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I agree. When I got there, I was stunned that that was the perk instead of "Free Prime membership" (which has about the same cost but just feels better).
by TheDudeMan 5y ago
I agree. When I got there, I was stunned that that was the perk instead of "Free Prime membership" (which has about the same cost but just feels better).
- paxys 5y agoThere's a simple reason for it. This perk is a 10% discount on Amazon products, which means (1) to get $100, employees will have to spend $1000+, which not everyone will do, and (2) the total cost to Amazon is still less than $100, since a lot of the cost is their own profit margin. On the other hand, Amazon operates Prime at a loss, since 2-day shipping is ridiculously expensive. It uses it as a way to get and hold on to new customers, but you don't exactly need to do that when the user is already working for Amazon. So offering that as a perk would end up costing the company more than $100/employee.