Amazon says that it is seeing a nationwide surge in complaints about price gouging and is calling on Congress to pass laws to protect consumers from sellers trying to take advantage of the Covid-19 crisis. “Whenever the demand for basic necessities increases, there are bad actors who try to exploit circumstances by marking up goods in a way that goes far beyond the laws of supply and demand,”...
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