Is Amazon Prime worth it to Hawaii?

[terracore]

Unfortunately they don't do frozen or refrigerated items curbside, but they do offer delivery.

Since I posted, this has changed. If you select curbside pickup and select a time, you can get pretty much anything in the store brought out to the car including produce, frozen items, etc.

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Amazon will begin charging a 5% additional fee for fuel and inflation starting April 28th.  If you’re planning a big order soon, you might want to get it in sooner rather than later.  

I’ve been through periods of inflation in the past, and have seen prices rise with the inflation rate factored in.  This is the first time I can recall a company double dipping, that is selling what are probably inflation price adjusted products, then charging a 5% inflation surcharge on top of that.  

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/energy/am...index.html

This fee applies to 3rd party sellers who use amazon's fulfillment services.  So not items sold by Amazon, or items sold and shipped by 3rd party sellers who do not use amazon's fulfillment services.

But regardless, you are right, everything is costing more each time we buy it.  I've been buying things I know I'll need soon for the farm as I'm able sooner rather than later.

Another example, we were paying $25 for a 50# bag of dog food at Walmart, this time it was $28 for 44#.  The manufacturers are trying to "soften the blow" of inflation with shrinkflation, but the "help" is purely psychological.