About half of Amazon sales come from third-party vendors as part of the company's online 'marketplace'. — AFP Relaxnews
Amazon pledged on March 5 to take steps to fight price gouging after a US senator complained of "unjustifiably high prices" on hand sanitisers and surgical masks to protect against coronavirus infections.
The US retail giant responded to a letter from Senator Ed Markey, who wrote that Amazon appeared to be profiting from panic buying related to the epidemic.
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