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Going back to the early focus of this thread, Amazon's questionable practices upon checkout:
I placed an Amazon order for a few items today (something that's become a rare occurrence for me), making sure to meet the $35 free-shipping threshold. After I refused offers of a Prime free trial and got to the checkout page, I noticed that Amazon was charging me for shipping. I went back to verify that my items were all shipped and sold by Amazon, which they were. Then I finally noticed that on the checkout page, the default was two-day paid shipping. I had to specifically click the free-shipping option.
This is nuts, and seems to be designed to make consumers pay for a service they don't want. When the default has always been free shipping at a certain threshold, it's easy to assume that you are indeed getting free shipping without having to ask for it. I don't know of any online retailer that does what Amazon is now doing.
If Walmart wasn't out-of-stock on one of my items, I would've ordered there instead. Amazon continues to push me away as a customer.
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