I never really wanted Amazon Prime. In the beginning, I signed up for Prime, Amazon’s signature membership program, to get access to the Washington Post. At the time in 2017, a one-year subscription to the Post cost $99. For the same price, I could sign up for Amazon Prime and get six months of the Post for free-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns the paper-plus subsequent months for $3.99. If I had to pay $99 either way, I figured, I might as well get a Prime account too. That first year I read the Washington Post a lot and used Prime a little. I lived in New York City, a place where almost anything you can think of-clothes, groceries, toiletries, window box planters, LED decorative lighting,...
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