Why You’ll Never Quit Amazon Prime

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Technology, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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With over 100 million members, Prime is the engine that’s made Amazon a retailing juggernaut and one of the largest companies in the world. Jason Del Rey explores how Prime came to be, why it’s so effective at keeping us locked into the Amazon ecosystem, and how it became the source of the company’s power. Enjoyed this episode? Rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Want to get in touch? Tweet @recode or send an email to landofthegiants@voxmedia.com. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear next week's episode by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:21.8	What was the last thing you bought on Amazon?
0:29.9	This is a company that almost everyone has bought something from.
0:33.8	But how much do we really know about Amazon today?
0:39.4	My name's Jason Delray.
0:41.0	As a reporter, I cover Amazon.
0:43.5	But I also use Amazon a lot.
0:46.3	For many of us, buying stuff on Amazon feels like a crucial part of everyday life.
0:52.0	How crucial?
0:53.4	Let's just start with my own order history.
0:56.4	Well I'm here in our Vox studios with our producer, Rebecca, Hey, Rebecca.
1:01.4	Hi Jason.
1:02.4	Who's forced me to do something that might be very painful, which is look back at how
1:09.0	the Delray family became so dependent on Amazon.
1:12.9	So my son was born in April 2013.
1:15.8	It looks like I signed up for Amazon Prime in May.
1:19.3	That's a big month for you.
1:21.9	It's a big month and I think it's not a coincidence.
1:25.5	It's like my parents generation could sort of chart their life history based on things
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