The paw prints Amazon leaves on the world.
The surveillance tools used in their warehouses and delivery was not transparent enough for the regulators. The fine of €2401 has mostly a symbolic nature, but it is the first fine of the new “rider law” from 2022 that regulates platform workers such a delivery drivers. The total amount of fines for labour violations found in the end of 2024 might be around €100k by estimation of the union CCOO.
The German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) — Germany's national competition regulatory agency — has published preliminary results of its investigation against Amazon. In the focus of the investigation has been the Amazon Marketplace. In its online stores, Amazon itself (“Amazon Retail”) and other sellers (“amazon.de Marketplace”) compete. While this is already confusing for consumers, the antitrust office sees a conflict of interest and an abuse of market power by Amazon. The antirust body complains Amazon ranks sellers with “high prices” invisible, and does not even communicate what is considered a “high price” transparently. Amazon ironically calls its practices the “Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy”.
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