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.

  • @ImhotepEnglish
    3•2 days ago

    wouldn’t it be AAMAM because Alphabet?

    I say we keep the word we know

    • BigouEnglish
      -1•2 days ago

      Except all of Alphabet entreprises have a name starting by Google. (Or at least strongly evocating it, in the case of Gmail.)

      We can’t say the same about Meta. Instagram isn’t called “Facebook Gallery”, and Threads isn’t called “Facebook Short Messages”. (And Oculus didn’t become “Facebook VR”, just Meta.)

      • @dariusj18English
        6•2 days ago

        No, those are Google products, Alphabet is Google’s parent company and also holds many other companies like Waze and Doubleclick.

        • BigouEnglish
          1•1 day ago

          Except the team behind Waze was merged with the one behind Google Maps, they just keep the two apps separated (for now) to prevent any backlash. Same with Doubleclick and Google Adds. (In fact, I’ve got the impression Doubleclick became nothing more than an alias for Google Adds. And for quite some time, I might add.)