A consumer watchdog released a report on Sept 10 accusing the world’s largest online retailer of price gouging. — Reuters
Amazon.com Inc charged inflated prices for hand sanitiser, disposable gloves and other essentials months after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a consumer watchdog said in a report accusing the world’s largest online retailer of price gouging.
The report, released on Sept 10 by Public Citizen, examines roughly two dozen products on Amazon’s site. Relying on its own observations and data from price-tracking sites, the nonprofit public interest group documented price increases of as much as 1,000% when compared with pre-pandemic levels or prices at other large retailers.
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