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Amazon reins in Prime sharing

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published September 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM CDT

The Amazon Prime logo. (Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon is ending a program that let members of its Prime subscription program share free shipping benefits with people outside their household.

For more on what this means for your shopping and Amazon’s business model, host Sarah McCammon speaks to Roben Farzad, host of the podcast “Full Disclosure.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Here & Now Newsroom