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Amazon, others change “free” delivery as prices rise.

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As prices rise and e-commerce shrinks, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other online merchants that utilize free delivery to build customer loyalty are fighting to protect it from draining earnings.

Companies are charging more for speedier service, boosting minimum purchase requirements, and other adjustments that burden financially suffering consumers.

“Free delivery is numbered,” said Cambridge Retail Advisors managing partner Ken Morris.

Morris said retailers are becoming more like airlines, which charge for nicer seating and baggage and restrict frequent flyer points.

Most shops hike prices to cover free delivery. Nevertheless, product inflation and rising transportation costs make the service unsustainable as the recession threatens already-flagging online purchasing.

Amazon touted free shipping as a distinction and utilized costly Prime subscriptions and big revenues from other businesses to subsidize its package delivery expenses, driving other shops to follow, even if they lacked Amazon’s advantages.

With retail margins falling and shipping prices for UPS, FedEx, and the USPS at record highs, the industry where almost three-quarters of e-commerce businesses provide free delivery is revisiting the financial cost of habituating buyers to free shipping.

Lee Spratt, CEO of logistics company DHL eCommerce Solutions America, said retailers’ top concern is cutting delivery costs, followed by speed.

Amazon, Einstein Pets, Zara, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Foot Locker are not willing to lose money on service customers anticipate.

According to AFS Logistics chief analytics officer Mingshu Bates, shipping cost reduction objectives are up to 25%.

Amazon’s recent moves are instructive.

The online retailer, which recently raised the annual Prime subscription price by $20 to $139, now offers “free” same-day shipping for Prime members in at least a dozen U.S. locations, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Nonetheless, the service is free on orders above $25 and $2.99 on transactions under that.

Amazon upped the minimum barrier for free Prime delivery from its failing online food business to $150 from $35 at the start of March and levied $3.95 to $9.95 for orders below the new level.

IN FEBRUARY, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the company is cutting expenses throughout the business and that shipment speed will not suffer. On Thursday, a spokeswoman said. Prime shipping speeds increased from 2021 to 2022 and are improving this year.


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