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Amazon’s logistics arm, built around its Fulfilment By Amazon (FBA) product, is in danger of being cut off from its online marketplace.

Legislation by the US government that could pave the way for such a move advanced in Congress last week, when the House Judiciary Committee voted narrowly in favour of the Ending Platform Monopolies Act.

The bill, co-sponsored by representatives from both major parties, aims to “eliminate the ability of dominant platforms to leverage their control across multiple business lines to self-preference ...

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  • Richard Zablocki

    June 28, 2021 at 6:05 pm

    No doubt that Amazon will eventually go head to head with UPS but their real concern should be the now sleeping threat for significant rate increases from USPS. That looked to be a sure thing during the Trump administration and could resurge should the GOP dominate the U.S. political scene in 2022 and 2024.