Amazon Walks Line as Prices Keep Antitrust Cops at Bay
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Amazon.com Inc.’s treatment of customers means more to U.S. antitrust authorities than how the largest Web retailer pressures publishers and movie studios.
Typically it’s seen as a good thing for a retailer to pressure suppliers to trim prices as that can lead to better deals for shoppers, David Balto, a former policy director at the Federal Trade Commission, said in an interview.