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Q Question: As discussed in lecture one (slides and video), Amazon may be building an extensive freight delivery network in the future. You may have already noticed that Amazon-branded delivery vehicles are becoming more common. Do you think this represents a potential threat for firms such as Fedex and UPS? What recommendations would you give UPS and Fedex to remain competitive during the next 20 years? A good short documentary about this topic is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efs3PyR8iBw To get the maximum points for this discussion, you must make (A) make an initial post to answer the question(s) above and (B) reply to at least one other student post. Grading rubric for both posts: Answers to this assignment are subjective. Therefore, I am only grading your posts based on the following objective aspects: • Substantive Thoughts Expressed: Your thoughts and positions should be clearly explained. • Length: Initial posts should be at least 5 sentences long. Response posts should be at least 3 sentences long. • Completeness: Your initial post should cover all parts of the discussion question(s).

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The building up of an extensive freight delivery network in the future by Amazon will definitely be a potential threat for firms like Fedex and UPS. This is because the time of delivery by Amazon to customers will be quicker than Fedex and UPS. There will be quicker replacing of the products which are returned by customers for some reason. Therefore, Amazon might obtain returned products from customers and replace such products within the day of obtaining returned products from customers.