Posted on 04/25/2018 3:59:55 PM PDT by Twotone
Amazon announced its number of Prime customers for the first time last week. The online retailer counts 100 million of them — who, excluding students and others affiliated with educational institutions, each pay $99 — around the globe to subscribe. Sixty-seven million of these Prime customers live in the United States.
A majority of U.S. households voluntarily joined this exclusive club, which, the numbers indicate, is not very exclusive. Members benefit from discounts, streaming television, movies, and music, expedited shipping, and other perks.
Might Amazon soon offer health insurance coverage to Prime subscribers?
The company, as CNBC reports, already sells supplies and equipment to hospitals, presents its cloud service for healthcare purposes, and markets Alexa as a device to aid people with diabetes and other conditions.
Earlier this year, Amazon announced a partnership with JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to provide better healthcare at cheaper costs for their 1.2 million employees. “The healthcare system is complex, and we enter into this challenge open-eyed about the degree of difficulty,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained in a statement. “Hard as it might be, reducing healthcare’s burden on the economy while improving outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort.”
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Sorry to go off the beaten path, but Amazon has been ####ing up deliveries so BADLY the past maybe 4 months that I am cutting the cord.
Free delivery is common now and their movies REALLY suck, a lot of them.
Politics aside, there’s just no compelling reason to pay 100 a year anymore.
I’m cancelling my Prime membership. I thought it would be nice to have free two-day shipping. Turns out that very few items that I order are eligible for Prime. Waste of $100.00.
I just wait until I have an order over $40 (or whatever the amount is) to get free shipping. The only thing I order from them (with a few exceptions) is books.
Prime member.
Lifetime NRA.
Lifetime GOA.
Costco member.
Sue me.
If you lose, will they still offer free delivery to the grave for Prime members?
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