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Prime Video isn't a monopoly, but Amazon clearly has Significant Market Power when it comes to retail. They're anti-competitively vertically bundling Prime Vide
by orra 4y ago
Prime Video isn't a monopoly, but Amazon clearly has Significant Market Power when it comes to retail. They're anti-competitively vertically bundling Prime Video along with retail delivery.
- runako 4y agoTheir largest competitor is Walmart. Walmart's bundle includes video, fuel discounts, from-store delivery, long-haul delivery. Further, the Walmart.com e-commerce site is subsidized by the Walmart bricks & mortar operation. Businesses are allowed to do more than one thing. I'm not sure when it became popular to try to strip down businesses to a single SKU each, and it's not obvious to me that consumers (or anyone) benefits from pursuit of that goal.
- conductr 4y agoCould make a case that local retail is anticompetitive by not incorporating film production cost into a gallon of milk. Or maybe they’re anticompetitive because they have physical stores and do not need to bear the burden of labor/vehicle/fuel to deliver each order. I think it’s a bit absurd to call in the regulators. Retail is hyper competitive and part of that is they all choose these odd little perks/differentiators to entice customer loyalty. It’s a net positive to the consumer.