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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 thinking4real »

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.

You mean something being delivered from one part of a city to another in 1-2 days should cost, on average, with the economy of scales, significantly more than $5.99?

Being able to pick an optimal time, I can have my person delivered across the city for $20 or so. That’s with all sorts of liability and no “one delivery serves many” model to maximize profit

I think you’re overestimating the value of transporting a small, light box

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by reducesuffering »

Prime is practically useless, and probably a net-negative, if you don't care about their video offering. In the US it's a $15/month expense. Meanwhile, you still get free shipping for orders >$25, and needing to group them a bit makes you more selective in what you actually end up buying because you really need it. Rather, than willy nilly buying whatever pops into your head all the time. Then, even if you really need an item quickly within a couple days, there's always a free trial of prime waiting for you that you can then cancel.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by shitlord »

bushbaba wrote: post #25
cheriot wrote: post #15

Great outcome for Instacart and DoorDash. My Amazon Fresh deliveries will be less frequent and heavier items I don't want to carry.

And great for Walmart who’s not charging for deliveries above 35$ with Walmart plus.

That's basically what Amazon Fresh was doing back in 2017. I think the threshold was either 35 or 40 dollars.

Amazon has gotten way worse since then.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by bb88 »

larrymyers wrote: post #19
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 did not renew my Prime membership this year after Amazon raised the annual price again. We have too many streaming services in our house as it is, and we don't order enough from Amazon to take advantage of the free shipping. I've also found Amazon's prices getting less competitive, especially for things you'd usually buy at placed like Target (drive up pickup is amazing). Combined with the endless search results th…

Unfortunately there's a lot of niche stuff on Amazon that Target won't have -- 3d printing filament e.g. And there aren't that many 3D printing stores in town here. In fact there are none.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by princevegeta89 »

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.

Time for Walmart+ maybe? They seem to be providing a lot of extra benefits like Prime as well, with the added advantage of lower prices and heavily stocked supercenters everywhere around me.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by princevegeta89 »

larrymyers wrote: post #19
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 did not renew my Prime membership this year after Amazon raised the annual price again. We have too many streaming services in our house as it is, and we don't order enough from Amazon to take advantage of the free shipping. I've also found Amazon's prices getting less competitive, especially for things you'd usually buy at placed like Target (drive up pickup is amazing). Combined with the endless search results th…

+1 the counterfeit items on Amazon are getting out of control. It's so stupid that there are so many millions of cheap knockoff products in any category with an overflowing number of fake 5-star reviews.

I've been using Fakespot but at the same time I have always wondered wtf Amazon is doing about it at all.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by actually_a_dog »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #66
larrymyers wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not renew my Prime membership this year after Amazon raised the annual price again. We have too many streaming services in our house as it is, and we don't order enough from Amazon to take advantage of the free shipping. I've also found Amazon's prices getting less competitive, especially for things you'd usually buy at placed like Target (drive up pickup is amazing). Combined with the endless search results th…

+1 the counterfeit items on Amazon are getting out of control. It's so stupid that there are so many millions of cheap knockoff products in any category with an overflowing number of fake 5-star reviews. I've been using Fakespot but at the same time I have always wondered wtf Amazon is doing about it at all.

I'm not doubting that there are a shit ton of counterfeits on Amazon, but I am wondering how I've managed to avoid them so well. I have literally never received something from Amazon that I thought even had the possibility of being fake.

Could it have to do with the specific categories I shop in? Maybe the stuff I buy from Amazon just isn't profitable enough for the bad guys to bother counterfeiting?

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by dirtyid »

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.

On the other hand:

https://twitter.com/pretentiouswhat/status/16192278747494850...

>I just placed a grocery order from an Aldi 2km away on Meituan and it arrived in ELEVEN MINUTES. The drive itself takes like 8 minutes. That means the driver was already in the store, and the staff took 3 minutes to assemble my order? Why would anyone leave their home? lol

Today, China with cheap labour. Tomorrow drones.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by WirelessGigabit »

neilv wrote: post #32

I hope added fees on orders won't eat into what people are willing to spend on tips to drivers. (I found the default fee seemed way too low during Covid, so I'd bump it up, while still penny-pinching to avoid the smaller fee for a more desirable delivery window. When the added delivery fee is unavoidable tacked-on, maybe that will feel more like I'm paying for the delivery, even the driver isn't paid as well as I thi…

What? I am ordering something from a service.

The wage negation between the person executing the order and the service is none of my concern.

Let's consider Company A building a SaaS product. Company B (person or LLC) wants the product with 3 additional features.

Company A hires me, I write the features and they provide the service to Company B.

I don't expect Company B to tip me.

Re: Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

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Post by moeffju »

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've cancelled my prime membership when they announced the latest price hike. It ends in February, but I've already started ordering from other places more, comparing prices for everything, and buying from Amazon way less. For me, Amazon is now largely failing as a retailer - expensive, full of fakes and low quality items, really bad search, even their customer support isn't what it used to be.
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