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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Sanders agrees with Trump that Amazon is problematic [View all]CentralMass
(16,996 posts)This is not particularly a driving issue of mine however seeing Sanders getting slimed by it resulted in me revisiting it. IMO Amazon uses predatory and monopolistic business practices. Practice like selling books at a loss for 3 years to drive your competitors out of business. Or when they throw in the towel and start selling on Amazon as a third party seller Amazon undercuts them and or pushes there equivalent product as the top cho once even in cases where it ismore expensive.
Their ultimate goal is that you must be an Anazon customer to purchase anything. They strive to own and control the infrastructure for all online commerce. They are buying brick and mortar store and ttempting to monopolize those markets. Like Whole Foods. You can see it coming where you need to be an Amazom member to get preferential pricing on or offline.
They have also displaced many retail jobs and turned them into fewer warehouse order picking jobs (with less the stellar wages and working conditions)and are displacing those jobs with automation.