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Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by h2odragon on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:12AM (#28851645)
retailers don't work to hide the name brand option or promote their generic alternative over it, usually. Amazon might well have gone further than advertising tricks; if they just failed to make alternative listing available to some number of users... how could that be proved?
Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by jjallen on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:16AM (#28851685)
They may not work to hide the name brand option. They just choose to not offer the brand's products in the store at all, right?

We don't hear about Wal-mart deciding to place Procter & Gamble's laundry detergent on the fourth row down and their private label at eye level in the store, do we?

Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by sp0rk on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:28AM (#28852527)
> We don't hear about Wal-mart deciding to place Procter & Gamble's laundry detergent on the fourth row down and their private label at eye level in the store, do we?

Because that's not at all how Walmart operates. All of the laundry detergent is on the same aisle and the generic versions are immediately next to their brand-name equivalents.

Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by fallingknife on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:16AM (#28851689)
They do, though, by giving it favorable shelf space. Sometimes the even put tags on their product that say "Compare to X!" to point shoppers to compare prices with the equivalent product.
Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by sumedh on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:21AM (#28851750)
> retailers don't work to hide the name brand option or promote their generic alternative over it

They can put brand option on the bottom shelf while the store brand generics on the mid/top shelf so its easier for customers to pick up.