Whats the point in making a budget ketchup brand if Safeway has their own? I can't compete with their margins there especially with that level of competition.
I give a bit of a pass here to kirkland stuff cuz it never feels like a race to the bottom nor do I feel like costco just advertises the hell out of it over other goods.
Depending on which case you look at, they allege different harms. In some cases they allege harm to suppliers or to employees, but in others they make the case for anti-consumer harm.
Hopefully folks won't continue to downvote me. Whether you agree with these folks or not (and I'm not trying to make their case for them here), that is what their position is. It is wise to understand them, even if we don't agree with them.
> Unless the monopoly is granted/enforced by the government this has literally never happened.
It happens often enough. So often, you can find stories about it all over...if you looked.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/business/amazon-dc-lawsui...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/11/21431962/public-citizen-a...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-secret-project-bernanke...
etc. It's a matter of them getting caught and when, because nothing lasts forever, even for the tech robber barons.
Nothing, and they aren't. Except they're maybe the biggest.
The intellectual foundation of this new movement isn't specifically anti big tech. It's anti all kinds of anticompetitive business practices, many of which have had huge negative effects outside of tech. Grocery stores are one of them, but one can point to any area of the economy and find businesses engaging in what is currently standard practice that the new movement is seeking to outlaw, or in many cases just restore the teeth to laws that have been ignored for years, or just so narrowly interpreted that they're meaningless.