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Don’t Blame Amazon for Cleaning Up in Lockdown
Traditional retailers have handed the online behemoth lots of advantages as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the world.
An Amazon.com delivery in London’s Downing Street.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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Amazon.com Inc. has come under pressure in a locked-down Europe for doing what it does best: selling consumers everything they need.
An appeals court in France on Friday said the U.S. online retailing giant must limit its range to essential items: food, health products and computer equipment. In Germany, competition authorities are monitoring the company after complaints from retailers. It has endured strikes over working conditions in Italy. The grievances differ in each country, and Amazon is contesting them.