Amazon has announced the closure of the Try First, Pay Later service, a procedure that allowed you to take up to six items and pay only for the ones you wanted to keep: all the others were returned at no additional cost. The company’s goal seems to be to minimize the flow of returns.
The line at the end is enough simple to decode. Since Andy Jassy became the CEO of Amazon in 2021, the company founded by Jeff Bezos began to cut a number of sectors that they weighed too much on the budget. Including those in which too large investments were made during the months of the pandemic.
In August 2022 the service was cut Amazon Carea telemedicine platform launched in the United States that also included the possibility of receive healthcare directly at home. In January 2023 it cut 18,000 jobs at Amazon Stores.
Now it’s time to close the Prime service Try first, pay lateran option that allowed you to take clothes from digital stores and then pay only for the ones you wanted to keep, returning the others. In this case the company’s goal seems to always be to reduce the flow of returns.
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When the service ends Try first, pay later.
The announcement on official page of the service it is clear: “Try first, pay then it will end on 01/31/2025”. With this procedure, customers could take up to six items including clothing, shoes and accessories. The clothes came taken home without any type of payment. At this point the customer only paid for the ones he wanted to keep and returned all the others. Obviously with returns at no additional cost.
Net of the cuts, Amazon seems to be focusing on other paths for the clothing sector. In January 2024, it launched a series of AI-based services. Recommended sizes, suggestions sewn as a dress on measurements and other functions that Amazon seems to want with create a digital dressing room to be sure of the dress you choose, always to reduce the flow of returns as much as possible.
