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Walmart buying cheap crappy TV brand is antitrust in a world that has many cheap crappy TV brands? At least the Microsoft and IE thing made some sense, it's not
by lebean 3y ago
Walmart buying cheap crappy TV brand is antitrust in a world that has many cheap crappy TV brands? At least the Microsoft and IE thing made some sense, it's not like we're hurting for choice here.
- bearjaws 3y agoClearly worked enough with Onn brand for them to keep consolidating. Just at the surface level this hurts: 1. Other brands selling TVs in Walmart. 2. Advertisement space will be cheaper for Walmart when they advertise on their own TVs, toeing the line of anti-trust. 3. Companies that offer advertising and data aggregation across TV brands will now have fewer brands to sell on. 4. Fewer consumer TV brands in general. 5. Walmart can adopt a loss lead model, they don't need to actually make money on the TV, they can make it up in 2-3 other places. Similar to AWS and Amazon.
- doublepg23 3y agoJust to be clear though, this will make the TVs cheaper for consumers?
- PolygonSheep 3y agoWas Onn ever a "real" brand? I had always assumed it was just a private label brand.
- lebean 3y agoWe've come a long way since fighting oil, metal, sugar and meat monopolies and cartels. Now we're worried about Walmart buying TV brands. Really puts the past century into perspective for me.