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.
Amazon sales in Germany reached $37 billion in 2021, up 26 percent year-on-year. Amazon offered some Flex drivers a one-time payment equal to four weeks’ pay.
Amazon has built a more formal delivery network, relying on small startups obligated to Amazon known as Delivery Service Partners….