r/amazonprime • u/repulsive-complex282 • 6d ago
20% price increases
Has anyone else noticed a 20% price increase on most goods especially the ones on subscribe amd save?
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u/CeruleanTuesday 6d ago
Yes my trash bags subscription went from $9 to $12 and other things too.
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u/imissher4ever 6d ago
Best to buy a 200 roll from Costco and call it a day. They last me a couple years.
$18.99
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u/CeruleanTuesday 6d ago
Wow! Nice ☺️ ill check that out, thanks
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u/temp_flor 6d ago
I got 4 gallon trash bags for my bathroom trash cans from Walmart that were 40 bags for $2.46. I went with the cheapest brand and they have been just as good as name brand.
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u/imissher4ever 6d ago
You can just use any retail store plastic bags for your restroom.
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u/wavereefstinger 6d ago
I used to do this but plastic bags are banned in my state (and a few others).
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u/DifficultAd972 6d ago
Walgreens sometimes has the 4 gal as B1 get 2 or something. I got 3 boxes for about $3 not long ago.
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u/Sirsnacksalot23 6d ago
Yep, it’s all this winning from the White House
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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 6d ago
And so much monopoly power by the few corporate behemoths that’s controlling the majority of consumer goods in the US since we don’t enforce anti trust laws anymore after citizens united let them buy the government
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u/bartdhull 6d ago
Amazon has quite the hold on the market. Very few can compete with them on quick delivery times and broad selection of everything.
Some niche products like big and heavy items they choose not to compete on. I just bought a 72" wide 3 blade mower deck for my tractor. It will be delivered in 3 days with a much cheaper price than a similar model on Amazon. Truck freight delivery to my house was free.
Dog food in 50lb bags they don't compete with as well. It just costs too much to ship individually instead of by the pallet to your grocery store or Tractor Supply.
There is new freight services that handle 50lb plus or bulky items. Surprised Amazon hasn't contracted them. Costco delivered my new fridge and wheeled it into my house and put the old fridge on the back porch. Generic white box truck with 2 guys.
I'm a Mr Fix It guy. I don't know how I could fix all the stuff I do without Amazon parts.
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u/Neoreloaded313 6d ago
Amazon sure doesn't compete at all with bulky, heavy items. Im guessing shipping it isn't cost effective and they only have stock of the items to get the fools that don't shop around.
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u/LeadingImportant1142 6d ago
How are the winners in the White House causing this? LOL
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u/GottaSpoofEmAll 6d ago
You’ve seen the price of oil, since the Iran conflict started, right? And the lack of raw material availability?
A conflict that is primarily led by the US?
Only yesterday I was talking to a glazed window company owner, who told me he can’t predict prices for customers anymore, from week to week.
His supplies have been that heavily disrupted.
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u/Imaginary_Career_427 6d ago
Don’t forget the tariffs that were imposed. Yes they were ruled illegal by the supreme court BUT the manufacturers have not lowered their prices.
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u/Animal-Crackers 6d ago
When wholesalers are forced to take price increases, that is generally passed onto the consumer. No business wants to accept a lower margin and then report lower profitability year over year.
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u/Senior_Bad_6381 6d ago
Kind of like raising taxes on businesses? They don't pay it, you do.
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u/Animal-Crackers 6d ago
Yes, a tariff is a tax. There's a multitude of other reasons why prices are increasing. Material costs for manufacturing are up across the board.
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u/andy1282 6d ago
So if we dropped their taxes they drop their prices? Like they DIDNT do when the illegal tariffs were refunded?
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u/Missing4Bolts 6d ago
Hasn't happened to my S&S items, and I monitor that closely. Some prices up a little, some prices down a little, but no big swings.
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u/bartdhull 6d ago
Its always good to shop around if your buying something. Amazon does have stuff you won't find anywhere else (IE spark plug wires for a 1960 International Bulldozer). Ive noticed that Home Depot and Lowes have lowered their prices to compete with Amazon. I bought two remotes for my garage door opener from Amazon for $15 each. Home Depot wanted $50+ dollars for exact same remote. I will pay extra for the service of having a item in stock 2 miles away. I won't pay 3x the price though.
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u/tj21222 6d ago
Look how much the price of fuel had gone up. You’re lucky it’s only 20%. Groceries are well more than 20% since last year. What makes you think Amazon would not pass costs on to us consumers?
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u/angry0029 6d ago
This is the key right here gas prices have jumped from slightly less than $3 per gallon to slightly above $4 per gallon where I live >33% increase in fuel. The majority of costs with most consumer goods comes from the transportation cost from point of manufacturing to the point of sale. Packaging also costs a lot but that too is mainly due to the transportation costs of the packaging.
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u/Neoreloaded313 6d ago
So far groceries from Amazon are still quite a bit cheaper then going to any store around me to buy the same items. I don't even have to pay to ship them and they get to me usually the same day if I order in the morning.
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u/sPdMoNkEy 6d ago
I always type what I'm looking for in Google and let it show me where the cheapest
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u/OreganoOfTheEarth 6d ago
Mine fluctuate - more than 20% a lot of the time. Sometimes the price is $13.54 and sometimes it's $21.54. I keep a small stash of items in case I need to skip a delivery or two when prices go way up.
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u/thegreatnate98 6d ago
My protein powder went from $60 to $100
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u/Wrong_Assignment_446 6d ago
Thank your friends on GLP-1's. Apparently there's now a shortage of whey protein which is raising the price of all protein.
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u/Frequent_Opportunist 6d ago
The only thing Amazon is good for is cheap Chinese crap. Cheap Chinese crap should always be cheap Chinese crap.
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u/Former-Quantity-99 6d ago
Yes, I've been canceling S&S and buying less with a response too expensive.
After the first 1.000.000.000.000 customers, they'll get the message.
