I'm not sold on Amazon Fresh. It's $15/mo ($180/yr) on top of the annual cost for Prime and orders under $50 incur a $10 delivery fee? The selection didn't look all that great either.
My wife and I are within walking distance to a grocery store(probably three grocery stores plus a produce stand if we really wanted to walk like 4 miles round trip.) It's a good way to spend time together, get out, buy as much as we can carry and wander back home. Knowing how to pick out produce, spending time talking to the guy at the meat counter and price comparing with stuff is all good too.
I was thinking of cancelling prime, but it looks like I would lose the 5% back with my Prime Visa and it's hard to tell if slow boat shipping would still be free. I think I have to hit a certain dollar amount with my purchases to qualify? It's been a long time since I didn't have it.
As someone that doesn't see the value in Prime, I think that canceling is a good call.
I think that the regular Amazon visa gives you 3% back (so you're only losing 2%).
Other 5% cards usually have Amazon as a 5% category at least one quarter (discover has this and doubles the points in the first year so you effectively get 10% back for one quarter). BeFrugal also has some things at 5-6% back on Amazon (clothes, Amazon devices, and a few others) but usually you don't get anything back through that portal.
Shipping takes a long time without Prime, but I find that I can usually find stuff for the same price or cheaper at either Walmart or e-bay.
When I go Walmart I use BeFrugal (eBates is probably the same), which offers 3% back at Walmart normally and 8-10% near Black Friday. You can then chain that with their 3% back card or a normal 1.5% back card (for a total "normal" discount of 4.5 - 11.5%). Walmart also gives 2 day shipping on most stuff without requiring an annual fee.
I like Amazon (it's one of the 3 places I usually check when I'm buying stuff), but I find that it's usually not the best option for price and without Prime it's almost always the worst for shipping times (unless I'm ordering something from China on eBay). So, for me buying a Prime membership feels like paying extra for normally higher priced good and get shipping times that are (1) the same as Walmart or (2) slightly faster than eBay.
I would still consider that if I felt like Prime Video could replace Netflix. But, I feel much more comfortable with the Netflix interface which I think (a) does a better job segregating kid friendly content and (2) doesn't let my kids accidentally buy stuff by mashing buttons.