{"id":6862,"date":"2017-12-19T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2017-12-19T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:08:24","slug":"french-government-to-fine-amazon-e10m-over-supplier-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/french-government-to-fine-amazon-e10m-over-supplier-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"French government to fine Amazon\u00a0\u20ac10m over supplier abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?quality=100&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2F68d53c105eb6b9607c783b598819abd2%2F205962478%2Ffrance-ed.jpg&amp;client=cbc79c14efcebee57402&amp;signature=57abf6cc9580b6e5d264b90a25c454415ccd829e\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>[French] Economic Minister Bruno Le Maire has filed a complaint against Amazon for abusing its suppliers with one-sided contract clauses&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s seeking a record \u20ac10 million fine, &#8220;a strong and unprecedented action,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon anecdotally are quite the hard ass when dealing with their suppliers and marketplace sellers. The root of the fine&#8217;s cause isn&#8217;t the shocking part, it&#8217;s that a government body has stepped up to defend it&#8217;s businesses against the giant. A fact that I personally find extremely heartening.<\/p>\n<p>Viva la France!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/12\/18\/amazon-fine-france-10-million\/\">Amazon faces record fine from French fraud watchdog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[French] Economic Minister Bruno Le Maire has filed a complaint against Amazon for abusing its suppliers with one-sided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}