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I thought this was common knowledge. Don’t the chains like Walmart do the exact same things?
Most brands at Walmart and other stores are sold many other places.
why marketplaces are able to compete with their sellers is beyond me.
Why sellers would use a market place that is obviously going to compete with them is beyond me.
> a practice at odds with the company’s stated policies...
> .. as stated to congress
I thought this was common knowledge. Don’t the chains like Walmart do the exact same things?
Many Amazon sellers only sell on Amazon, or have a large majority of their business sales there. This is equivalent to having insight to almost your entire business. Most brands at Walmart and other stores are sold many other places.
Does anyone really think that any retailer launches a competing product in a category without looking at all their supplier data?
If you want distribution you risk this. The only way to avoid it, it's to do direct to consumer or having a product that is extremely hard to copy.
I thought this was common knowledge. Don’t the chains like Walmart do the exact same things?
Many Amazon sellers only sell on Amazon, or have a large majority of their business sales there. This is equivalent to having insight to almost your entire business. Most brands at Walmart and other stores are sold many other places.
I would love to hear of consumer facing (B2C) online businesses who are successfully operating without any Google or Amazon dependencies to see if it's even possible in the current online ecosystem.
My hypothesis is that it isn't, and as such Amazon and Google should be broken up. They have close to a functional monopoly on consumers, but I'm putting forward that they also have a functional monopoly on online businesses in commerce.
Of course they do. Like everybody else. Who doesn't do market research?
For example, ARM licenses CPU core designs to chip manufacturers, but they don't make their own chips, as doing so would turn their customers into their competitors.
Businesses like contract manufacturers are similar - Foxconn wouldn't start making their own smartphone.
Of course, not every company takes that approach.