Amazon Prime Money Savers

Hello and Welcome to another Money Saving Monday. As you can see this week I am going over Amazon Prime and the great ways you can save on groceries. Of course, there are many other benefits, but those are for another blog. Before you can understand the savings, you must first understand the costs. The main membership is $119 a year, for students $59 a year and for those with EBT or Medicaid it is just $5.99 a month. Even better yet you can have a whole month free just to see if you like it! Do not just take my word for it, try it for yourself: Now that that that is out of the way let us get to the savings! For this blog I have used the Prime Pantry checkout and compared it to shopping using the Walmart online checkout. Now I know Amazon has a fee and Walmart does not, but you will see how quickly the savings add up. What I did was shop for the exact same or equivalent items at both. Here is my shopping cart for Walmart, just slide the pictures over to see them all: Because I did not check out of either shopping carts, I have the subtotal for $63.32. This gives 25 items the average individual coast of $2.53, which is not bad. To learn more about why I break down my pricing this way then visit my posts: Shopping Day Part 1 and Shopping Day Part 2 . Now I actually did the Amazon check out first and then the Walmart check out, but for this blog I did it this way for effect. I tried to keep the exact item or the equivalent. In the first picture of the Amazon slide it shows us that there are 26 items at the subtotal of $52.34, making the individual average $2.01. That is a 50 cent savings per item with a total savings of $10.98. To put that into perspective that is about 5 pounds of chicken or 10 bags of frozen vegetables. So how do we get the best savings from Amazon? They are great with food that is canned, bagged, or boxed. There are some areas that are partnered with Whole Foods, but it is still in the testing process and not in my area. The first thing I do is go to Amazon Pantry. These are the cheapest prices you will find on Amazon; in a way it is like the clarence section. Once there I click on the Deals section, not only does it have the Pantry low prices, but they have different extra deals that change almost weekly. There are also items with coupons attached, either a percentage or a dollar amount. Below is a photo step by step of how to navigate to the deals: Then next thing I like to do is shop the lowest price points in Prime Pantry. Since you must have a $35 minimum you can really pack your cart full! See following pictures on how to do this: Of course, there are many other ways to save using Amazon Prime Pantry, but this is a great way to start saving right away. Until next time, keep saving! Jacque