Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon, the giant retailer, has changed its free shipping policy. Amazon’s minimum order size for free shipping is now $35 instead of $25, with the change in policy taking effect Monday.
“This is the first time in more than a decade that Amazon has altered the minimum order for free shipping in the U.S.,” the company said in a statement.
Amazon also used its statement to make a case for customers to become Amazon Prime members, which won’t be affected by the change in the free shipping policy.
“Millions of Amazon customers have already made the choice of faster shipping by coming Amazon Prime members. Prime includes unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping, with no minimum order size, on more than 15 million items, as well as unlimited streaming of over 41,000 movies and TV episodes through Prime Instant Video and access to over 350,000 books to borrow through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. The service is so popular that more than a year ago we began shipping more items with Prime than with free shipping,” the statement also said.
