Amazon Spurs Delivery Startups With Shot at $300,000 Profit
- Support includes vehicles, fuel, insurance, Amazon technology
- Initiative is designed to boost e-commerce shipping capacity
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Amazon.com Inc.’s ever-expanding retail empire is going to need more workers and vehicles to get millions of packages to shoppers’ doors. Taking more control over that growth, the web retailer offered to help anyone who wants to start their own delivery businesses.
The e-commerce giant is seeking to assist hundreds of new small businesses to employ tens of thousands of delivery drivers across the U.S. by providing discounted vehicles, fuel, insurance, uniforms and access to “sophisticated delivery technology,” the Seattle-based company said in a statement Thursday. Startup costs can be as low as $10,000, Amazon said, with an entrepreneur running 40 trucks making $300,000 a year.