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“by focusing on the store, Amazon”
This just goes to show how confused lawmakers are about how eCommerce really works. Amazon is NOT a store. It is a MALL where individual stores sell their wares.
Amazon is not a store? That’s the most ignorant statement I have heard. Amazon is as much a store as every other seller on their platform. Amazon sells items, amazon collects the payment and customer Information for every other store on their platform also. I don’t know of any mall that collects the payment and customer information, dictates return policy, dictates refunds, takes a percentage of every sale, or collects sales tax on behalf of the shops within it.