Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checking

Amazon’s long been a go-to for people to online price compare while shopping at brick-and-mortars. Now, a new patent granted to the company could prevent people from doing just that inside Amazon’s own stores. The patent, titled “Physical Store Online Shopping Control,” details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms that happen on its in-store Wi-Fi, then act upon them in various ways.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/15/15812986/amazon-patent-online-price-checking?source=Snapzu