Amazon Flex: How does this Business Model work?
Amazon Flex is the latest Business Model launched by Amazon. Basically, it is a “Last Mile Delivery” of package by non-regular and independent “Drivers”, who are locally available as per their own schedule. The “Last Mile Delivery” accounts for about 50% of the shipment cost and 80% of the unreliability of delivering the article on time, when it was being done by the conventional Delivery Persons (mostly Uber Drivers). This Business Model works on the principle that people, while moving in their own localities, in their own vehicles, can stop for a while to deliver a packet in their own area, and can earn handsome money on a go. The best thing about this concept is that the Delivery Person can decide his own availability. Initially, Amazon Flex was launched in selected regions like North America, Germany, Spain, Japan, Singapore and the UK, and now it has come to India as well. Now let us see how this Business Model actually works. When a person wants to be associated w...