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Originally Posted by Catlady
But you don't NEED Prime to shop at Amazon and take advantage of lower prices. All you have to do is meet a $25 minimum for free shipping. A little planning and combining of orders, and that's not so difficult.
I don't drive. I walk or take a bus.
It seems like you are conflating shopping at Amazon with using Prime. I'm all for shopping at Amazon--it's both convenient and economical. Prime, however, is a luxury.
And let me say again that if people who have financial struggles want to use Prime, that's their business. My issue is with AMAZON trying to pretend that they're somehow doing folks a favor by cutting the Prime price by a paltry amount. If Amazon wants to do something for the financially strapped among us, let them offer a percent discount on certain merchandise or find some other way that isn't taking extra money from those people. They're acting in a very calculated and cynical way to line their own pockets while pretending they're being good guys.
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You get it. You get why I think it's ridiculous. I grew up on SNAP. I grew up on that government cheese which is not discontinued it's now shredded by the way instead of a block. I currently have some in my fridge.
I won't talk about the nightmares that are food pantries.
I grew up without cable and a phone. We walk to a pay phone down the street. I was 16 when we finally got a home phone but we never had cable. Just a beat up pair of rabbit ears that we took turn holding so we could see our favorite shows. lol
We live in a county full of people who use SNAP. My mom included. And for a very short time hubby and I got SNAP. So I'm talking from experience. In order to qualify for SNAP you can't make much. Now I know several who do game the system but a majority of people are real families trying to stay afloat with what little they have. They don't have cable. They use the library for movies or rewards to get a Redbox code. They know how to use coupons. I have learned much from them on how to live on hardly nothing because we don't qualify for SNAP. We don't have cable just internet which is required to find a job and to take career assessment tests. You can't do those on your phone.
If people use Amazon they probably use the free shipping not Prime and only rarely. I stopped buying from Amazon after they jacked up the prices of everything I use to buy. I can get everything much cheaper locally.
We have stores here that deliver locally the fee is cheap to. I've never use it but I know some who are shut-ins that do. Walmart has curb service even here.
Amazon doesn't stand a chance.
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