{"id":14751,"date":"2024-06-07T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/independent-uk-retailers-claim-1bn-damages-against-amazon\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:38:13","slug":"independent-uk-retailers-claim-1bn-damages-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/independent-uk-retailers-claim-1bn-damages-against-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent UK retailers claim \u00a31bn damages against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 35,000 sellers argue that online giant misuses their data to launch rival products that are sold more cheaply<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2024\/jun\/07\/uk-house-prices-stable-may-interest-rates-us-jobs-report-employment-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Independent UK retailers have launched the biggest ever retail class action with a \u00a31bn claim for damages against Amazon, which they allege has been pushing them out of its online marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>The claim, brought by about 35,000 sellers and headed by the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), asserts that between October 2015 and the present day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> used non-public data belonging to the retailers to inform the launch of its own rival products.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/independent-uk-retailers-claim-1bn-damages-against-amazon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/214e83a4abcb57ae072453dcdaacca605af404f1\/0_151_4624_2776\/master\/4624.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f37597f52a728a3ea1548a67fdb4eee6\" title=\"Independent UK retailers claim \u00a31bn damages against Amazon\" \/>About 35,000 sellers argue that online giant misuses their data to launch rival products that are sold more cheaply<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nIndependent UK retailers have launched the biggest ever retail class action with a \u00a31bn claim for damages against Amazon, which they allege has been pushing them out of its online marketplace.<br \/>\nThe claim, brought by about 35,000 sellers and headed by the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), asserts that between October 2015 and the present day, Amazon used non-public data belonging to the retailers to inform the launch of its own rival products. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 35,000 sellers argue that online giant misuses their data to launch rival products that are sold more cheaply Business live \u2013 latest updates Independent UK retailers have launched the biggest ever retail class action with a \u00a31bn claim for damages against Amazon, which they allege has been pushing them out of its online marketplace. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/independent-uk-retailers-claim-1bn-damages-against-amazon\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Independent UK retailers claim \u00a31bn damages against Amazon<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}