The enormous growth of generous return polices for online purchases is a factor in the digital retail giant's decision to end the benefit for its membership fee-paying customers.

The service, which allowed Prime members to try on select clothing items, shoes and accessories at home before completing a purchase, is set to wind down in the coming weeks.

Online retailer Amazon is ending its "Try Before You Buy" service, which allows its prime customers to try out a half-dozen apparel items at a time for a week before deciding which ones they want to keep. The e-commerce giant announced on its website that ...

Amazon’s Try Before You Buy program, which the company launched for all Prime members in 2018, will cease operations on Jan. 31. The offering, formerly known as Amazon Wardrobe, enabled consumers to test out certain apparel, fashion and footwear items from the company’s assortment at home for seven days before deciding whether to keep the piece.

Launching for all Prime subscribers in 2018 when it was then called Prime Wardrobe, the Prime Try Before You Buy service allows Prime members to order

Amazon began offering Try Before You Buy as a beta program under the name Amazon Prime Wardrobe in 2017. It debuted with 1 million items across name brands like Levi’s and Adidas. Amazon expanded the service’s availability to more Prime customers less than a year later.

Amazon is ending its "Prime Try Before You Buy," a program that lets customers try out certain clothing, shoes and accessories and only pay for what they want to keep.

Amazon is discontinuing its "Try Before You Buy" service, which permitted Prime members to test select apparel, shoes, and accessories at home before making a purchase. The program will conclude on January 31,