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Re:Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag by wgerard on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:57AM (#16986594)
> Businesses should be allowed to create whatever products they want, as long as they don't do anti-competitive things like work together with their competitors to fix prices.

Or say, if they owned a huge marketplace and eventually started producing a product, and then refused to stock their competitor's product in the huge marketplace.

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Re:Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag by reaperducer on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:41PM (#16987521)
Do you demand that the local supermarket carry every brand of chili on earth?
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Re:Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag by wgerard on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:22PM (#16988399)
I don't think that's a good analogy; there are significant differences between a local supermarket (local, items must fit in the store) and Amazon's marketplace (global, items can be located anywhere globally within reason).
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Re:Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag by mistermann on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:09PM (#16991125)
The justice department(?) demanded that Microsoft stop bundling (or forcing, can't remember the specifics) IE on Windows.

Laissez faire capitalism has both benefits and risks, casual/militant dismissal of concerns can sometimes have negative consequences, sometimes very severe.

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