Amazon’s Biggest Bull Says It Should Disrupt Gas Stations

Amazon.com Inc. is a dominant player in industries as diverse as cloud computing, streaming media, and of course e-commerce, but the next business it should set its sights on is decidedly more old fashioned: gas stations.

That view comes courtesy of DA Davidson, which wrote that the company could benefit from expanding its portfolio of physical stores -- which already includes “pop-up” stores and the Whole Foods grocery chain -- as “another means for it to advance its delivery efforts.”