Now that Amazon has largely integrated Whole Foods into its online shopping options, the online shopping giant is looking to reduce some of its more redundant offerings by closing Prime Pantry delivery service.
Launched in 2014, Prime Pantry was created to help people purchase non-perishable food or clean bulk supplies using a low-cost fixed shipping fee (or free if you were an Amazon Prime member), with the caveat that all the items had to fit in a single standard size box.
Later in 2018, for anyone who was not an Amazon Prime subscriber, Amazon offered customers the option to pay $ 5 a month to subscribe to the Amazon Pantry, to avoid those flat-rate delivery fees.
However, after Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017 and the expansion of Prime Now and Amazon Fresh delivery options, it seems that Prime Pantry had become useless, and on Wednesday this week, Amazon decided to permanently close Prime Pantry.
In a statement to Bloomberg, said an Amazon spokesperson faster, without a subscription or an additional purchase requirement. “
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An Amazon spokesman also said that previous Prime Pantry subscribers were notified of the upcoming closure of Prime Pantry in December and should have received refunds for unused subscription time.
Even though I occasionally enjoyed loading a Prime Pantry box full of junk food before things like the Super Bowl, given the massive expansion of Amazon’s online shopping empire in recent years, Prime Pantry was probably delayed. .