• Amazon is both a direct retailer and a near indispensable platform for competing resellers.
• In that latter capacity, it sets the rules and it can tilt the game in its favor and extract most of the value and valuable data and information.
• That information allows it to start competing businesses by picking off its merchants’ best-selling products.
• It’s difficult to see how this can be stopped bar action by competition authorities.

Source: Amazon Is A Multi-Trillion-Dollar Monopoly Hidden In Plain Sight – Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) | Seeking Alpha