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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by throwaway2048 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:46AM (#14603239)
Its not stupid to not want to feed money and data about your operations to a direct competitor.

Maybe amazon would look at the data, maybe they wouldn't but if they did they would do it in a way that was nearly 100% impossible to ever prove.

Corporate espionage is a very deep rabbit hole, and goes on far more often than people think it does.

Why give them the opportunity to do so?

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by perseusprime11 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:05AM (#14603872)
It is very hard to do business if you think like that. Do you think Amazon sabotaged Netflix on the day before Thanksgiving a while back to further their own business? I don' think so.
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by sqeaky on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:56PM (#14606863)
Any specific instance is very difficult to prove, but corporate espionage is so easy to hide it would be foolish not to accept that it is happening at background level.
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