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I see your point and actually agree to an extent. But controlling what goes on on the company's own website doesn't sit well to me. Take this example: Walmart
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
I see your point and actually agree to an extent. But controlling what goes on on the company's own website doesn't sit well to me. Take this example:
Walmart has a hair salon in many of their stores. Walmart's primary business model is not hair but product sales. But obviously Walmart wants you to get their hair cut at their salon. This is similar to the government stepping in and saying that the store must allow other Salon's equal placement in their building. They own the building.
It would be anti-competitive to do something to prevent other salons from opening down the street or lowering the prices in their salon to bellow cost to push out competition. But I don't buy that they can't do what they want in their own store.
- bjl 9y ago> But I don't buy that they can't do what they want in their own store. Then you're unfamiliar with anti-trust law.
- wav-part 9y agoEveryone in the universe is.
- m-s 9y agoUnlike Google in Europe, Walmart doesn't control 90% of the market.
- lerpa 9y agoWhat market, do people have contracts with Google that I am not aware of? Oh right, no, and what they have in their website promises no expectation of doing what you need.
- matt4077 9y agoWell if Wal-Mart owned 95%+ of the retail space in Europe, you can be pretty sure they'd have to allow competitors access in some form or another.