Amazon to Cease Gig Economy Delivery Service in 2nd Largest Market

Amazon to Cease Gig Economy Delivery Service in 2nd Largest Market
The new delivery warehouse of the US e-commerce company Amazon in Rozenburg-Schiphol, Netherlands, on July 13, 2021. Marco de Swart/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
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Amazon.com Inc looks to shut down its gig economy delivery service in Germany, its second-largest market after the U.S., for undisclosed reasons, Bloomberg reports.

Uber’s Flex program, which signed off in the U.S. in 2015 before expanding to Germany two years later, paid drivers to ferry packages in their vehicles from Amazon warehouses to customers’ homes.