Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150
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Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150
#2Naturally. If it isn't profitable enough, charge more. Basic economics.
Any prior promises can be complete ignored and invalidated.
Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150
#3This is a recurring pattern of tech companies: offer a service at a loss, and then after capturing the market, raise prices or penalize for inactivity. People complain about Facebook harvesting user info, but in fakebook's defense, it is still $0 to use without any obvious degradation of the service or penalties for inactivity (people who use Yahoo , Hotmail, Dropbox, etc. sure learned how much it can suck having all your stuff purged cuz you fail to login). Same for Instagram, twitter, etc.. You are better off storing your files on facebook than dropbox (or twitter by converting the data to an image).
Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150
#4That's unfortunate; we order their pre-made Amazon Kitchen meals[1] but not $150 worth. I already pay the $10 delivey fee for Whole Foods when I need to get flowers.
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#5At this point Prime seems to be targeting families only.
As a single person I'm not sure of the value I'm getting with all the things I don't want (TV shows etc) and the high minimums ($150 for groceries is too much for one).
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Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150
#7This is a recurring pattern of tech companies: offer a service at a loss, and then after capturing the market, raise prices or penalize for inactivity. People complain about Facebook harvesting user info, but in fakebook's defense, it is still $0 to use without any obvious degradation of the service or penalties for inactivity (people who use Yahoo , Hotmail, Dropbox, etc. sure learned how much it can suck having all…
> in fakebook's defense, it is still $0 to use without any obvious degradation of the service
This is untrue; service has degraded significantly. Pretty much every change made to the feed of your friends' activity has made it worse.
Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150
#8At this point Prime seems to be targeting families only. As a single person I'm not sure of the value I'm getting with all the things I don't want (TV shows etc) and the high minimums ($150 for groceries is too much for one).
Ditto. Pretty rare that I buy anything under $25 now so I’d get free shipping anyway. Why even Prime at this point?
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#9At this point Prime seems to be targeting families only. As a single person I'm not sure of the value I'm getting with all the things I don't want (TV shows etc) and the high minimums ($150 for groceries is too much for one).
I canceled my Prime subscription last year after the headline benefit, two-day shipping, had turned into "well, we'll try for two-day shipping, but we achieve it 0% of the time, and there's no recourse".
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#10Not sure how they think they’ll compete with instacart at those prices. It’s literally cheaper to use instacart/fresh direct even with the delivery fees