Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First
I don’t see what’s wrong with this.<p>Many retailers reserve some of their best shelves paces for their private label products, both as a form of differentiation and to extract higher margins.<p>You could argue that Amazon is unique in that it is large and potentially has a monopoly over eCommerce, but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end.<p>Most amazon basic products are commodities, and prices gets lower because of economies of scale. Should amazon jack up the price, consumers will just switch to another whitelabel&#x2F;run of the mill variant from another seller.<p>It will be problematic if amazon dumps on the market and drives theirs party sellers out of existence, but I don’t think that is the case here.