Amazon Prime subscribers will soon lose ability to share benefits outside household

Amazon has just announced a change coming soon for Prime subscribers: the ability to share Prime’s shipping benefits with members outside your household is ending soon.

Prime Invitee program will be discontinued October 1

Amazon Prime’s fast, free shipping has long been the tentpole benefit of the subscription program.

But until now, even non-Prime subscribers could benefit from free Prime shipping as part of an ‘Invitee’ program.

In Prime’s earlier days, subscribers…