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Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

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Re: Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

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Be careful if you return too many of those shitty products, they will close your account, even if you have a Prime membership. Amazon is shady as fuck and an untrustworthy retailer. The way they treat employees is beyond atrocious. Amazon makes Walmart look ethical and honest in comparison.

Your anecdote is the opposite of my experience.

Doesn't make it false though.

Re: Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

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Curious, will such a move by Amazon make 3rd party sellers fear them more and move to other marketplaces like jet.com or ebay.com? Given amazon's margins really come from its marketplace, they might cannibalize that? Yes, amazon's value for 3rd party sellers is its massive distribution compared to others but its a supply/demand game. If 3rd party sellers start to move to other platforms, maybe jet/ebay can spend more to acquire more demand?

Re: Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

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"Does someone pirate DVDs and put the proper UPC on them?" Yes. That's called counterfeiting. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/30/counterfeit-si... And by the way yes, I understand how commingling works, and Amazon says they will not do it with DVDs. I understand that Amazon says they can trace who provided the goods I receive. That protects Amazon. It does not protect me.

No, Amazon's guarantee protects you: "[You can file a claim when] the item you received was damaged, defective, or materially different from the item represented on the product detail page." http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=5...

I would rather buy from a merchant that does not ship me counterfeit goods.

Re: Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

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Fanbois are downvoting me but this headline illustrates how Amazon operates. They pump the PR and press cycle to get a pop and work it for all it's worth for cash extraction to insiders. Their accounting practices are enron level egregious. This is going to blow up at some point. * Though I must add apology that this is a rather low information post with a low quality link. Mr. Kranzler details elsewhere in his feed…

> Fanbois are downvoting me This breaks the HN guidelines. Please (re-)read them and don't comment like that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment here breaks two points in the HN guidelines.

You don't like me. Ban the account. Don't pretend this about fairness and rules. The "flag" shadow deletion trick is skeezy as hell. This whole thing is a system for weak passive agressive nerds.

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