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I feel like truckers should tell Walmart to shove it. This is getting abusive
In the long term, truckers are best served by having competition in the marketplace. If there is only one big customer on the market then they have little chance of getting fair rates.
First AWS, now this. At what point does the DOJ step in? Isn't this anticompetitive behavior? I've heard that Reagan-era deregulation changed a lot of the relevant law, but I'm not clear on how. Is Walmart doing this with the expectation of impunity because there's no longer a crime to charge them with, or because they see themselves as immune to prosecution?
I feel like truckers should tell Walmart to shove it. This is getting abusive
In the short term, this could benefit the truckers. Rates may go up as each of the larger customers raises rates to attract them. In the long term, truckers are best served by having competition in the marketplace. If there is only one big customer on the market then they have little chance of getting fair rates.
"Amazon offers $0.10 more per mile, leaving Walmart with no truckers" But really, Wal-mart needs to get over themselves and do what they need to do to adapt, rather than being the bully they've always been. It isn't like they refuse technology, they have a pretty decent technology team as far as I can tell.
First AWS, now this. At what point does the DOJ step in? Isn't this anticompetitive behavior? I've heard that Reagan-era deregulation changed a lot of the relevant law, but I'm not clear on how. Is Walmart doing this with the expectation of impunity because there's no longer a crime to charge them with, or because they see themselves as immune to prosecution?
Hard to make the case that walmart is a monopoly. For what its worth amazon has pulled similar stunts like not selling the chromecast.
*A argument, not one that would hold in court. IANAL.
EDIT: It seems I misunderstood Amazon's lack of Chromecast support. I hadn't thought of trying to buy Chromecast through Amazon before. I own three of them and bought all through the Google store.
fuck Walmart. You don't hear anything about Amazon workers being on public assistance because they are payed enough and get enough hours to survive on their own. Around the holidays Walmart takes food and toy donations for their workers inside their break rooms. It's a bad company and I hope it gets killed off.