{"id":76356,"date":"2026-07-21T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/we-were-at-their-mercy-inside-the-amazon-tactics-that-hiked-prices-across-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:55:10","slug":"we-were-at-their-mercy-inside-the-amazon-tactics-that-hiked-prices-across-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/we-were-at-their-mercy-inside-the-amazon-tactics-that-hiked-prices-across-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were at their mercy\u2019: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon\u2019s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cmodern leather\u201d table lamp, listed online at Walmart, shot up from $24.99 to $39.<\/p>\n<p> The price of an air fryer on a retail site called Newegg went from $84.99 to $149.99.<\/p>\n<p>An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jul\/21\/amazon-tactics-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon\u2019s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers A \u201cmodern leather\u201d table lamp, listed online at Walmart, shot up from $24.99 to $39. The price of an air &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018We were at their mercy\u2019: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/we-were-at-their-mercy-inside-the-amazon-tactics-that-hiked-prices-across-the-internet\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018We were at their mercy\u2019: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}