Amazon's holiday-quarter forecast disappoints as labor, supply issues mount

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Amazon's holiday-quarter forecast disappoints

:Amazon.com Inc on Thursday reported a slump in profit that it expects will continue through the holiday quarter, as heavy spending to maintain delivery operations diminishes the company's windfall from online shopping.After a year of blockbuster results, the world's largest online retailer is facing a tougher outlook.

Andy Jassy, who took the helm of Amazon as CEO in July, said in a press release that the company would incur several billion dollars of extra expenses in its consumer business to deal with higher shipping costs, increased wages and labor shortages. To juice sales, the company started encouraging customers to shop holiday deals as early as Oct. 4 this year.

 

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