At some point I am gonna feel bad about this… probably. But since I got Prime recently I really am a 1st World Dipshit 
I used gather up 4 or five items, at least $50 bucks worth, but no longer for me. $3.50, free Prime Delivery Tomorrow, for a bottle bush that looks slightly better contoured, yeah add one more to the other 3 deliveries scheduled for Tomorrow.
I don’t get it. Where’s the abuse? I use Amazon Prime damn near every day.
Tripler
Renewing my membership tonight, as a matter of fact.
You literally paid for this service. I don’t see it as abuse. If Amazon doesn’t like it they can discontinue Prime.
I’m the one who should feel like he’s abusing Amazon Prime. I keep signing up for a one-month free trial of Prime, then canceling it, so that I never pay for it. But as long as they keep offering me a free trial, I’ll keep taking them up on it.
It’s not abuse. We order small stuff all the time. We also watch a lot of free stuff on prime video.
You paid for prime, you might as well use it.
ETA:
Now this is abuse. 
You are using the service exactly as Amazon intends. Their goal is for every time you need something for you to just order it from Amazon.
What good marketing that you think you’re getting the better of them 
Amazon’s Baltimore distribution center is within local delivery distance. If they have it there, I can get items the same day, sometimes in just a couple of hours.
Sorry, I guess my intended tone didn’t come across. It was all tongue in cheek, and I don’t worry that I am actually abusing a company worth literal Trillions.
I do fell bad about the useless packaging I am creating. But mostly it is amazement from an old Dude who remembers looking things up in a catalog where the options were 4-6 weeks or 6-8 weeks(nobody could afford the 3-4 weeks option).
They have that too.
I was of the ‘old Dude’ mentality too, back in the day. It still takes 4 - 6 weeks when Amazon ships to APO addresses overseas, but that’s due to other factors.
I’d get food shipped too, but it’s easier to drive to their other company, “Whole Foods.”
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I subtly fear their expansion.
I’m quite sure my Prime membership pays for itself just in shipping :).
I favor Instacart or Walmart+. Whole Paycheck is a wee bit outside my budget.
I can sympathize with the OP … I feel a little weird about making small purchases that are promptly delivered to my doorstep by the uniformed driver of a happy blue van.
But, even when I consolidate my purchases into a single order, they’re rarely delivered that way—even if I choose the “fewer boxes” shipping option. I assume Amazon knows what it’s doing and isn’t losing money on me.
I’ve shopped at Amazon for over 20 years and worked there for a few. I’ve had a Prime membership for longer than I can remember and have been “abusing” it like the OP forever. They don’t care; it’s part of their business.
Of course. Their business model is making the impulse purchase , while wearing underwear on the couch, the easiest and most profitable part of the model is why it is a trillion dollar company. that isn’t any confusion.
Savage 
Yeah same here. I keep trying to be eco-friendly and wait to purchase multiple items at once but still I get that packet of batteries in a big box by itself, and another shipment with the rest of my goods.
I’m racking up those Digital Credit points, though!
They are trying to find ways to reduce use. actually: often, when I buy something, I’m offered a chance to get the item slower, with a 1.00 rebate (that can only be used on Amazon digital stuff, but hey, it’s still a kickback).
But yeah., you’re not abusing it. I mean, it’s wasteful in terms of packaging to order tiny things every day and have them all shipped separately, but that’s part of what they expect.
I actually do sometimes abuse my Prime membership by returning things that I ordered just to see if they would do what I wanted.
Mom has been staying with us since November and is still surprised that we use it for things she considers ordinary. Last order? A large package of the cookies she likes to eat with tea.
I’m an old fart who can remember 4-6 weeks shipping, she’s old enough to be my mother which means she remembers how long it took the dinosaurs to bring her Sears Catalog orders. I have happily adapted to ordering online and she is learning how easy and fast it is.
OK I am convinced: of my absurdity.
OK GOOGLE " PLEASE CANCEL ORDER OF WORLDS SMALLEST VIOLIN"
Awaiting Confirmation…
Do they deliver it by drone?
Amazon has really help me stay out of stores. Just today, I needed a couple of parts in the middle of a repair. I was about to bike across town to Home Depot, when I decided to check Amazon. Hey, I can get those parts in about eighteen hours, free shipping!
So instead of a shopping trip, I sat down with a bourbon and ginger beer (which is safer than sharing a public space with DIY-ers who are more careful with a sawzall than with a pandemic).