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I don't think this distinction actually justifies treating Amazon in a dramatically different way than Walmart. I agree that Amazon and Walmart have different strategies for managing inventory, in house branding and product placement. Walmart also operates an in house clone of Amazon in the form of their online store.

Why exactly is Amazon so much worse?



Walmart.com has the same problems as Amazon's Marketplace because they simply copied a lot of Amazon's worst practices.

But Amazon's Marketplace is 100x the size of Walmart.com. Generally, with antitrust you start with the biggest fish and work your way down as needed.

(Walmart Retail, as discussed elsewhere, isn't comparable to Amazon.com for many reasons.)




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