A primary concern, said executives who were in those meetings, was not whether Amazon could effectively build such a complex network. Rather, it revolved around whether getting into the transportation business would increase Amazon’s exposure to unions. Delivery stations would have to be placed in the urban areas where most of Amazon’s customers lived—places like New York City and New Jersey that were the locus of the organized labor movement. Clark and his colleagues assuaged themselves by considering the nonunion workforces of FedEx Ground, DHL, and pretty much every other ground delivery
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