15-10-2021, 08:08 AM
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14 Oct 2021 05:09PM
(Updated: 15 Oct 2021 03:57AM)
NEW DELHI: US Senator Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Amazon.com and Indian retailers demanded a government probe of the company after a Reuters investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India.
The Reuters report reviewing thousands of internal Amazon documents, found that the US company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own private brands in India, one of the company’s largest growth markets.
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A group representing millions of India's brick-and-mortar retailers said on Thursday the country's government must launch an investigation into Amazon.
"Amazon is causing a great disadvantage to the small manufacturers. They are eating the cake that is not meant for them," Praveen Khandelwal of the Confederation of All India Traders told Reuters. The group says it represents 80 million retail stores in the country.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business...ry-2244161
14 Oct 2021 05:09PM
(Updated: 15 Oct 2021 03:57AM)
NEW DELHI: US Senator Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Amazon.com and Indian retailers demanded a government probe of the company after a Reuters investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India.
The Reuters report reviewing thousands of internal Amazon documents, found that the US company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own private brands in India, one of the company’s largest growth markets.
......
A group representing millions of India's brick-and-mortar retailers said on Thursday the country's government must launch an investigation into Amazon.
"Amazon is causing a great disadvantage to the small manufacturers. They are eating the cake that is not meant for them," Praveen Khandelwal of the Confederation of All India Traders told Reuters. The group says it represents 80 million retail stores in the country.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business...ry-2244161