1 pts Question 14 Walmart is profitable because it is in a very profitable industry True O False Questions 15-27 are based on the articles found in the packet linked here: Part One Midterm Passage Packet 2021.df Question 15 1 pts Questions 15-18 are based on the Amazon article in the packet linked above. (Amazon article question): According to the article, "Amazon is closer to actually rolling out a shipping service of its own." Based on this sentence, if you were doing a five forces analysis of the shipping services industry, Amazon would be a Questions 15-18 refer to the mi cose below. February 09, 2018 The Wall Street Journal reported Amaron is closer to actually rolling out a shipping service of its own. It's being piloted here in Los Angeles, delivering stuff sold by third-party vendors on Amazon's site. It's an interesting and possibly eventually significant entry in the getting stuff into-consumers-hands business. But, as Marketplace's Aaron Schrank reports, Amazon is stila lone ways from replacing its present delivery partners Amazon's been ramping up its own delivery operations for years, but the e-commerce antis still heavily rellent on the vast networks of UPS and FedEx to get stuff to your house. Analyst Roger Kay at Endpoint Technologies doesn't see that changing. He said "Amaton, in order to really compete directly would have to field an enormous feet of trucks and have all these depots and warehouses, and there's quite a lot of investment there." UPS plans to spend 57 billion this year uppgrading is delivery network, Supply chain consultant Foster Finley at Partners says Amazon does have one advantage more real-time customer dota Finely said they becay have great insight into avalability, shipment points, stock morse than UPS and fedts who typically are limited to saying this is what happened out Amazon pas account for about 7 percent of UPS volume and less than 3 percent for Tefby Growing e-commerce sales have been good for major carrier, but Michael Pachter at Wedbush Securities to Amaron que ready to compete in that space Headed and UP were ined in one day. These guys have been in these business for decades and they're survivors because they're really good at it achter says Amaron probably is trying to replace its partner, just quoise better deals out of them. Pachter continued "And if Fedex and UPS say okay instead of making a 10 percent margin on your business, we'll make an percent margin, then Aston wins. AledEx spokesmans the notion of Amazon being a real threat demonstrates a lack of basic understanding of the full scale of the bal transportation industry