Amazon.com Inc was on Tuesday hit with an antitrust suit from the US capital city Washington, which said the tech giant abuses its dominant position in online retail sales, harming consumers.
The suit filed by the office of District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine says that Amazon’s control of 50 to 70 percent of US e-commerce sales allegedly results in higher consumer prices.
“Amazon’s online retail sales platform benefits from, and is protected by, Amazon’s anticompetitive business practices,” the suit filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court says. “Far from enabling consumers to obtain the best products at the lowest