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Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home - ENOUGH CLOUD JUNK!

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 Time to unplug... Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home - ENOUGH CLOUD JUNK! Source: Louis Rossman

" Amazon, 'Economic Terrorism' and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods" by Colin Todhunter

Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods Colin Todhunter   Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up Jet.com. This was followed in 2018 with a US$16 billion take-over of India’s largest online retail platform, Flipkart. Today, Walmart and Amazon control almost two thirds of India’s digital retail sector. Amazon and Walmart have a record of using predatory pricing, deep discounts and other unfair business practices to attract customers to their online platforms. A couple of years ago, those two companies generated sales of over US$3 billion in just six days during Diwali. India’s small retailers reacted by calling for a boycott of online shopping. If you want to know the eventual fate of India’s local markets and small retailers