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Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by namdnay on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:50AM (#28852029)
Walmart owns Walmart stores and has enormous information on what sells well and can use for its own benefits
Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by mthoms on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:09PM (#28854747)
Walmart doesn't know where I live/lived, what I've purchased for the past decade, what I might be mildly interested in (searched for at one point), what movies I watch, what books I read, etc, etc.

Walmart cannot cater it's experience to what it thinks I might buy. Amazon can.

It's just not the same. There is a huge asymmetry of information (from both suppliers and customers) that makes Amazons overall practice feel much more predatory.

Oh, and Amazon is 50% of all online retail. Walmart is something like 10% of all brick and mortar retail.