A 'Grass-Roots' Campaign to Take Down Amazon, Funded By Its Rivals
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P.M. Edition for September 20th: Eighteen months ago, a non-profit group called Free and Fair Markets Initiative launched a national campaign criticizing Amazon's business practices. They said they had grass-roots supporters. But what the group didn't say was that it was being funded by some of Amazon's biggest corporate rivals. And the grassroots claimed? That wasn't what it appeared to be either. The Wall Street Journal's James Grimaldi explains. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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