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by resoluteteeth 990 days ago
> The agreement often has a stipulation that the same product can never be cheaper elsewhere which is sometimes easy as WalMart gets specific SKUs

Does the trick of creating different SKUs work for amazon though? If not, it seems like what they're doing might be worse. Since according to the article they're now enforcing the rule against having lower prices elsewhere through software, depending on how it's implemented it could end up having a much broader effect.