Chewy.com ships prescription cat food in two days for free. It's free shipping if you spend more than $49 (easy with prescription food...) or sign up for auto-delivery (which also gets you 5% off). They also have excellent customer service, easy to use website, and great prices. Auto-delivery is stupid convenient too since my cats eat exactly the same amount each day so my usage is very constant.
I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer. I didn't even know about it until I got an AMEX offer for them a few years ago.
Amazon "free" shipping seems very costly to me amortized unless you impulse order a whole bunch of cheap stuff very often. Paying for upgraded shipping on an as-needed basis seems like a better value. Or simply reduce consumption...
Can confirm. Chewie also handles subscription deliveries in a much more predictable way than Amazon. Amazon monthly deliveries occur on unpredictable dates (+- 5-7 days). Chewie schedules a shipment on a particular date and sends you an email before the shipment in case you want to make changes.
EDIT: Chewie's prices are lower too. So it is possible to compete with Amazon if you're focused. I do wonder why Amazon is so bad at stuff like this though. Chewie's procedures seem to be the "obvious" way to do things from the customer's perspective.
For scheduled monthly deliveries, Amazon does not notify you of any price change. In one instance, there was a 30% price increase month-to-month, and I just happened to notice it out of sheer luck. The same product did not change prices on Chewie.
Thank goodness chewie.com redirects to Chewy.com -- the discrepancy between your comment (which says "Chewie" five times) and your parent's (which says "Chewy" once) was worrying me.
I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer. I didn't even know about it until I got an AMEX offer for them a few years ago.
Amazon "free" shipping seems very costly to me amortized unless you impulse order a whole bunch of cheap stuff very often. Paying for upgraded shipping on an as-needed basis seems like a better value. Or simply reduce consumption...
You're also comparing apples to oranges.