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Comment by carlmr | Hacker News Reader

I wish they had prime delivery without the video for the old price. I really don't care about that.

Don't worry a competitor will quickly swoop into the market and offer such an alternative, forcing Amazon to decouple these services, improve their video streaming or reduce bundled costs. They are in no way in a monoplistic type situation with such high barriers to entry that competition doesnt regulate them. /sarcasm

Walmart will deliver to your door today, for free, or send things two day shipping. No video service that I'm aware of, cost is 98/yr.

Target, Home Depot, and Costco are currently upping their delivery game as well.

Amazon is huge, no doubting that, but has nothing close to a monopoly for online shopping. Competitors have really amped up in the last year or two.

Reading that resulted in a rollercoaster of emotions. Yeah, government action will be needed for above to happen, but Bezos already seems to have bought them off...

I kind of wish the inverse - they have some really good shows on Prime video, but I don't buy much anymore on Amazon (local stores have really stepped up the same-day delivery game).

Odd. Since you get free delivery on Amazon for all orders over $25 without Prime, the delivery is the less interesting part of the bundle for me.

This is why I don't have it anymore, now I just wait longer until i have the 29€ (Germany) total.

But sometimes I want to order something for less and I just put it in the cart or get it elsewhere.

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