Amazon and fought them on sales tax issues eapecially. But the difference is having an amazon presence doesn’t threaten local companies. Because they aren’t selling out of their local physical locations(for the most part) they are fighting over either warehouses or corporate office which have higher paying jobs than retail and don’t compete with other local companies.

Amazon is going to compete with local businesses the same whether they have a local warehouse or not so you might as well get he benefit of the jobs