&gt; They also have started sucking in buying things, with things like &quot;pantry&quot; which require you to buy a box for $5 so you can get things like soap.<p>Delivering batches of household goods of arbitrary size profitably is a hard problem that no one has figured out. Everyone is fiddling with business models trying to make it work.<p>I think at the end of the day shipping is expensive and trying to hide that from customers without incentivizing profit-negative transactions is nigh impossible.<p>Things will probably change when we have droids roaming the sidewalks, but until then these strange charges are going to keep popping up.