UPDATE: tons of new items and coupons were added to your Prime Pantry option. This free shipping promotion is now more worthwhile than ever.
Remember this deal back in December, where Amazon waived the Prime Pantry $5.99 shipping fee if you purchased 3 select products? Since then, they've had other free shipping offers, but you had to purchase five items and the mandatory item were priced pretty high. Well, guess what? The December deal is back! And I think it might be even better.
But let's start from the beginning.
Prime Pantry is a program that Amazon added to its Prime membership this past year. In a nutshell, Amazon Prime members get to add up to 45 lbs. worth of household, food, personal and beauty items to a Prime Pantry box, and it gets delivered to your house for $5.99. The advantage of the Prime Pantry program over, say, Amazon's Subscribe & Save is that 1) you don't need to buy in bulk quantities, and 2) some of the items are very well-priced.
But for me, that $5.99 shipping just kills the deal every time, no matter how well-priced the Prime Pantry items are. That's the reason that I've rarely recommended a Prime Pantry deal on Daily Cheapskate (and why you won't see them on most other blogs). I just don't think Prime Pantry deals are in your best frugal interest, especially when you can get such fantastic bargains on Amazon Subscribe & Save.
But with this promotion, Amazon will waive that $5.99 delivery charge if you purchase any combination of three select items to your Prime Pantry shopping cart.
Well, that changes everything, doesn't it? Once you add three of the select items to your cart, you can continue filling it until you hit 45 lbs. (Amazon will let you know about the weight).
Here are five items on that "select" list that were really good buys:
This 72-count of Tide Pods Spring Meadow Scent Laundry Detergent for $15.00 - $2.00 coupon = $13.00 (18 cents per pod). This is the lowest Amazon price ever posted for this item, by the way. Compare to Walmart's price over here.
This 30-count Olay Total Effects 7-In-1 Anti-Aging Cleanser Wet Cleansing Cloths for $4.49 $3.29- $1.50 coupon = $1.79 or 6 cents per cloth. Compare this price to Walmart's at thrice the price.
This 60-count Cascade ActionPacs is priced at $9.99 - $0.25 coupon = $9.74 or 16 cents per ActionPac.
If you bought any three of these (or multiples of the same item, as long as you had three minimum) you would score a waiver of the $5.99 shipping, which will show up on the very last screen with your shopping cart, before you click on the "Place your order" button. Make sure that when you are done shopping, you doublecheck that the $5.99 shipping is waived in your shopping cart.
Then, as long as your Prime Pantry box isn't full, you can continue to add Prime Pantry items to your shopping cart until you have reached the 45 lb. limit, and Amazon will tell you when you have reached that limit. Some nice buys:
- Planters Lightly Salted Cashew Halves & Pieces, 8 oz., $3.42 - 25% = $2.57
- Good Sense Triple Antibiotic Ointment, 1 oz., $2.34 - $1.20 = $1.14
- Good Sense Ibuprofen 200 mg, 24-count, $1.08 - $0.50 = $0.58
- Olay Regenerist Regenerating Cream Cleanser, 5 fluid oz., $2.99 - $3.00 coupon = FREE!
- Kraft Caramels, 11 oz. bag, (kosher dairy chalav stam under OK-D) $1.68 - 25% off coupon = $1.26 (great for Purim!!)
- Planters 16.3 oz. Creamy Peanut Butter, $2.38 - 25% off coupon = $1.79
- Blue Diamond Almond Breeze, Unsweetened Vanilla, 32 fluid oz., $1.59
- Sparkle Pick-A-Size Big Roll Paper Towels, White, 6 Count, $5.97 - $0.45 coupon = $5.52 (92 cents per Big Roll)
- Scott Extra Soft Double Roll Bath Tissue, 12 Count, $5.49 - $0.50 coupon = $4.99 (42 cents per double roll)
- Dixie Ultrastrong 108-count combo cutlery, $5.49
- Hunt's Tomato Sauce 15 oz. can, $0.88
- Caza Trail Coffee, Creamy Hazelnut, 50 Single Serve K-Cups, $19.99 (40 cents per k-cup)
- Martinson Coffee Dark Roast k-cups, 48 Count, $25.00 - 25% off coupon = $18.75 (39 cents per k-cup)
- Green Giant Cream Style Sweet Corn, 14.75 oz, $0.88 per can
- King Arthur Organic Coconut Flour, 16 oz., (kosher pareve under OU) $6.59 (compare price to VitaCost)
- Crown Prince Flat Anchovies in Olive Oil, 2 Oz, $1.45
Remember that (unlike Subscribe & Save) you need to be an Amazon Prime member in order to use Prime Pantry. You can always sign up for a 30-day free Prime membership here if you're not already a member.
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