WASHINGTON — Starting Wednesday, Oct. 1, Amazon is ending a program that allowed Prime members to share their free shipping benefits with people outside their household. In an update to its customer ...

Beginning Oct. 1, the company will shut down its Prime Invitee program, which gave non-household members access to free shipping and other benefits. Those affected will be directed to sign up for ...

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it used dark patterns to trick millions of users into enrolling in its Prime program and made it as ...

Amazon is heading to court this week for the start of the FTC's Prime lawsuit. The complaint, filed in 2023, alleges Amazon "tricked and trapped" consumers into signing up for Prime, then made it too ...