Originally Posted by
Sluggo_63
But Amazon abhors competition. They want it all.
One of the biggest complaints of small business owners who use Amazon Marketplace as their online store is that when one of their items starts selling well, boom, the next week the exact same item is being sold with a "made by Amazon" label. The Amazon item will get top billing and the "Amazon recommends" tag and all of a sudden, your good selling product is no more.
Once small businesses realize that the can move over to Wal-Mart marketplace online (as it matures) and Wal-Mart has no desire to start producing items you're going to see more and more businesses leaving Amazon and their extremely predatory business practices.
It wasn't all that long ago that expressions such as "extremely predatory" were being used to describe Wal-Mart and it's impact on main street America. Now they are being touted as the alternative that will SAVE those same small businesses from Amazon. Not disagreeing with you, just remembering all the protests and campaigns under the banner "NO WAL-MART IN OUR TOWN!!".