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Amazon. It's the tech giant that's always looking for new ways to get their customers.

Anything they want is as fast as possible.

The company's even promised to push the boundaries of super-fast delivery times with futuristic

technology, like delivery drones. But in rural America, something different is developing,

something that resembles the gig economy more than a techno utopia.

In the rural areas, Amazon is pitching this opportunity not as, you know,

hey, small business owner, ditch your business, and your new business is an Amazon delivery

company. They're pitching it as a side hustle of sorts. That's recode senior correspondent Jason

Del Rey, who recently wrote about Amazon's new pitch to mom and pop businesses across the country.

So Amazon is partnering with local mom and pop businesses. These are not delivery businesses.

These are all sorts of just run of the bill, main street businesses to actually deliver

Amazon packages on Amazon's behalf. And this is occurring in rural and other remote areas of the

country where houses may be spread far apart, and Amazon hasn't had a lot of success yet

delivering packages there on its own. And does Amazon give these small businesses any requirements

or demands for joining the program? Yes, so it seems like the requirements are pretty thin

in some ways. So no delivery experience needed. You need to have some sort of physical presence

so that an Amazon staff member can drop packages at your place of business each morning.

But the real requirements are you have to be willing to deliver or have people work for you

willing to deliver seven days a week, almost every day of the year. I think Amazon lists about

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