He can't do much about Bezos, personally, in part because the Amazon founder is surrounded by an impenetrable wall of money that protects him from just about anything Trump can throw at him.
Claiming that Amazon doesn't pay sales taxes won't work because Amazon does, at least on its own merchandise.
The Commission says the postal service is charging Amazon the same rate as it charges others bulk customers, and if it can wring more out of Amazon in the next round of negotiations, so be it.
About 10 percent of all retail business is done online, and best estimates are that Amazon accounts for about half of that, or about 5 percent of all retail sales, with sales of third-party merchandise accounting for more than half of that 5 percent.
Yes, Amazon has cut the retail price of books and music.
The crippling of Amazon would be a high price to pay for damaging Jeff Bezos, and by extension the Washington Post.
Allowing Amazon to continue many of its present policies without examination-acquisitions, pre-announcements to make it difficult for entrants to raise capital, pricing that might be predatory- might damage competition.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-trump-has-wrongand-rightabout-amazon/article/2012162
Claiming that Amazon doesn't pay sales taxes won't work because Amazon does, at least on its own merchandise.
The Commission says the postal service is charging Amazon the same rate as it charges others bulk customers, and if it can wring more out of Amazon in the next round of negotiations, so be it.
About 10 percent of all retail business is done online, and best estimates are that Amazon accounts for about half of that, or about 5 percent of all retail sales, with sales of third-party merchandise accounting for more than half of that 5 percent.
Yes, Amazon has cut the retail price of books and music.
The crippling of Amazon would be a high price to pay for damaging Jeff Bezos, and by extension the Washington Post.
Allowing Amazon to continue many of its present policies without examination-acquisitions, pre-announcements to make it difficult for entrants to raise capital, pricing that might be predatory- might damage competition.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-trump-has-wrongand-rightabout-amazon/article/2012162
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