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Their Prime Pantry service is grouping shipments together regardless of the guaranteed delivery date, which means that your order arrives on the latest date amo

Their Prime Pantry service is grouping shipments together regardless of the guaranteed delivery date, which means that your order arrives on the latest date among the advertised delivery dates for items in your cart. This is recent behavior and not a function of order preferences. I have placed three orders that were grouped together (send order as one shipment) despite having selected the earlier Prime delivery option. This started on the same day that I received an order that was broken up (ship as available), which is what usually happens with Prime Pantry orders to my address. In other words, my Prime orders make me think that Amazon is experiencing a massive ordering surge, and is grouping items together in an atypical way because they want to reduce the shipping strain.

tracker1 7y ago
Possible... Amazon is probably seeing higher than typical sales of items they probably don't do high volumes of and are trying to manage that logistical issue as best as possible. People are starting to get just a little nuts on these things... Shouldn't need to stock up months of stuff... a few weeks of food and water with some rice and beans and/or lentils and lard as backup staple items for core items with other canned goods. I, personally, cannot handle legumes and not really a fan of grains... that said, having enough hand sanitizer for a year is a bit nuts. Having more food than you will cycle through in a regular time-frame will only serve to add undue pressure to short term supplies because of over-stocking up... then the relief may not come, or can kill the other end of the line, or increase tainted supply. Panic just isn't a good idea.
- JoeAltmaier 7y ago
  It's a tragedy-of-the-commons thing? You don't get any, there won't be any to have in a little while.
  - forkexec 7y ago
    Hand sanitizer going for $50, $100, $200 is what hoarding hath wrought. Luckily, I found a mom-and-pop etailer in CT that sold me 8x 32 oz 70% for $5 each with free shipping. (My mom, I, her neighbors and her church needed some.)
forkexec 7y ago
Doubtful because I bought a large monthly Pantry order yesterday that will arrive tomorrow. It may have more to do with the distance of various warehouses stocking certain items. I've ordered before where it splits up the order into different shipments that arrive on different days. Like I said in the item text, the product category in question is completely sold out (except for questionable, expensive imports) and won't be in-stock for another week or two, which will be firmly inside the pandemic acceleration period. Instead, I went with several cases of UHT milk in 8 oz containers that were good and cheap. Powdered milk has the added costs of desiccation, whereas UHT is more/less fancy pasteurization.

tracker1 7y ago

Possible... Amazon is probably seeing higher than typical sales of items they probably don't do high volumes of and are trying to manage that logistical issue as best as possible. People are starting to get just a little nuts on these things... Shouldn't need to stock up months of stuff... a few weeks of food and water with some rice and beans and/or lentils and lard as backup staple items for core items with other canned goods. I, personally, cannot handle legumes and not really a fan of grains... that said, having enough hand sanitizer for a year is a bit nuts. Having more food than you will cycle through in a regular time-frame will only serve to add undue pressure to short term supplies because of over-stocking up... then the relief may not come, or can kill the other end of the line, or increase tainted supply. Panic just isn't a good idea.

JoeAltmaier 7y ago
It's a tragedy-of-the-commons thing? You don't get any, there won't be any to have in a little while.
- forkexec 7y ago
  Hand sanitizer going for $50, $100, $200 is what hoarding hath wrought. Luckily, I found a mom-and-pop etailer in CT that sold me 8x 32 oz 70% for $5 each with free shipping. (My mom, I, her neighbors and her church needed some.)

forkexec 7y ago

Doubtful because I bought a large monthly Pantry order yesterday that will arrive tomorrow. It may have more to do with the distance of various warehouses stocking certain items. I've ordered before where it splits up the order into different shipments that arrive on different days. Like I said in the item text, the product category in question is completely sold out (except for questionable, expensive imports) and won't be in-stock for another week or two, which will be firmly inside the pandemic acceleration period. Instead, I went with several cases of UHT milk in 8 oz containers that were good and cheap. Powdered milk has the added costs of desiccation, whereas UHT is more/less fancy pasteurization.