Not sure Amazon Prime membership is a good deal for you? Will you really interact with the site enough to make the $10.99 a month cost pay off — especially if you’re patient enough not to need immediate delivery? (Fast and sometimes free shipping is one of Prime’s big selling points.)
But beyond streaming music and movies and other Amazon Prime benefits, if you consider Amazon for your everyday needs, the savings start to add up fast. Deals on your repeating “pantry” items from Amazon PrimePantry — stuff from deodorant to kitchen cleaning items, snacks to Q-Tips, coffee to pet food to shampoo — can take a chunky bite out of your $10.99 outlay. (Or $99 a year, if you go the annual route — $8.25 a month.) Amazon offers 20% coupons on many items — a typical Amazon PrimePantry holiday deal today gives 25% off Frosted Flakes, for example, saving almost a dollar per box. And since these are items you tend to repeat buy, the savings continue to take a bite out of your monthly Amazon Prime member costs. Amazon is giving away free Amazon Prime trials here.
