• vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    That’s for the courts to decide, “kiddo”.

    They did in the 1980s with walmart, kiddo.

    Nice exercise of brand loyalty, but irrelevant in this scenario.

    Incorrect, this is an ‘exercise’ of explaining a very basic fact of capitalism that has been happening longer than the word ‘capitalism’ has existed. This policy is the default for all stores on Earth.

    • mabeledo@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      You are very clearly out of your depth here, and very much wrong, so maybe drop the patronizing tone a little bit.

      They did in the 1980s with walmart, kiddo.

      Unless you can quote the exact precedent, I’m going to take the Sherman Antitrust Act over whatever you say.

      Incorrect, this is an ‘exercise’ of explaining a very basic fact of capitalism that has been happening longer than the word ‘capitalism’ has existed. This policy is the default for all stores on Earth.

      Marketplaces can set the prices of the items sold at their locations. They cannot set the prices of items outside of them. Doing so is price fixing, plain and simple.