The Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet

34 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by dredmorbius
(theguardian.com)

7 Comments

al_borland

3 hours ago

Amazon needed some good old fashioned trust busting years ago. It’s long overdue. Now, because they’ve waited so long, it’s unlikely prices will ever be able to go down to what they should be without Amazon’s interference.

timnetworks

3 hours ago

Amazon is garbage. The majority of goods on amazon are trash too. Everything about it is shitty unless you think it's neat that a guy drives a truck clear across your town because you can't be bothered. And those people are trash too.

mindslight

2 hours ago

I'm all for criticizing Amazon where it makes sense, but...

> guy drives a truck clear across your town because you can't be bothered.

Can't be bothered to what? Get things shipped to a UPS or Fedex depot for pickup?

Or are you seriously trying to imply the better alternative is to drive your own car to a brick and mortar store, walk in with ambiguous purchase intent, suffer limited selection and lack of price context, and think your suffering is noble or something?

Slow_Hand

an hour ago

Not to mention that Amazon drivers are delivering to dozens of stops along their route to you, making them far more efficient compared to each consumer traveling to the store in their own vehicles.

user

an hour ago

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fhn

4 hours ago

this is monopolistic behavior. I think a yearly billion dollar inflation adjusted fine sounds about right.