Michael Howard quickly moves his cart through rows of shelving at the Amazon Prime Now warehouse in Seattle in 2019. A new coalition of small business organizations is urging policymakers to break up Amazon.com Inc. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times/TNS)
Amazon should be broken up, small merchant coalition says
A new coalition of small business organizations is urging policymakers to break up Amazon.com Inc.
Small Business Rising, which represents grocers, hardware stores, pharmacies and bookstores, on Tuesday laid out a set of goals aimed at reinvigorating U.S. antitrust enforcement, including a call to separate Amazon’s own retail business from the marketplace that hosts third-party sellers.