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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by tw04 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:51PM (#23994014)
I hate doing this, but just want to point out the humor of people downvoting the comment without a SINGLE example to counter my point. Either you've never shopped at Costco or you're just pissed that Amazon is 100% NOT equivalent to Costco despite the really poor analogy.

And how could they be? Costco makes their money off membership fees - Amazon is attempting to make their money on driving their competitors out of business through what can only be described as monopolistic practices. Costco isn't an open bazaar that tracks goods sold and enters markets where they see "vendors" being successful. They sell a small number of items at a fair price - and don't intentionally screw their suppliers.

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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:02AM (#23996056)
Because the point they are making is irrelevant. It doesn't matter to the discussion whether or not Kirkland brand items have other name brands next to them
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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by tw04 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:29AM (#23997860)
It absolutely does, the claim was that Kirkland does what Amazon does and it's patently false. Kirkland doesn't stock name brand items, figure out what customers are buying the most of, then build a competitor while giving priority to their own brand which was the accusation.
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