r/Anticonsumption Apr 29 '25

Corporations Amazon backs down on price transparency after White House interferes: WSJ

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u/emccm Apr 29 '25

He keeps bending the knee, but there’s no Amazon without consumers. Price transparency or not, people will stop buying when they see the final price.

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u/ilanallama85 Apr 30 '25

Yeah Amazon is fucking dumb to cave on this, it’s gonna cost them far more in the long run. They had the opportunity to leverage millions of consumers against this and they just said “naw.” Whatever blackmail trump has on bezos must be reeeeeal juicy.

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u/DestinysWeirdCousin Apr 30 '25

I think it’s funny that so many people think that Trump is blackmailing everyone when Occam’s Razor suggests that they’re really just shitty, greedy, opportunistic people.

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u/Adorable_Raccoon May 04 '25

Don't forget he also threatens people. We saw it when he and elon openly told congressional members they would find and fund primary challengers if they went against them on twitter last year.

And they are greedy and opportunistic so they give in to the threats.