39.0 | Rising costs a big part of the pain for Amazon. The company says inflation over |
0:43.8 | investment in warehouses. Extra staffing costs them $6 billion in Q1. |
0:48.7 | Jassy says we're no longer chasing physical or staffing capacity. Our teams are squarely |
0:53.8 | focused on improving productivity and cost efficiencies throughout our |
0:58.2 | fulfillment network. He added this may take some time. John we're going to watch |
1:02.4 | this closely a lot of chatter today |
1:04.0 | about whether or not Q4 will be the first profitable retail quarter and |
1:09.2 | whether or not layoffs for the next chapter. Well this is particularly fascinating Carl and D given this is |
1:16.7 | kind of Andy Jassy's first big retail e-commerce decision moment I'll say because as Amazon discussed on the call |
1:25.1 | the capacity build-outs in logistics that were in place a year ago that that turned |
1:31.3 | out to be too much those were a a long time coming. Those have been |
1:34.4 | put in place before Jassy himself took the CEO role. And now he's got to adjust |
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