Aerial View of Amazon’s Campus image : Amazon

Austrian retailers have filed a complaint with the country’s Federal Competition Authority (BWB) against Amazon over its double role as both an online retailer and marketplace. The key focus for the complaint is Amazon selling its own products as well as that of others on its platform of whose information they can have easy access to.

“Amazon can in theory see the prices of the listed retailers (on its platform), undercut their prices and in the long run attract all that business,” the Retail Association said in its complaint noting that 93% of Austrian online shoppers have made a purchase on Amazon at least once.

Inside one of the three spherical conservatories on Amazon’s Seattle Campus, This glass dome is covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panels and serve as an employee workspace and lounge. image : Amazon

Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported that it was in possession of documents indicating that the BWB would open an investigation into the company. The European Commission and Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (its competition authority) are also looking into Amazon’s role in the market.

“We have received a complaint. We are examining it,” a spokeswoman for Austria’s Federal Competition Authority (BWB) said on Monday confirming a statement by the Austrian Retail Association.

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