Amazon continued to show it's as vulnerable to market winds as anyone else, with UPS also reporting a good news/bad news Q4. And in an interesting twist, five execs from the former Rakuten Super Logistics found a new home at Speed Commerce.

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Amazon reported a mix bag of results for its fourth quarter and year, with ad revenue up but ecommerce sales down, and even the vaunted Amazon Web Services, the company’s profit driver for years, fell short of expectations in what executives repeatedly called an "uncertain economy."
With a month of 2023 behind us, everyone in retail is wondering how consumer trends will play out this year in the face of ongoing (but lessening) inflation and a tricky macroeconomic picture, to say the least. To get a better understanding of the months ahead, we spoke with Sarah Wyeth, Retail Sector Lead for S&P Global Ratings.
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