SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Newly unredacted court documents show Amazon forced competing retailers, including Target, Walmart and Home Depot, to artificially increase the prices of everyday goods, California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed in a Monday announcement.
The new evidence — detailed in a largely unredacted motion for preliminary injunction filed as part of a 2022 antitrust case against Amazon — includes several examples of Amazon demanding vendors “fix” or “raise” product prices on other retailers’ websites. If the vendors did not comply, they reportedly faced consequences ranging from advertising and promotion restrictions to the removal of their products from Amazon.
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