A consumer advocacy group is raising concerns about price gouging at the e-commerce company, Amazon.
A new report compared the cost of ten food, health, and cleaning products found on Amazon.com last month with prices charged by other major retailers for the same items.
If you are shopping on Amazon for paper towels, rice, or other products that rapidly sold out during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, you may have been able to find them cheaper elsewhere, according to the report.
Items on Amazon were often two to 14 times more expensive than the identical products sold by Target, Walmart, and others, the U.S. PIRG Education Fund found.
Clorox disinfectant wipes, for example, which sold on Amazon for $37.95, sold for $5.00 at other online retailers, while a thermometer available at Amazon for $29.99 cost $10 elsewhere, according to PIRG. A pack of six Bounty Doubles Select-A-Size rolls on Amazon cost $58.80 in August, while the exact same Bounty product on Walmart’s website sold for $9.98, and $11.99 online at Kroger, according to the findings.
