In France you still get free shipping for orders > €35; it's not "next day" but it's extremely rare one would need something so urgently as for 24 hours to make

In France you still get free shipping for orders > €35; it's not "next day" but it's extremely rare one would need something so urgently as for 24 hours to make a difference. In fact nowadays the biggest competitor to Amazon is Aliexpress. Extremely reliable, free shipping for orders > €10, and prices often 50-60% less than on Amazon, for exactly the same products. The only drawbacks are 1/ shipping takes 10 days and 2/ returns are complicated. But for less than half the price it's worth it. The main problem with Prime is that Amazon tries to justify its super high cost with Amazon Video, which nobody asked for, and nobody wants because of the incredibly low quality of the catalog. I'm not sure I even understand the strategy. Is it working? Do people actually like Amazon Video Prime and watch it, rather than the myriad other streaming services they're probably also subscribed to? Or is it still an experiment for Amazon?