Watching Amazon: Pricing and Shipping A Tale of Two Relationships
b'Last week at a House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing on competition in the digital economy. You may have missed it because of that other hearing going on in Washington right now. During his testimony at the hearing, David Barnett, ceo of phone accessory maker PopSockets, accused Amazon of \\u201cbullying with a smile\\u201d, \\u201cstrong-arming\\u201d and failing to remove fake products. And as a result the company looked to other options to sell its goods, but as you will see in this ep of Watching Amazon, doing digital commerce outside of Amazon is, well, tough. Even when you have a known brand like PopSockets has built.\\n\\nAnd the relationships between Amazon and its shipping partners like FedEx and UPS are getting even more interesting as Amazon takes on more of its own shipping needs to get their customers stuff to them faster and faster. But one area that Amazon has not disrupted is when its partners ship them products that end up getting sold on the platform. UPS handles virtually all of that. But will Amazon take a swipe at that too?'