Amazon S&S - what do you order?

[wifecat]

I hardly ever use S&S, and I feel like I need to figure out some things that would be a good value for us. Every time I start looking, I just get overwhelmed! I did just find my son's Cetaphil Restoraderm lotion (works well for his eczema) and so I'm putting that on S&S. But what stuff have you found is a good deal for your family?

[specialp]

diapers are the only which are both a good deal and are easy to guess the frequency/need (I do cancel when we are getting close to moving up a size.) Prenatal vitamins when I was pregnant. I may add our dishwashing detergent pods.

[mommylamb]

Nothing. I hate the changes they've made to S&S where now there is a set monthly date and you won't get your stuff until then. When I need diapers, I need them soonish, not at Amazon's random date. Even though I have nothing on my S&S, if I were to add diapers, they wouldn't come for a month. In the mean time, I'll get costco to ship them to me for less money than I'd pay at Amazon and also free shipping.

There used to be a couple of things that i had on S&S, but I stopped needing them.

[mikala]

I used to have a decent list but Amazon has dropped at least five of my items from Subscribe and Save in the past month or two. Anyone else experience this?

[Kindra178]

Amazon has dropped some of my staples. However, I still get:

Kleenex paper hand towels
various spices
Enjoy Life products
canned coconut milk
coconut oil
elk antlers
Miracle Noodles
Vanilla Milk
granola bars



I used to get blue Daw, Seventh Generation Free and Clear Laundry detergent and dishwasher detergent.

[AnnieW625]

Not much because they keep dropping my stuff. I share the same frustrations as Mommylamb. If you price shop with Target/WalMart/Sam's Club/Costco or even a military base store I don't think for staples it is a great deal, but if you have zero time to shop then convenience wise it's great.

I finally added Clif Z bars and got them in January an then low and behold they have been oos since.

I got DDs diapers or pull ups from them almost continuously from 2007 to 2011, but when they changed the subscription benefit from 30% to 15% it became much less of a deal ESP. for 7th Generation diapers and thankfully Dd2 had no issues with Costco diapers.

[brittone2]

I can't always hit 5 items, but some of what I get:
Jarrow protein powder (unsweetened)
emergen-C
Lara bars
Emergen-C
Charlie's Soap

[liz]

I used to have great luck ordering cereal, but they seemed to have dropped most of the cereals we eat. Right now I don't have anything on S&S.

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[oneplustwo]

I've been frustrated with Amazon's S&S, especially recently. Amazon prices fluctuate so much, I have to monitor prices to make sure an S&S item's price doesn't spike right when it's shipped and charged to me. And what's a good deal at one point is often not a good deal later on, especially since the S&S discount is not as good as in the past. Amazon seems to keep dropping my S&S items that had the bigger discounts, and also seems to drop the lower-cost items that were nice to have to round a shipment out to the 5 items to get the extra discount (no more fels naptha bars). That said, I still do get some items S&S, like Lara bars, some granolas we like, Earth Friendly Oxo Brite, Mychelle SunShield, Emergen-C, some dog chews. I used to get fels naptha, Bob's Red Mill gluten free rolled oats, and some other things that Amazon dropped from S&S.

[mommylamb]

I finally added Clif Z bars and got them in January an then low and behold they have been oos since.

I looked into getting Z bars from Amazon a while back, and at least at that point, they were way more expensive there than they are at Costco. Like nearly twice the price.