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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by kennywinker on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:00AM (#28926603)
On top of the lying, which another commenter pointed out is the major issue - Target doesn't pretend to be a marketplace. It's a curated store, some of the products are whitelabel, some are not. Amazon presents itself as a marketplace, where buyers and sellers can come together.

Imagine I owned a shopping mall, and every time a business renting from me was successful I would hike up their rent and open a copycat shop in the stall next door... I think that's a closer analogy than the Target one.

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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by tarr11 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:03AM (#28926619)
Most corporate mall landlords have a requirement that you submit your monthly sales numbers and take a percentage of sales in addition to your rent.
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by asdff on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:44AM (#28927174)
Most retail stores also price shelf space according to sales too. Amazon on the other hand doesn't have any mechanism for you the brand to get preferential shelf space. In a mall you probably want a store by the entrance where everyone walks by, in a target you want shelf space at eye level, so there might be a premium for these spaces if you would like them. Can't do anything like that on Amazon. Third party scam products and name brands are weighed equally in search results. Amazon products actually get better placement, something you'd never see in a Target with their store brands since third party brands want to buy access to better placement and target wants to lease space at a premium to these brands.
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by didibus on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:37AM (#28926811)
> Target Plus Marketplace is one of the top-tier eCommerce marketplaces, along with Amazon Marketplace and Walmart Marketplace, that cater to third party retailers. Target, one of the biggest retail chains in the United States, entered the eCommerce marketing realm in February 2019 and expanded its product assortment by allowing third party retailers to sell on Target.com
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by tablespoon on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:21AM (#28927375)
You did not provide your source, but I found it: https://thriveagency.com/target-plus-marketplace/. Your quotation seems a bit selective, the next sentence is:

> Unlike Amazon and Walmart Marketplace, however, Target Marketplace is an invitation-only platform.

That seems like a salient difference.

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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by didibus on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:57AM (#28928382)
Well you can just go to https://plus.target.com/ that's their landing page.

What difference does it make? They could still mine their data and favor their own white label products? And it's not like Amazon and Walmart and NewEgg (ya they're a marketplace too now) don't have a vetting process when someone asks to become a seller.

My bet is Target is just starting to scale up and they're simply not ready for opening it up fully yet. Though its possible that they are also hoping to differentiate themselves with having a more curated set of 3rd party sellers.

But bottom line, they've been a marketplace since 2019, so it's incorrect to say they aren't.

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