INSIDE AMAZON'S SECRET OPERATION TO GATHER INTEL ON RIVALS

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Big River Services International, an operation that sells around $1 million a year of goods through e-commerce marketplaces, is an arm of Amazon that surreptitiously gathers intelligence on the tech giant's competitors, using its sales across multiple countries to obtain pricing data, logistics information and other details about rival e-commerce marketplaces, logistics operations, and payments services.