Amazon Prime Pantry- does anyone use it?

[DrDeth]

@tenacious_j

I am a loyal Amazon shopper, Prime member, and lover of convenience, but I don’t understand how the Prime Pantry model works for the consumer.
I pay extra every month for my prime membership so I can order one or two things once in a while and not have to pay shipping. They show up in 2 days and I’m happy with my new toys.
At no point have I ever wanted enough Pantry eligible stuff to fill a box, and I shop there A LOT. Right now I want to order laundry detergent and hair conditioner. Each are available for $8 at the Prime Pantry price, but the items offered outside that program are more like $20. The retail value is $8, so the $20 price is unreasonable even if it included an allowance for packing and shipping. I’ll go to Target.com, thank you very much.
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I am with you. The Pantry model is something I have always hated and thought a bad idea.

[tenacious_j]

@PastTense

If you just look at Amazon the prices for lower priced grocery stuff is very high at Amazon–because the cost for shipping is built in. So you look at the chicken broth another poster discussed, the same Swanson chicken broth which is $.99 at Amazon Pantry is $2.83 each (in a case of 6) at Amazon.

But outside Amazon this same Swanson chicken broth is also $.99 at Target–and you don’t have to pay for the Pantry box or membership.

I understand that- I’ve price shopped all of them. What I’m looking for isn’t the value of shopping at Amazon vs. another .com, it’s the value of prime pantry vs. regular old amazon.

Another poster mentioned they’d changed the program, which I hadn’t realized. They used to make you buy 100% of a “box” but I’m not sure what constituted the box. Now it’s $40 worth of eligible items for people who pay an extra $4.99 per month. But don’t they have $25 minimum for free shipping for everything else? I’m still ignorant, people! :o Fight on!

[Little_Nemo]

Back when I had Amazon Prime, they used to give you an option for having your orders delivered via the normal shipping rather than via the expedited shipping you were entitled to as a Prime member. The difference was only a couple of days. If you agreed to take the slower option (and thereby saved Amazon a few bucks) they would give you a credit for some of their services. Some of the most common credits they gave out were for Prime Pantry.

I didn’t have too much interest in Prime Pantry in general. But at one point I had something like ten dollars worth of credits for it so I put together an order and had them ship it to me. I didn’t get anything unusual except for some instant cheese grits, which I can’t find in NY stores.

[PastTense]

@tenacious_j

I understand that- I’ve price shopped all of them. What I’m looking for isn’t the value of shopping at Amazon vs. another .com, it’s the value of prime pantry vs. regular old amazon.

I gave the example:
The same Swanson chicken broth which is $.99 at Amazon Pantry is $2.83 each (and you have to buy in cases of 6) at regular old Amazon. There are hundreds of comparable products like this.