Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:00PM
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Walmart has been doing that for decades. And they probably were not the first. It is not a novel strategy.
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by autoexec on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:07PM
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And Walmart has been repeatedly sued for doing it, just like Amazon is being sued now.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by jsight on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:19PM
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My biggest issue with the way Wal-Mart (and most other retail) did it is that it was... scammy.
Want an HDMI cable? Here's an overpriced Monster cable. Oh, don't want to pay absurdly high prices? Save money by buying one that is only 300% more than it should be instead of 400%!
The nice thing about Amazon was that it broke this model. Suddenly you could buy Anker or (insert small third party here) at very reasonable prices.
Amazon destroying those competitors is doing some damage to this, though.