Comment by blackeyeblitzar

I’ve heard that Walmart and Amazon also use various unethical means to scrape the websites of competitors to get pricing information and adjust their own items’ pricing accordingly. This feels a lot like the algorithmic price fixing that is now being scrutinized in the rental industry. I wonder if more attention should be paid to how these companies compete with each other, leaving aside the numerous other controversies around how they treat sellers, how they abuse sales data of manufacturers to compete with them with house brands, and their plain market power from size.