New small business coalition targets Amazon on antitrust Julie Jammot/AFP
An employee is alleging that Amazon SA has unfairly dismissed her. Photo for illustration of Amazon building in San Francisco: iStock Amazon argues that it empowered small and medium-sized businesses to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in sales last year.
A new coalition of small business groups on Tuesday launched a campaign for tougher US antitrust enforcement, specifically calling for the breakup of online commerce titan Amazon.
The Small Business Rising group includes the American Booksellers Association, National Grocers Association and a number of local and regional business organizations.
Amazon Targeted by New Small Business Coalition on Antitrust
The coalition said its goal is to stop tech monopolies, such as Amazon, from cornering the online market by breaking them up and regulating them. By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 7 April 2021 11:34 IST
The group said Amazon s stranglehold over online commerce is one of the top threats
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Amazon pushed back at the claims that it stifles competition
The group supported the conclusions of a recent US congressional report
A new coalition of small business groups on Tuesday launched a campaign for tougher US antitrust enforcement, specifically calling for the breakup of online commerce titan Amazon.
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The coalition website said its goal is to stop tech monopolies, such as Amazon, from cornering the online market by breaking them up and regulating them. Reuters pic
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WASHINGTON, April 7 A new coalition of small business groups yesterday launched a campaign for tougher US antitrust enforcement, specifically calling for the breakup of online commerce titan Amazon.
The Small Business Rising group includes the American Booksellers Association, National Grocers Association, and a number of local and regional business organisations.
The coalition website said its goal is to “stop tech monopolies, such as Amazon, from cornering the online market by breaking them up and regulating them.”
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7 Apr 2021
According to a recent report, merchant groups representing thousands of small businesses are forming a national coalition called “Small Business Rising” to campaign for stricter antitrust laws in an effort to force e-commerce giant Amazon to spin off some of its business lines and stop selling its own products in competition with other brands and sellers.
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Wall Street Journalreports that a number of merchants are forming a national coalition to campaign for stricter antitrust laws to force Amazon to spin off some of its business lines. The effort is being launched by trade groups representing smaller hardware stores, office suppliers, booksellers, grocers, and others on Tuesday.