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5 years ago amazon launched an explicit software-backed system to stop "leaving money on the table", by raising prices in non-competitive products. Sire it's what HFTs do all the time, but it was a bream from amazon's tradition of being the lowest price for everything and making money in volume (or deferring profitability)



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