4 Ways Amazon’s Ruthless Practices Are Crushing Local Economies

Even by the anything-goes ethical code of the corporate jungle, Amazon.com's alpha male Jeff Bezos is considered a ruthless predator by businesses that deal with him. As overlord of Amazon, by far the largest online retailer in the U.S. (with more sales than the next nine U.S. online retailers combined), Bezos has the monopoly power to stalk, weaken and even kill off retail competitors, going after such giants as Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart, and draining the lifeblood from hundreds of smaller Main Street shops.