News / Amazon set to take on its own last-mile deliveries as supply chain costs rise

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Deep in the Q&A session that followed the publication of its latest quarterly figures yesterday, came the clearest signal that Amazon will be joining the last-mile delivery sector as part of its wide-ranging push into operating as much of its supply chain as it can.

Chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky told analysts: “We will continue to build our logistics capability, and that will be all the way to end delivery. We’ve been able to increase service levels in many cases by ...