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> Free shipping is the God of online retail, so powerful that France actually banned the practice to protect its retail outlets. That's not entirely accurate.
by docdeek 5y ago
> Free shipping is the God of online retail, so powerful that France actually banned the practice to protect its retail outlets.
That's not entirely accurate.
France has disallowed free shipping for books. Every other category of product at Amazon qualifies for free shipping.
While the article the author links to makes this clear near the end of that article, to write that France has banned free shipping is barely accurate.
- sofixa 5y agoAnd Amazon just make you pay 0.01€ for shipping when you buy only books, so the law is moderately effective.
- canada_dry 5y ago> make you pay 0.01€ for shipping Hard to imagine they (bureaucrats drawing up the regs) didn't see that coming. I'm guessing they did, but saying they enacted legislation to protect small sellers was their real goal.