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I doubt it, I make a decent amount of money and haven't used their service prices crept up.. $43 usd for $22 usd in fast food burgers is insane

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And it only takes a few times going through checkout to ask, wait, I got a $10 burger and $4 fries, how is my order $30? Nah, I ain't _that_ hungry for a luke-warm burger and soggy fries.

Amazon won online retail, and changed online retail behavior, by getting rid of shipping fees. The price you see on the product is the price you pay (sans sales tax, but at least in the USA no one is used to seeing tax included).

> by getting rid of shipping fees.

you actually mean "by hiding shipping fees in an annual subscription model carefully tuned to deal with real world customer ordering behavior".

Non-Prime customers still see shipping fees for everything.

I'm a non-prime user and I only have to pay shipping on about 20% of orders.

Thanks for that correction. As a prime user, I was clearly ignorant about this.

Uber and DoorDash seem to be doing the same with their annual passes

Don’t have to tip Amazon delivery drivers either!

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