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I would really not like to double my grocery bill by being excluded from buying the store brand items. I actually like Great Value because it's half the price,

• mabbo 4y ago
  The best way to keep prices low is strong competition. Amazon Basics undercuts competitors by having no cost to sell on the Amazon marketplace. Then once the competitor they're imitating is out of business, they can raise prices, and you wind up paying more. I think it would be perfectly fine if the Basics brand existed as an independent company and paid the same fees as everyone else. But real competitors can't sell at a loss indefinitely just to win over the whole market.
  • sithadmin 4y ago
    >Amazon Basics undercuts competitors by having no cost to sell on the Amazon marketplace. Amazon branded products have an advantage through access to analytics, not cost of doing business. Amazon issues internal chargebacks to subsidiaries and business units for use of their platforms.
    • supercheetah 4y ago
      That's still an unfair advantage to Amazon Basics that competitors can't get.
    • mabbo 4y ago
      Good points. Still, even with those charges, Amazon can just choose to take losses knowing they aren't really losses. They can run that brand unprofitably and if the losses are coming from distribution fees being charged internally, well, the company still comes out ahead. And the internal analytics is really a much worse abuse. I suspect that grocery stores make their internal brands the same way, and again, I'm strongly opposed to that being allowed.