Amazon gives non-Prime members free shipping at $35 or more of eligible items. Instead of simply letting users get the product with free shipping, they’ve added a discount that prices it exactly one cent below the $35 limit, while only subsidizing the price with $3.38, which is about half of what they’ll then charge you for shipping.
Non profit doesn’t mean no profit.
Non profits make enough profit to pay their employees, rent, and any other business needs, or they get money from other sources. They still need and make money to operate.
For a company to succeed, there must be profit, or have an outside source of funding.
You cannot pay rent, employees or other business expenses with revenue and no profit without going into debt.
Non profit means no profit. Salaries, rent, etc are not paid from profit.
That is fundamentally what profit is, revenue less expenses. By definition, profit is money that does not have anywhere to go in a business, and so gets distributed to stake holders of the company.