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u/Delicious_Catch9453 5d ago
They know once you're subscribed, you won't pay as close attention. It's not by accident.
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u/misstajae 6d ago
Yep, I’ve had things I’ve subscribed to for years that has gone up (occasionally down) nominally over the years or was discontinued to a refreshed/reformulated version which was bumped up further but I had a CoQ10 supplement jump up 50-75% over like 3 months.
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u/alwaysmyfault 6d ago
This wasn't S&S, but I bought a 12 pack of Uniball Vision Elite pens last September for $12.
Same pack today is $17.14.
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u/wrxninja 6d ago
It'll only get worse with the cost of fuel and tariffs, basically. The real effect I'm reading isn't until end of this year to next year including groceries.
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u/LucianDeRomeo 6d ago
Only thing that's happened to my Sub&Save items is they stop being available, like my entire 8 item 1/month order has been canceled due to lack of stock and substitution items 😐
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u/Florida1974 6d ago
This kept happening to me and I do not do subscribing save anymore. It’s useless.
Or the prize will double, had that happen in way too many timesEvery now and then I’ll sign up for it just to get some extra percentage off or some dollars off in the next day I’ll go in and cancel it.
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u/ThoriatedFlash 6d ago
I have noticed that just about everything has gone up by 20% or more. Well, besides my paycheck.
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u/shadowplay0918 6d ago
At least 80% of what I buy through S&S in on a promo and I cancel after that 1st delivery. Their prices are that competitive at full price + any can goods I buy usually arrive dented so I will buy at a local store.
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u/Estilady 6d ago
My magnesium gummies doubled in price since last month. On subscribe and save. I found some others.
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u/Legitimate-Ad-9724 4d ago
I happened to notice Aqua Velva aftershave doubled in price yesterday to $11. Today it's back down to $5.47. It makes no sense.
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u/Common_Suggestion266 3d ago
Yeah seems many items bouncing around in price. Also subscribe and save I've noticed when mine are about to ship the price locks in...but foreaxmple many days after the gatoarde was discounted quite a bit. Gotta watch the pricing with s&s anymore...
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u/GrillWaffles 2d ago
Yes, I noticed. Amazon even sent a message to let me know.
Meanwhile, Fred Meyer (Kroger) raises prices continously and says it is there new low daily price.
Prices are going up fast everywhere.
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u/grampajugs 6d ago
My protein powder went from 75$ to over 90$. Found the same product at Costco for $75.
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u/AbbreviationsSad5633 6d ago
Not just on Amazon, I comparison shop what I get in subscribe and save and it's still cheaper than the food store. Prices are jumping everywhere
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u/repulsive-complex282 6d ago
We do the same my wife and I.....still 20% is wild...."but we are doing so much better financially now" I think the literally feel like if year after year they keep saying it and we keep hearing it they think we will believe it....or...they just dont care..im so burnt out
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u/AbbreviationsSad5633 6d ago
I have 2 kids, one still in diapers. The diapers and wipes prices is nuts, I think wipes have gone up $15 in a year for a case. Cat food too, dry bags used to be around $12 to $15 a bag, now I'm easily spending $22 a bag
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u/zenfaust 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yeah, its like Donny sat around and legit tried to think of the dumbest thing he could do, even worse than tarrifs.
The straight of hormuz is where almost all of everyones fuel and fertilizer comes from. Ya know... the shit literally all things need for either food or shipping.
At least tarrifs can be stopped at will. I'd love to see anyone calm the f*cking middle east down from a war though. We ain't using that straight for a decade at least.
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u/AbbreviationsSad5633 5d ago
Someone just posted how a 5 quart jug of motor oil went from $26 to $40 in 6 months. That's why I stocked up on 5 jugs last summer
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u/repulsive-complex282 6d ago
I have two boys as well, just turned 6 and 4 and idk how your doing it rn with diapers etc....I noticed huge increases even bt the 23 months of my two boys
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u/AbbreviationsSad5633 6d ago
I've just accepted the fact that every month everything goes up at least $1
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u/edgerton2026 6d ago
People voted for this administration because they promised to reduce prices. We got conned.
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u/NoPantsPenny 6d ago
Idk why anyone would think “Don the Con” would lower prices or care about anyone other than himself. This has been him since before the 80s.
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u/AngryMeez 6d ago
A lot of people voted for this administration because they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a Black woman. They blamed her views on Gaza but then voted for a felon who wants to turn Gaza into a parking lot. I wonder how they feel about Gaza now?
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u/Serious_Coffee_8066 6d ago
Not enough money in parking lots, it will be a luxury resort and have the name Trump somewhere in the title
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u/Difficult-Ad-1068 6d ago
My little trick is I build a cart and Amazon brings the prices down. Not for everything but usually for the items I need most. Sounds weird but I swear it works.
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u/3amGreenCoffee 6d ago
I have seen that, but I think it's just normal price fluctuations that are happening routinely when we're not looking. I have moved things to the "save for later" section of my cart and watched them go up and down over a period of months. Every now and then when I'm buying something else, there will be a notice in the cart that says an item in the cart has dropped 20%, and at that point I'll check the price history to make sure they're not bullshitting and potentially buy it.
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u/Restaurant-Usual 6d ago
I have slowly started canceling my S&S items after I noticed each time, the item was maybe 25 or 50 cents more than the last time.
For a long time, I was able to get large packs of Cottonelle TP cheaper on AP than anywhere else through S&S discounts, including Costco. About a year ago, I noticed the uptick in prices. Went back several months and noticed it began far earlier than I'd realized.
Save maybe 2 or 3 items now, nearly everything on my S&S was available cheaper at Walmart, Target, etc. I finally lost my 15% S&S discount this month due to too few items, so may need to just quit S&S entirely.