How online retailers are handling the COVID-19 gold rush
Marketplace Tech
English - March 11, 2020 10:46 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: In a world of remote work, virtual reality is still pretty much MIA
Next Episode: #canceleverything = adios tech conferences. Now what?
Host Molly Wood speaks with Louise Matsakis, a reporter at Wired, about price gouging on e-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay. She says that these platforms need to respond to gouging just as social media platforms have to respond to misinformation about the public health crises. Amazon, she adds, has been making an effort to regulate the dramatic price increases that some sellers are applying to hand sanitizers and face masks that protect against COVID-19.