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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by lacker on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:18PM (#37663575)
According to the best statistics I can find, in the US, Amazon has 37.8 percent of the retail e-commerce market.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274255/market-share-of-t...

The simplest pro-Amazon case is that they do not have monopoly power, because they are not a monopoly.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by rat9988 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:58PM (#37664149)
As a seller who wants to sell retail, what is the marketshare of available platforms?
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by crazygringo on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:14PM (#37664420)
It really depends on how you define it, but Amazon, Walmart and Shopify are all excellent mainstream choices. This gives you plenty of numbers for comparison:

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/amazon-walmart-s...

Then obviously you're also got direct-to-consumer via your own website, and lots of niche channels like Etsy, Wayfair, and so forth.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:08PM (#37665164)
> The simplest pro-Amazon case is that they do not have monopoly power, because they are not a monopoly.

It's also odd that their retail business doesn't make any money if they're supposed to have market power.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by tristan957 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:28PM (#37665404)
You do not need > 50% market share for the government to go after you for monopolistic practices. If Amazon made that case in court, they would be laughed out of the building.
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