Jeff Bezos to visit India but small-business owners are not pleased
The Indian shopkeepers accuse Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart of handing out heavy discounts and giving preferential treatment to select sellers
14 January 2020 - 13:50
New Delhi — Big e-commerce firms should not offer steep discounts, must disclose discounting policies and ensure they do not drive brick-and-mortar rivals out of business, India's antitrust chief said as his commission launched a probe into Amazon.com and Walmart's Flipkart.
The remarks come ahead of a visit by Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos to India this week — one likely to marked by much tension with the country's small-business owners planning protests in 300 cities as they step up their campaign against what they see as unfair business practices...
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