Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin...
by matt4077 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:11AM
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Well if Wal-Mart owned 95%+ of the retail space in Europe, you can be pretty sure they'd have to allow competitors access in some form or another.
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin...
by bjl on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:30AM
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> But I don't buy that they can't do what they want in their own store.
Then you're unfamiliar with anti-trust law.
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin...
by wav-part on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:34AM
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Everyone in the universe is.
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin...
by m-s on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:33AM
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Unlike Google in Europe, Walmart doesn't control 90% of the market.
Walmart has a hair salon in many of their stores. Walmart's primary business model is not hair but product sales. But obviously Walmart wants you to get their hair cut at their salon. This is similar to the government stepping in and saying that the store must allow other Salon's equal placement in their building. They own the building.
It would be anti-competitive to do something to prevent other salons from opening down the street or lowering the prices in their salon to bellow cost to push out competition. But I don't buy that they can't do what they want in their own store.