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Amazon Pantry is being discontinued as Amazon consolidates its
grocery delivery services

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Pantry products will now be sold directly through Amazon

By Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Jan 8, 2021, 9:57am EST

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Amazon has announced that it's discontinued its Amazon Pantry
(originally known as Prime Pantry) service, instead rolling those
household goods and shelf-stable pantry items into the main Amazon
website where they can be ordered alongside the rest of Amazon's
products.

Originally launched back in 2014, Pantry worked differently from most
Amazon orders. Instead of following the usual Amazon delivery rules,
Pantry orders charged customers a flat $5.99 shipping fee per box of
groceries, which could be filled with up to 45 pounds of products or
up to four cubic feet of stuff (whichever limit customers reached
first). The focus of the program was to make it easier to stock up on
everyday products that would otherwise be bulky or expensive to ship,
like bottled water, paper goods, flour, canned food items, boxes of
cereal, and more.

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Amazon would later slightly change up how Prime Pantry worked in 2018
, shifting the service to a $5 per month subscription on top of its
regular Prime fees. That price would offer unlimited Pantry orders
each month, provided that customers were ordering at least $40 worth
of merchandise. Orders below that $40 limit (or for customers, Prime
or otherwise, who hadn't subscribed to Pantry), would instead be
charged a flat $7.99 fee.

Despite the fact that Amazon is removing Prime Pantry, the company's
grocery delivery ambitions are still stronger than ever. Amazon now
owns Whole Foods, an entire chain of grocery stores, and has started
to roll out its own Amazon Fresh-branded stores as well. And the
company still offers its Fresh and Whole Foods delivery service for
Amazon Prime members (having previously removed the $15 per month
subscription fee for that in 2019) that provides grocery delivery in
over 2,000 cities in the United States.

In many ways, the original Pantry program was designed to help Amazon
compete better with traditional grocery stores -- but now that Amazon
owns and operates those very same stores (complete with Amazon Prime
delivery), the consolidation of Pantry back into the larger Amazon
site makes a lot of sense.

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