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It appears that Amazon has made significant changes to Subscribe & Save. In the past, once my monthly delivery has shipped, I was then able to order new S&S items for the following month (on my regular delivery date), with a discount of up to 15% . Now the option to order for the following month appears to be gone, as is the 15% S&S discount on the first delivery of each subscription. Has anyone else noticed these changes, and has anyone seen any definitive announcement from Amazon on exactly what has changed with S&S?
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12-14-2024 at 05:54 AM.
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It appears that Amazon has made significant changes to Subscribe & Save. In the past, once my monthly delivery has shipped, I was then able to order new S&S items for the following month (on my regular delivery date), with a discount of up to 15% . Now the option to order for the following month appears to be gone, as is the 15% S&S discount on the first delivery of each subscription. Has anyone else noticed these changes, and has anyone seen any definitive announcement from Amazon on exactly what has changed with S&S?
The 15% discount is not available on some things. Some have no more than 5% S&S savings, regardless of whether you hit the 5-item minimum. I have seen other items with a cap of 10% maximum savings.

One significant change as far as the default shipping date. Now for the first few S&S items you want to add after your latest shipment comes, in the S&S box they default to standard shipping dates with 5% off unless you manually click on "change" on the right side of the product page. See att...

It also seems that once you've added 2-3 items to your next shipment, they tend to default to the next monthly shipping date for your S&S. You have to watch them every time now because it is not a pattern you can count on.

I don't recall any announcement or email notice about the default date algorithm situation. It threw me off until I figured it out.

I believe there has been some discussion here about the percentage caps they reduced for certain items, but don't recall an announcement from Amazon.
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12-14-2024 at 07:02 AM.
12-14-2024 at 07:02 AM.
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The 15% discount is not available on some things. Some have no more than 5% S&S savings, regardless of whether you hit the 5-item minimum. I have seen other items with a cap of 10% maximum savings.

One significant change as far as the default shipping date. Now for the first few S&S items you want to add after your latest shipment comes, in the S&S box they default to standard shipping dates with 5% off unless you manually click on "change" on the right side of the product page. See att...

It also seems that once you've added 2-3 items to your next shipment, they tend to default to the next monthly shipping date for your S&S. You have to watch them every time now because it is not a pattern you can count on.

I don't recall any announcement or email notice about the default date algorithm situation. It threw me off until I figured it out.

I believe there has been some discussion here about the percentage caps they reduced for certain items, but don't recall an announcement from Amazon.
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Thanks for the tips, that was helpful. It looks like they've reduced the 15% discount on certain items that I've been buying every month down to just 5%.
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02-09-2025 at 09:25 PM.
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Quote from rc9238 :
Thanks for the tips, that was helpful. It looks like they've reduced the 15% discount on certain items that I've been buying every month down to just 5%.

Yeah, also if you change the delivery date in the delivery month, they will update the price to match the current price of the item.

I ordered several items with S&S on black Friday, but I had to change the delivery date the next month, and EVERYTHING that I ordered on Black Friday lost its discount... I was really frustrated.

I advise you to cancel every item you order after it has delivered, because I guarantee the price will update. You can also just check the order price before it is delivered via S&S the next month. I feel like a lot of people don't realize this happens, and Amazon is making bank off it.
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