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California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured court approval to make previously redacted evidence in the Amazon price-fixing lawsuit publicly available. The unredacted filing names Walmart, Target, Chewy, Best Buy, and Home Depot as participants in coordinated price-fixing arrangements with Amazon.
“California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured court approval to make previously redacted evidence in the Amazon price-fixing lawsuit publicly available. The unredacted filing names Walmart, Target, Chewy, Best Buy, and Home Depot as participants in coordinated price-fixing arrangements with Amazon.”
Amazon and its legal team spent months arguing that the evidence in California's price-fixing lawsuit against the company should remain sealed. In April 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured a court order unredacting the key filing. The document now names the other retailers who participated in the coordinated pricing arrangements.
The California AG's complaint alleges that Amazon enforced a "most favored nation" pricing structure that prevented third-party sellers from offering lower prices on competing platforms. When sellers tried to discount on Walmart, Chewy, eBay, or Google Shopping, Amazon's algorithm suppressed their listings, buried them in search results, or removed their buy-box eligibility. The unredacted filing shows the specific retailers whose pricing data Amazon monitored and the mechanisms used to enforce price parity.
The unredacted evidence names Walmart, Target, Chewy, Best Buy, and Home Depot. The allegation is not that those companies conspired with Amazon in the traditional sense — it is that Amazon's pricing enforcement created a system in which coordinated price floors emerged across major retail platforms, harming consumers who assumed they were comparison shopping in a competitive market.
Amazon argued the redacted material contained trade secrets. The court disagreed. Trade secrets protections are not available to conceal antitrust evidence. The unredacted filing establishes the factual record that will determine whether the price-fixing case survives to trial.
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