<story><title>Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/five-us-lawmakers-accuse-amazon-possibly-lying-congress-following-reuters-report-2021-10-18/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>What I don’t get it’s why they care now when this is an old retail strategy. Older than Amazon itself.
Target is the epitome of pushing you white label brands down your throat from the minute you step into own of their stores. And this is essentially what every retailer does.&lt;p&gt;They all  check what sells the most, then they create their own brands, and then they promote and prioritize those brands over their shelved vendors.&lt;p&gt;Show me one retailer that doesn’t do this.&lt;p&gt;This strategy is the very reason why the direct to consumer model exists. Brands realized that they couldn’t compete fairly through product aggregators and their real survival and path to success was to do what retailers were already doing: to verticalize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaycities</author><text>Can you really not distinguish Amazon, it’s market position, and their acts from brick and mortar retailers that carry private label items?&lt;p&gt;Even if you can’t distinguish Amazon’s conduct and a grocery store selling private label cereals side by side, the article really isn’t about that anyway but the fact that Amazon went before congress and was asked about prioritizing their private label products in search results over other sellers and Amazon representative lied under oath by denying they do that.  I’m not aware of Target going before Congress and lying under oath about selling private label products, one would think if Amazon’s conduct was on the up and up they wouldn’t lie under oath to cover it up.</text></comment>
<story><title>Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/five-us-lawmakers-accuse-amazon-possibly-lying-congress-following-reuters-report-2021-10-18/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>What I don’t get it’s why they care now when this is an old retail strategy. Older than Amazon itself.
Target is the epitome of pushing you white label brands down your throat from the minute you step into own of their stores. And this is essentially what every retailer does.&lt;p&gt;They all  check what sells the most, then they create their own brands, and then they promote and prioritize those brands over their shelved vendors.&lt;p&gt;Show me one retailer that doesn’t do this.&lt;p&gt;This strategy is the very reason why the direct to consumer model exists. Brands realized that they couldn’t compete fairly through product aggregators and their real survival and path to success was to do what retailers were already doing: to verticalize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philistine</author><text>The problem is not the practice itself; it&amp;#x27;s that Amazon representatives told Congress they did not do it.&lt;p&gt;They lied, that&amp;#x27;s the problem. If they had said yes, we do indeed analyze what is happening in our marketplace to decide which products to launch, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t have gotten this letter.</text></comment>