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Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
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Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
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A better headline would have been "Amazon merges Prime Pantry > into regular .com site". Not exactly. The products for sale are still for sale on the site, yes. But the "pantry" product including a volume-based flat rate shipping. You entered products until you were told that your box was filled and then they shipped it to you flat rate. I used to fill it with kitty litter, dog food, cans of stuff and other heavy pro…
FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.
For the expensive-to-ship items that I've specifically looked into I've generally found that Amazon's price with "free" shipping is cheaper than the price with 2 day shipping from anyone else, but more expensive than slower shipping. When I actually need something in a hurry that makes Amazon the best choice, but I've mostly stopped buying from them for recurring purchases that I can do well in advance.
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
A better headline would have been "Amazon merges Prime Pantry > into regular .com site". Not exactly. The products for sale are still for sale on the site, yes. But the "pantry" product including a volume-based flat rate shipping. You entered products until you were told that your box was filled and then they shipped it to you flat rate. I used to fill it with kitty litter, dog food, cans of stuff and other heavy pro…
Why would someone with prime use prime pantry if it was free shipping anyway?
>Why would someone with prime use prime pantry if it was free shipping anyway?
I used it because there was stuff on there that was (and is) significantly cheaper via Pantry than straight Prime.
And as long as you ordered $35+ worth of stuff from Pantry, shipping was free without that additional Pantry subscription.
Now that Pantry is gone (although they decimated the list of available products on Pantry in the months before shutting it down completely), most of the stuff I used to buy from Pantry is at least 50% more expensive with Prime.
I'm going to be using Amazon for stuff like that a lot less now, because they're no longer competitive with my local grocery store.
And don't even get me started with Amazon Fresh either. Their selection really sucks too, and while their prices are roughly competitive with the local grocery store, the lack of selection just kills it for me.
I'd also point out that FreshDirect[0] is much better than Amazon Fresh in terms of selection as well.
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
A better headline would have been "Amazon merges Prime Pantry > into regular .com site". Not exactly. The products for sale are still for sale on the site, yes. But the "pantry" product including a volume-based flat rate shipping. You entered products until you were told that your box was filled and then they shipped it to you flat rate. I used to fill it with kitty litter, dog food, cans of stuff and other heavy pro…
FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.
> Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.
I wouldn't want to be the delivery guy who has to bring that to your door...
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.
> FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time. This is really common on Amazon, even for things that aren't heavy/large. Amazon used to be a place that gave you some of the best prices on things, but that hasn't been tr…
I especially noticed this when I accidentally browsed logged out once. The same thing that was $X + $Y shipping became $(X + Y) + 0 Prime shipping...
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
#76I was an early adopter of pantry, I used it twice and both times they were out of most of the things I ordered.
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
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It might be better for society to help the orderly shutdown and consolidation of those areas towards communities dense enough to have a functional local economy. This would integrate well with new New Deal style programs where people are helped to migrate to jobs that enrich society and those working; and possibly recapture the former community areas as nature reserves or other non-housing lands.
Many people naturally do this. The "I can't wait to grow up and get out of here" trope is universal to basically every small town in America. Many people with the means to do so also like to leave the city to move to small town America. There's really nothing wrong with either of these life experiences. People's needs are varied, both by person, and by the stage of their life. Living in an economic hotspot is more im…
Yet those small towns continue to exist, until some very poor last remnants eventually stop having children and the town dies off in a literal sense.
A market based solution isn't going to repair a fault like a place doesn't want to economically exist on the map. That's a spot for market regulation to exist and limit suffering.
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
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Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
#79Good riddance. Most people just want to buy mundane household items without having to solve knapsack problems.
I think it was a product from a different era. When Prime Pantry launched, Amazon hadn't acquired Whole Foods, and they didn't have a story for last-mile delivery yet. So they had to ship your order from a warehouse, and the only way to do that profitably on low-margin grocery items was to batch them up into a large order in a box of uniform dimensions. The fact that they no longer need to do this speaks to how far A…
Prime Pantry covered the whole country--including rural America. Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh are only in parts of urban America--and doesn't service rural America at all.
Re: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
#80I think it’s good because I don’t even get the distinction of all these services.
Around here, we have Amazon, Amazon Pantry, Amazon Now and Amazon Fresh and they all sell more or less the same things.
I mean I know there must be a difference but it sure isn’t obvious to me.