If you’ve never bought groceries online before, know that Amazon is a current leader in the online grocery market and with their service, you can shop conveniently from your home and even save on groceries.
Amazon currently sells food and beverages worth of $2 billion, capturing about 18% of the online grocery market. That’s a lot, and what it means for you is that if you’ve been looking for a virtual platform to test online shopping for groceries, Amazon’s it because they deliver.
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Here are a few things to know about shopping online for groceries with Amazon to help you get the most of your experience and money.
- Avoid stretching your bill too much when ordering for the first time.
You’ll want to focus on first getting the feel for online ordering so spend as little as possible the first time you shop.
Especially don’t be throwing money on just anything and make sure you shop within budget.
- Shop non-perishables first, and then as you gain more confidence, add perishable food to the mix.
The best five groceries to shop online when first accessing the service are breakfast foods, coffee, beverages, snacks, and candy.
These are most people’s favorite grocery categories when shopping with Amazon for the first time and the things people usually buy when first placing an order.
Shopping non-perishables will allow you to gain more confidence with the service and possibly encourage you to start including foods like fruits and vegetables, dairies, and meats in your next order.
- You may want to pay for Amazon Prime for access to weekly deals and coupon savings.
Amazon Prime membership (costing $99 per year) includes the Prime Pantry service, which is a virtual place where shoppers can buy all sorts of grocery items at special prices every week and find coupon savings for their purchases.
Coupons are added all the time for household supplies, personal care products, and pantry items like canned seafood, crackers, granola bars, pasta, and breakfast cereals.
- You can test Amazon Prime to see how much money it can save you.
The way to save on groceries with Amazon is to become a Prime member, but the advantage is that they offer a free 30 day trial so you can test if it’s really a money saver for you or not.
Prime members receive other benefits aside from grocery savings. These include free 2-day shipping on every order, up to 20% off diapers, baby food, vitamins, and paper products, free music streaming, and exclusive coupons.
The usual coupon discount is 25% off, but Amazon does provide higher dollar off amounts in coupon savings occasionally.
Also, they have a program called Subscribe & Save that allows members to save more on items they purchase repeatedly. The more orders that you place, the bigger the savings and with every five orders, you’ll get to save an additional 15%.
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You can schedule these Subscribe & Save orders to be delivered as far out as once every six months!