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Yes and it is also a borderline thing to me. Amazon Basics does the same thing and it's pretty messed up that you can put a product in the same marketplace you

• scarface_74 3y ago
  So would you rather pay $30 for Sudafed or buy the house brand for $15?
  • 15457345234 3y ago
    The fact remains that plenty of people prefer the name brand, and there's a type of 'fairness' baked in to this scenario as the house brands are very often packaged in a way that looks, simply, cheap; the stores are often paid by the brand name marketers for shelf space so they have a vested interest in not competing too hard with their house brand, so they package in a way which makes it look a bit second rate.
• apurva_a 3y ago
  Retail shelf space is a constrained physical variable as opposed to screen space which is virtually unlimited. Putting own white label product on shelf incurs stocking and restocking costs as well as shelf space which could have been used to sale other branded products. Apple/YouTube music not having any platform fee does give them an unfair advantage. Not sure how they rank in their own app stores in music categories though. Android user here so YouTube comes installed by default and even Yt music. Not sure if Apple music comes pre-installed as well. If it does, it does give another advantage to Apple.
  • scarface_74 3y ago
    And yet Spotify still has a larger market share.