Your Amazon Prime the subscription conceals many secrets and advantages. Among them is a powerful tool for saving on groceries — good news for inflation-battered shoppers who are watching food prices skyrocket.
This Amazon hack is Amazon Prime grocery store (opens in a new tab)a subset of Prime’s other online offerings, including Amazon fees (opens in a new tab) and Amazon Grocery (opens in a new tab). Amazon Prime Grocery Outlet offers pantry staples, as well as non-perishable items, which means no products, but you will be find meat and seafood – Slim Jim Steakhouse Strips and Crown Prince Canned Tuna, to be exact.
The beauty of this one is that unlike other grocery stores that are mostly limited to house brands, Amazon Prime Grocery Outlet has it all – major makers, unknowns, and boutiques. You can also use the search function in Amazon Prime Grocery Outlet, another advantage.
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Categories Amazon Prime Grocery Outlet
- Offers: This page offers grocery “coupons” at checkout, saving an additional 10%-30% or specific dollar savings, including $7 off. Items included Nature Valley granola bars, Red Bull drinks, Larabar banana bread and Starburst candies.
- Snacks: You will find fries and chips, cookies, meat snacks, crackers and pretzels as well as gift baskets.
- Breakfast foods: includes cereal, toaster pastries, instant breakfast drinks and more.
- Baby food: infant formula, cereals and porridge and snack foods.
- Kitchen essentials: You’ll find packaged meals and side dishes, meat, poultry and seafood (think canned and dried), vegetables, beans and peas, and luckily enough Sloppy Joe mix. to deserve its own category.
Other categories include hot and cold beverages, candy and chocolate, and products from Amazon’s Subscribe & Save collection.
Subscribe and save is another way to save on groceries (and other products) on Amazon. If you choose Subscribe & Save, you will receive additional discounts by signing up for auto-redelivery of specific products. Note that you are notified well in advance when a Subscribe & Save shipment is sent and you have the option to skip shipments at no charge.
The Amazon Prime Grocery Outlet benefit is a separate bonus from Amazon Outlet and Amazon Warehouse – other great ways to save on groceries and other items. Oh, and in case you forgot, Amazon Prime members also get discounts at Amazon-owned Whole Foods.
Counting benefits has become a must for those given the fate of their Amazon Prime subscriptionwhich has become 17% more expensive in 2022. Some benefits, including Amazon Treasure Truck and Amazon Reader, have been removed (or will be removed soon). But a bonus came in 2022 when Amazon Music opened its archive vaults for Amazon Prime subscribers.