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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

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Post by sfmike »

2h wrote: post #38
smugma wrote: post #35

Whole Foods started charging $9.99 for orders a year or so ago. I still sometimes order from them but try and avoid it. I sometimes use Fresh, sometimes do WF in the store (pickup or just going to the store), and also shop locally more.

> WF in the store AKA shopping. this service is useful, but as others have said it was never sustainable. would you do someones shopping for $10?

Wouldn't use this as a frame. You wouldn't buy an entire server and add a static ip and host someone's site on shared hosting for 1.99 a month. Things at scale are priced much differently. it's 10 to deliver because 5 deliveries in an hour is 50 an hour with 20 30 to the person and 20 30 to whole foods. This is why businesses work because the 10 is great value for you and the business keeps multiples of that so also profitable.

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Post by Scoundreller »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #27
donohoe wrote: post #17

Seriously? As the cost of Prime goes up the more I wonder why I use it... Once I'm not using Prime, my reliance on Amazon for free shipping evaporates and then I no longer am using Amazon exclusively for general purchases.

I turned it off last year and barely noticed. Free shipping if over $25 of amazon packages. They generally arrive “early” every time if you’re in a city because the stuff is already in the local warehouse and the delivery truck is already headed your way and artificial delays might not be a great look

Yeah, they don’t want to hold your orders in a warehouse anyway. I think it only makes a difference around Christmas time tbh.

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Post by sfmike »

balozi wrote: post #34

There is something un-natural about a prime delivery for a $5.99 order. There is no way any of this sh* is sustainable.

10 orders in a neighborhood in 30 minutes is like 60 usd. 25 to driver. 35 for driver and truck costs. over 8 hour shift that's like 250 to amazon. Number's check out as sustainable. and that's after fees from FBA seller, which on high orders could be 10-50 or more per order, any shipping upsells to customer, and prime fees from customer. Very sustainable and profitable.

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Post by sfmike »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #20
User23 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s what alibaba is for: you can count on the items being fakes/knockoffs.

aliexpress sellers actually answer messages, customise orders, i had great service and even a refund once!

agreed, had great service on aliexpress, got a Dear sir ma'am it's our pleasure to refund you and keep the item please order from us again have a great day! Got a chinese only xiaomi device once and they threw in free accessories because i asked to customize and add to price and they just gifted it and threw it into the shipping box.

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Post by sirius87 »

donohoe wrote: post #17

Seriously? As the cost of Prime goes up the more I wonder why I use it... Once I'm not using Prime, my reliance on Amazon for free shipping evaporates and then I no longer am using Amazon exclusively for general purchases.

Same experience here in India. I didn't renew my Prime membership last month and soon found myself making all my purchases on Flipkart (Walmart) and actually found it to be better overall.

Now Amazon India's supposedly experimenting with a $12 (999 Indian rupees) "Prime Lite" plan, and even that is unappealing to me [1].

For entertainment, Amazon Prime in India is a weird concoction of content and placeholders for other streaming services that you have to pay extra for. They intend to be some sort of single-stop gateway to multiple streaming services, but end up being a total mess.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/14/amazon-prime-lite-membersh...

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Post by thinking4real »

neilv wrote: post #28

Drat. I dislike getting groceries delivered (it seems lazy of me, it's a headache, they occasionally mess up, and it's much more expensive than walking to a nearby store), but... I've about decided to go back to the grocery delivery I was getting for most of the last 3 years. I'm seeing way too many people in grocery stores just coughing out a phlegmy cough, without even trying to cover -- like they're oblivious to t…

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