Amazon gives non-Prime members free shipping at $35 or more of eligible items. Instead of simply letting users get the product with free shipping, they’ve added a discount that prices it exactly one cent below the $35 limit, while only subsidizing the price with $3.38, which is about half of what they’ll then charge you for shipping.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Seriously. Through some weird twist of fate, the Walton’s are suddenly looking like the best billionaire retail moguls.

      • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Yeah…no. They ruin communities by undercutting local retailers into oblivion, and then pay starvation wages to force many of their employees onto government assistance just to scrape by.

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          In addition, ordering online from Walmart is every bit as bad as Amazon with the heaps and heaps of low quality Chinese junk sold under brand names that only exist for a few weeks at a time.