A better headline would have been "Amazon merges Prime Pantry into regular .com site".<p>> <i>"As part of our commitment to delivering the best possible customer experience, we have decided to transfer Amazon Pantry selection to the main Amazon.com store so customers can get everyday household products faster, without an extra subscription or purchase requirement"</i>
I had said many times Amazon had too many ways to order groceries:<p>1. Amazon.com<p>2. Amazon Prime Pantry<p>3. Amazon Fresh<p>4. Whole Foods via Amazon Prime Now<p>5. Amazon items via Amazon Prime Now*<p>*I never figured out what exactly this was. Was it just Amazon.com listing reproduced in the Prime Now app? Was it Amazon Fresh and/or Prime Pantry items? Was it some other set of items?
It was an odd market niche. Only dry packaged groceries so I couldn't go "grocery shopping", but also could not be combined with my Fresh order.<p>The limited selection and lack of a price benefit meant it wasn't worth the hassle of another order.
Be careful with the website posted. Nod32 reported one of the scripts as a trojan <a href="https://64bitss.club/www.google-analytics.com/subscriptioninsider.com.js" rel="nofollow">https://64bitss.club/www.google-analytics.com/subscriptionin...</a><p>Pretty sure this is spam.
No loss - Prime Fresh has all the stuff that Prime Pantry had without that whole fill the box or pay a fee concept that was such a pain to work around. Though I have to admit I’m a bit disenchanted at the moment because I’ve had the same prime fresh basket open for almost two months now and all the baked goods I want are perpetually either out of stock or available one day further out then I can schedule. No problems with meat, cheese, or dairy but bakery goods are like catching unicorns.
The move makes sense. In theory Prime Pantry is a good idea, since it reduces the cost of shipping that we're all paying as consumers on "free" shipping items. But the logistics of finding enough stuff to fill the box went against the idea of Amazon, which was think of a thing and order it immediately. I'm not sure if others were organized enough to order their paper towels/soap/toilet paper etc at the same time, but I certainly wasn't.
It was a strange offering from Amazon. They had a very limited selection coupled with poorly boxed items meant that I only tried it twice before giving up on it. All the items in the second and last order I received were thrown in a single box with no effort to protect the contents from each other.<p>I get the feeling this was a common occurrence, because the interest in it amongst my friends vanished almost as quickly as it started.
Prime Pantry was great... if all you care about is processed food<p>Every time I tried to use it I couldn't find enough stuff to fill the box with. The bulky stuff (like canned sodas) were more expensive than costco, and I can only eat so many boxes of Cheez-its and Belvita bars
> products, beverages, breakfast items and other household products in bulk for a $5 per month fee<p>Is this separate from Amazon Prime?<p>> Prime Pantry launched in 2014 and, similar to Amazon Fresh,<p>Was Amazon Fresh the precursor to Prime Pantry?<p>>In an email to Bloomberg, an Amazon spokesperson explained the company’s rationale for discontinuing Prime Pantry,<p>Why is this author parroting a Bloomberg article? Hasn't bloomberg already reported on this?<p>Is it just me or is Amazon bloated with so many deals and 15% off here 10 % off there? It seems annoying.
I think it’s good because I don’t even get the distinction of all these services.<p>Around here, we have Amazon, Amazon Pantry, Amazon Now and Amazon Fresh and they all sell more or less the same things.<p>I mean I know there must be a difference but it sure isn’t obvious to me.
This was just another experiment for Amazon. Shutting it down just means it didn't work out for whatever reason but they'll probably try a similar concept again with a few twists. There are so many 'businesses' under Amazon and many of them compete with each other. Often times this doesn't make sense to the end consumer but these are all just experiments being run to see what kinds of businesses might work.