[kenmcg]

With all the businesses going under because of Amazon, one wonders why the feds haven’t gone after Amazon as a monopoly.

[VTenigma]

33 posts and we finally got to a salient post. Subsidizing Amazon shipping via the post office is creating a monopoly and trashing retail across the USA. Allowing a monoculture to spring up very similar to the rise of Chinese manufacturing. We will look back on this shipping subsidy and rue the day it was allowed.

[Alberta's Child]

The Fed’s can’t just take action against a company that’s a “monopoly.” They can only do it if the company engages in illegal business practices. To the best of my knowledge, Amazon has done no such thing.

And keep in mind that anti-trust law is aimed at protecting the CONSUMER, not competing businesses. If Amazon is cheaper than its competitors, then the Feds would have a hard time demonstrating that the consumer has been harmed in any way.