YSK not to shop at w*lmart....

This is party much every retailer out there, this is not news.

Amazon and eBay are obvious, but Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, Newegg, Target, Lowes, etc. They've all done it to expand their online presence. You have options to filter by company name or "sold and ship by" to cut out possibly bad sellers but you'd not know to check unless you've had a bad experience returning product.

Someone should sell plates with Kirby Inflation fetish art on it

I take it you haven't been to my etsy page.

All of these marketplaces are like that now. Amazon, Target, Walmart, Wayfair, etc.

I feel like the ones doing the food products are always counting on someone being desperate for a particular item. The prices are often crazy high.

Amazon has also been caught mixing inventory between sellers in the past. Wouldn't surprise me if that's extremely common with others

Isn't that what a marketplace means? Otherwise it's an online shop?

Like all marketplaces.

It's what Amazon, Walmart, etc want it to mean. They want the profits, but none of the responsibility that comes with selling goods. So they did some legal linguistic gymnastics and thus according to them, stuff that is bought in the Amazon store, with a % markup by Amazon, with payment to Amazon, and with shipping by Amazon, is somehow not Amazon's responsibility.

The USA government had gone after the large platforms for selling defective/dangerous goods, but that was in 2024 under Biden, so I expect that investigation to be dead by now. The EU is still going ahead though: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/eu-make-temu-shein-amazon-liable-unsafe-goods-ft-reports-2025-02-01/