Its Prime service, which costs $79 a year, is popular.
$99 a year for the Prime service, which also includes free shipping on Amazon purchases.
Amazon has its Prime service, and Wal-Mart's Vudu streaming service comes installed on most new television sets.
This seems similar to Amazon's hugely successful "Prime" service, which costs $79 a year to join in America.
The company has heavily promoted its Prime service, which provides customers two-day shipping for $79 a year.
Customers have to be a member of Amazon's premium Prime service to take part — but thankfully that isn't as complicated or as expensive as it might sound.
ShopRunner, which provides free two-day shipping services for retailers similar to Amazon.com's Prime service, could eventually yield new insights for core Alibaba businesses like Taobao.
Such braided ropes require specialized machinery and are used to best advantage where rope flexibility and torsional balance are prime service requirements.
It assails users every time they open the app just as Amazon assails its customers with its Prime service every time they buy something.
AWS combined with enthusiastic take-up of its premium "Prime" service to generate better than expected revenue for the second quarter of the year.
