UK’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Amazon.com on whether or not the US tech large was hurting competitors by giving its personal sellers an unfair benefit over third-party sellers on {the marketplace}.
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stated it opened an investigation on Tuesday on issues Amazon’s practices affecting sellers on its home market could also be anti-competitive and will end in a worse deal for patrons.
The investigation follows a present European Commission probe taking a look at related issues however which doesn’t cowl points affecting the UK following Brexit.
The British regulator stated its investigation would deal with three fundamental areas, together with how the Seattle-based firm collects and makes use of third-party vendor knowledge and the way it units the eligibility standards for promoting beneath the Prime label.
Amazon.com didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark exterior common enterprise hours.
© Thomson Reuters 2022
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