here's a story about Amazon Amazon has the service called Amazon Prime which
for nine years cost $79 dollars a year
Amazon Prime is kind of like a membership service where you get free
two-day shipping on anything you buy regardless of how much stuff you order
normally to get any kind of bridge free shipping with Amazon
need to spend at least thirty-five dollars and you also get access to some
streaming video and movies
and there are a few other benefits there is also a discounted student
prime rate of thirty nine dollars amazon has announced that starting next month
there will be an increase in the cost of prime from $79 dollars to ninety nine
dollars for the year
or from $39 dollars to forty nine dollars for the year for student
prime accounts I think that this is very interesting
because we could have a conversation and we have had the conversation
about whether Amazon is destroying small businesses certainly some bit small
businesses it is thus trying
whether overall it's positive or negative but i am just very very
interested in services that are going in the direction
above right now delivery right Amazon is also
starting to setup up kind of like deposits
%uh items in major metropolitan area so you can even get
I delivery with a few hours if certain things predicting what stuff people are
going to order
here in Europe city we have a service called seamless which is seamless dot
com
where local restaurants have their menus online and you go online under the
premise that people really hate calling for takeout or delivery
you check of the items you want you include the tips for the delivery driver
or say you're going to pick the food up
and then 15 20 30 40 minutes later
someone shows up at your door and your food they've already been tipped
everything's already been paid for an incredibly popular service
Amazon jokingly but according to some it's not a a real
upcoming thing had this thing about drone delivery when they were featured
on 60 minutes
when we think about this it's such a drastically different
back depending on where you live band and my experience with it has been
when we were in western Massachusetts Louis things were just
very convenient you had grocery stores in electronic stores
nearby and it was easy to get there
hark get your stuff and come back there were long lines it was kinda like an
intermediate situation however
here in Europe City if you go to Trader Joe's at the wrong time of day
you got a line that wraps around store and get take you 45 minutes to get
through
if you wanna drive because you can have a lot of grocery bags
most grocery stores don't even have parking lots
at the same time if you live in very rural areas
if you just need to go get soap shaving cream in paper towels
it might be a very long drive consuming
significant amount of fossil fuels for people in those a rural areas services
like Amazon Prime I get emails from people who use our Amazon link for
purchases
they say Amazon Prime is so worth it whether it's 80 or 100 bucks
because I don't wanna waste 20 30 40 miles round trip on gas
three times a week when I need to run out and get something if it's not urgent
I throw it on Amazon order and in two days
it in at my at my front door yeah it does seem very convenient
I mean I'd I don't order a lot of stuff on Amazon I happen to live right now in
one of those ultra convenient locations right never really need to be a
three-mile radius
I don't I don't have to you right and bite Amazon does have
a lotta stuff that you might not be able to find anywhere else in the price is a
pretty good so
I mean to I think it is now rages increase no I don't think so
well if we look at the inflation above over the last nine years
it actually makes sense that it would cost about a hundred bucks now if they
did aid eighty
cost eighty dollars nine years ago I'm curious to hear from people what are
your experiences with services like Amazon Prime
seamless if you live in New York City other services do you find these to be
really convenient or do you see the more as
ways to try to capture market share by preying on people's laziness I guess is
the way I would say
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