Vestager's team has also opened a second antitrust investigation to focus on how Amazon selects sellers to feature in its 'buy box,' a prominent display that 'generates the vast majority of all sales,' the commission said. Technology Google Lawsuit Marks End Of Washington's Love Affair With Big Tech The commission's investigation found Amazon used 'very granular, real-time' data about listings and sales by other merchants on its platform to help decide what new products to launch, what prices to set, how many items to stock and which suppliers to use, said EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager. is that the use of non-public marketplace seller data allows Amazon to avoid the normal risks of retail competition and to leverage its dominance in the market,' the European Commission, the EU's top antitrust enforcer, said on Tuesday in the so-called statement of objections. These are the first formal charges against the tech and retail giant in a spate of antitrust investigations around the world. Amazon has long argued that it does not use seller-specific data to directly compete with its own products and has generally rejected accusations of anti-competitive behavior.Įuropean Union officials are accusing Amazon of breaking EU competition rules by exploiting the data the company collects from other sellers on its platform for its own benefit.

Amazon gets antitrust scrutiny on data