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Re:California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers b... by ceph_ on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:23PM (#32870078)
The proper analogy would be Safeway forbidding Nabisco from letting their products be sold cheaper at any other supermarket. Which is ridiculous.
Re:California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers b... by legitster on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:45PM (#32871078)
I worked for Frito-Lay for several years and you better believe that's how supermarkets work. More than once I've been called in the middle of the night to a store to rip down an endcap of chips because the store got undercut by another (and in their defense, why would they give us valuable floor space on a promotion that won't sell).

I think though as comparison that the power dynamic is flipped. Exclusivity agreements usually were to the benefit of the store (against big brands at least). But against the small brands on Amazon, they favor Amazon.

Re:California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers b... by ComputerGuru on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:12PM (#32870688)
Yet that happens all the time. I've heard stories of companies going bankrupt after retail giant X learned competitor Y was selling their product for less, in breach of their contract (feel free to replace "contract" with Amazon ToS).