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This is about bookingcom but it shows how a big platform operates:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/07/thousands-o...

“Over 10,000 hotels have already joined the pan-European initiative to claim compensation for financial losses caused by Booking.com’s use of illegal ‘best price’ (parity) clauses,” Hotrec said in a statement.

It alleges that the “best price” pledge on Booking.com was extracted from hotels under huge pressure not to offer rooms at lower prices on other platforms, including their own websites.


Food delivery services do exactly the same.


How is this relevant to the article?




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