A ‘Grass-Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded By Amazon’s Biggest Rivals

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A purported grass-roots campaign to take down Amazon is funded by some of its biggest rivals: Walmart, Oracle and mall giant Simon Property Group

About 18 months ago a new nonprofit group called Free and Fair Markets Initiative launched a national campaign criticizing the business practices of one powerful company: Amazon.com Inc.

Free and Fair Markets accused Amazon of stifling competition and innovation, inhibiting consumer choice, gorging on government subsidies, endangering its warehouse workers and exposing consumer data to privacy breaches. It claimed to have grass-roots support from average citizens across the U.S, citing a labor union, a Boston management...

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