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malfistyesterday at 1:43 PM1 replyview on HN

They can't do whatever they want, we live in a regulated economy for precisely this reason. Otherwise you get exactly what is happening here, a company using it's near monopoly power to raise prices on everyone to enrich a few


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twoodfintoday at 2:00 AM

In what sense does Amazon have “near monopoly power”?

Elsewhere in this thread we find shock that American households spend a few thousand dollars on average between Whole Foods and Amazon.com.

I assure you that’s a small fraction of household spending on the goods Amazon sells.