Re:Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market domin...
by detaro on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:05AM
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Right, but there is a point to "it says Amazon Prime" == "you can have it shipped to a Prime locker". And just like to get something in a Poste Italiane locker you need to ship it with them (I heavily assume), that needs to involve Amazon logistics somehow, whereas everything else doesn't.
This actually makes me wonder about something I've noticed in Germany: Amazon has a DHL locker on file as my shipping address. But for third-party stuff not via FBA it's not available (at least usually), as Amazon doesn't know if the shipper will use DHL. Can a seller explicitly declare "yes, I'll ship that to DHL lockers" when setting up the product with Amazon, or are they excluded from that too?
Re:Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market domin...
by darkwater on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:41AM
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But the Amazon locker point you are making it's perfectly in line with this fine: if Amazon would let other ships Amazon packages (and Amazon packages only) to those lockers, it would be clearly a sign they are not abusing their dominance in one market (online sales) to drive another market (logistics/last-mile delivery). Full disclosure: I work for a last-mile delivery company even thou in this case is not direct competence.
> That one is tricky. Although I guess the market dominance argument could still be used to say "well, your problem to figure out how to solve that, it's not absolutely impossible to let others ship stuff to those too"
Poste Italiane (the national postal service) has those kind of lockers as well AFAIK, plus offices in every town where you can collect the packages (OK, that's probably not an advantage given how slow they are and the big queues you have to do each time).