Amazon Bricks Brick & Mortar, 3 Ford Sectors, & A New Kind of Investment

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Lots of movement in the retail sector today with Amazon bailing on its brick and mortar execution. We also dive a little deeper into Ford’s decision to split ICE and EV business units. Also, a new tech fund which is funded by Dealers. 

• Amazon Says Bye to Bookstores
  • 68 Amazon Books Stores to close
  • Still focused on Brick & Mortar Amazon food & apparel entities
• Ford split revisited: 
  • Why did it ever make sense to have the same people working on both?
  • How could we be (as an industry) doing this inside our stores? 
    • Marketing and technology
    • Sales and CX
• Automotive Ventures DealerFund by Steve Greenfield
  • Multi-rooftop franchise dealers with capacity to embrace new technologies
  • Check out the Auto Intel Report

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