UPS - While Amazon Was Distracted FedEx and UPS Made Their Moves
Earlier this year, I suggested the biggest threat to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wasn't a major competitor like Walmart but rather a gang of companies collectively taking action to combat the e-commerce giant's dominance. It's an effort that could take years to make a full-sized dent in Amazon's growth, but it's something investors would be wise to watch nonetheless.
A handful of that gang of competitors just announced their next moves in their chess battle against the king of online shopping. With Amazon's delivery ambitions on hold while it focuses solely on meeting consumers' needs in the midst of the coronavirus contagion, FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and UPS (NYSE: UPS) each made deals with small and medium-sized businesses that may already be frustrated by the online sales platform's heavy-handed ways.
Neither move is a death blow. But this is the sort of action I was talking about.