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because amazon owns the marketplace and has access enormous information on what sells well and can use for its own benefits. This creates unfair competition.



Walmart owns Walmart stores and has enormous information on what sells well and can use for its own benefits


Walmart doesn't know where I live/lived, what I've purchased for the past decade, what I might be mildly interested in (searched for at one point), what movies I watch, what books I read, etc, etc.

Walmart cannot cater it's experience to what it thinks I might buy. Amazon can.

It's just not the same. There is a huge asymmetry of information (from both suppliers and customers) that makes Amazons overall practice feel much more predatory.

Oh, and Amazon is 50% of all online retail. Walmart is something like 10% of all brick and mortar retail.




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