Amazon’s Growing Presence as a Retail Monopsonist/Monopolist is

Squeezing Vendors for Cash to Funnel Towards its Bets on the Future
- Amazon Alexa,
OpenSearch, Amazon
$ Studio, Health
$$ Navigator, etc.

27% Gross Margin on

vendor-sourced goods -Amazon Retail,
Amazon Web
Services, etc.

Price Matching Costs

• Suppliers are pressured to sell to Amazon at the lowest possible cost or
face blacklisting from the online retail giant.

Warehousing Costs
• Amazon is the largest provider of fulfillment and logistics services in the
world. They control the brunt of the pipeline to consumers.

Advertising Costs
• Advertisements and sponsored content raise the price to play for vendors
and is being continually driven up in a race to the top.