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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:53PM (#37662160)
Grocery stores generally don't have monopoly power to start with, and therefore cannot illegally maintain such power no matter what they do.
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by HDThoreaun on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:55PM (#37663208)
They have just as much as Amazon does. Walmart probably has more.
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:06PM (#37663394)
> They have just as much as Amazon does.

What individual grocery firm has a monopoly of the degree that the FTC has identified for Amazon in the two relevant markets for this case over any market, what is that market, and where is the evidence for the claimed monopoly?

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by HDThoreaun on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:10PM (#37663471)
Not really feeling like doing a bunch of research right now but walmart has 36% of the grocery market in this country and many local monopolies. I don't think Amazon is above 50% in any ecommerce sectors so seems pretty similar to me. Walmart also is known for the same stuff Amazon does where it bans the companies it buys from from charging less elsewhere.
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