13-05-2019 15:00 via theverge.com

How low prices could make for an antitrust case against Amazon

In the late 2000s, diapers.com and its parent company Quidsi had built a limited but successful e-commerce business — until Jeff Bezos called them in for a meeting. As reported in Brad Stone’s 2013 book, The Everything Store, Bezos tried to by the company — and when they refused, began rapidly dropping Amazon’s diaper prices, including under a newly launched Amazon Mom product.The new venture was a disaster for diapers.com. As Quidsi saw it, the only way to sustain those
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