Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo...
by Paul-ish on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:23PM
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Companies don't jack up prices anymore. They lower their costs (ie reduce labor). It ends up inore profit and doesn't set off alarms at the FTC, which looks for harm to the consumer. Monopsony has been shown to reduce wages[1].
[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/000312241876244...