Online Purchasing of Consumer Staple items

[Octotat]

I currently am ordering a few items directly from companies to get better quality, and lower price.  These are really consumer or food staples that really ring up a grocery bill.

Razors - I'm currently ordering from www.harrys.com for my razors.  These are really decent quality, and very low price compared to the grocery store.  I haven' used Dollar Shave Club, but that might be a good option as well.  I have found that with Harrys, stick with the razors and avoid their creams and aftershave as they are very expensive.

Coffee - I buy French Roast Sumatra beans from www.deansbeans.com   .   These roasters are out of Utah, super free trade, organic, yada yada yada.  I don't care about all that too much, but at 9.99 per pound plus shipping, it's a great price on excellent coffee.  I buy 6 - 8 bags at a time to lower shipping costs. They have coffee from all around the world, in lots of roasts as well.

I'm looking for similar high quality routine staple purchases that really lower cost.  I'm thinking detergents, cleaners, more expensive non-perishables, etc.

[ketchup]

I buy DE razor blades from Amazon for about $10/yr.  I get the non-fancy pretty-good pre-ground coffee at Costco for ~$4.70/lb.

Just going through last year's Amazon orders, we buy bulk consumables like shampoo, dark chocolate, dog supplements, motor oil, coconut aminos, matcha, sunscreen, fish sauce, beef sticks, light bulbs, kelp noodles, AA batteries, cheesecloth, copy paper, and bubble mailers all on Amazon.

I'd much rather order online than buy at a store for most things anyway, and it usually comes out cheaper unless it's something cheap and heavy (good luck buying windshield wiper fluid online for a reasonable price).

[PKate]

I love the idea of this thread.  I would love to find more ways to reduce my costs and have it delivered to my door. 

I also use Amazon quite a bit.  I find prices swing quite a bit so I keep stuff in my cart and wait till the price drops before I buy.  For example my favorite Enjoy Life chocolate chips price swings from $4.95 to $2.18 per 9 oz bag so I bought 12 when they were $2.18 each.   

While not a staple for everyone I use an insane number of canning jars every year.  I use them for selling honey from my bee hives so I always need more.   I have found that Ball/Kerr's website runs great sales over the summer and you can get 12 packs of jars for between $5 and $7 dollars depend on size.  Often they combine it with free shipping if you spend X amount of dollars.  https://www.freshpreserving.com/home

[ketchup]

I love the idea of this thread.  I would love to find more ways to reduce my costs and have it delivered to my door. 

I also use Amazon quite a bit.  I find prices swing quite a bit so I keep stuff in my cart and wait till the price drops before I buy.  For example my favorite Enjoy Life chocolate chips price swings from $4.95 to $2.18 per 9 oz bag so I bought 12 when they were $2.18 each.   

https://camelcamelcamel.com/ is your friend.  I have several alerts set up for certain staples that vary in price, so I can strike when the price is best.

[Scandium]

Coffee - I buy French Roast Sumatra beans from www.deansbeans.com   .   These roasters are out of Utah, super free trade, organic, yada yada yada.  I don't care about all that too much, but at 9.99 per pound plus shipping, it's a great price on excellent coffee.  I buy 6 - 8 bags at a time to lower shipping costs. They have coffee from all around the world, in lots of roasts as well.

I'm looking for similar high quality routine staple purchases that really lower cost.  I'm thinking detergents, cleaners, more expensive non-perishables, etc.

I get whatever (decent) that's on sale at the grocery store; 8 o'clock, Seatle's best, Community. For ~$5-6 for 12 oz, which works out to about $7-$8 per pound, but whatever works for you. But how do you store that much coffee so it doesn't loose flavor? Just in the freezer? I've ready different things about best way to store coffee, but no option seem all that great. It will loose flavor almost no matter what.

[Laserjet3051]

Coffee - I buy French Roast Sumatra beans from www.deansbeans.com   .   These roasters are out of Utah, super free trade, organic, yada yada yada.  I don't care about all that too much, but at 9.99 per pound plus shipping, it's a great price on excellent coffee.  I buy 6 - 8 bags at a time to lower shipping costs. They have coffee from all around the world, in lots of roasts as well.

I'm looking for similar high quality routine staple purchases that really lower cost.  I'm thinking detergents, cleaners, more expensive non-perishables, etc.

I get whatever (decent) that's on sale at the grocery store; 8 o'clock, Seatle's best, Community. For ~$5-6 for 12 oz, which works out to about $7-$8 per pound, but whatever works for you. But how do you store that much coffee so it doesn't loose flavor? Just in the freezer? I've ready different things about best way to store coffee, but no option seem all that great. It will loose flavor almost no matter what.

Regarding coffee, I've been routinely getting these $10 off coupons from Staples (min purchase to get offer is $10). So every month, with my new $10 off coupon in hand, I walk into the Staples, buy a 16 oz bag of Starbucks coffee for just under $10, and pay about 35 cents at the register .......for a 16 oz bag of Pikes Place.  In the off month I dont get this coupon, I head over to my local Sprouts or Vons and buy really good coffee on sale for $6.50 - $6.99 per pound. Weighing both purchase strategies, I'm probably paying about $2/lb for great coffee over the whole year.

Definitely way less than OPs $9.99/lb PLUS shipping. lol

[Speedwagon]

I buy DE razor blades from Amazon for about $10/yr.

+1 on the DE razors. a 100 pack of Feather blades on ebay cost me about $20. Takes me forever to get through it, even at 1/week.
And the best part is, the shave is just as good as a 500 blade new disposable razor.

[kimmarg]

While not a staple for everyone I use an insane number of canning jars every year.  I use them for selling honey from my bee hives so I always need more.   I have found that Ball/Kerr's website runs great sales over the summer and you can get 12 packs of jars for between $5 and $7 dollars depend on size.  Often they combine it with free shipping if you spend X amount of dollars.  https://www.freshpreserving.com/home

Have you looked into local beekeeping suppliers? I find honey jars are generally cheaper than mason jars. I can get 1lb plastic jar with squeeze lid (and the 'seal' foil) for $0.35/each.

[Octotat]

I buy DE razor blades from Amazon for about $10/yr.  I get the non-fancy pretty-good pre-ground coffee at Costco for ~$4.70/lb.

Just going through last year's Amazon orders, we buy bulk consumables like shampoo, dark chocolate, dog supplements, motor oil, coconut aminos, matcha, sunscreen, fish sauce, beef sticks, light bulbs, kelp noodles, AA batteries, cheesecloth, copy paper, and bubble mailers all on Amazon.

I'd much rather order online than buy at a store for most things anyway, and it usually comes out cheaper unless it's something cheap and heavy (good luck buying windshield wiper fluid online for a reasonable price).

Interesting to see sunscreen on there.  My company makes sunscreen and we're just starting to sell directly through Amazon.  I can't say what company, but think dog pulling a girl's shorts down

[PKate]

While not a staple for everyone I use an insane number of canning jars every year.  I use them for selling honey from my bee hives so I always need more.   I have found that Ball/Kerr's website runs great sales over the summer and you can get 12 packs of jars for between $5 and $7 dollars depend on size.  Often they combine it with free shipping if you spend X amount of dollars.  https://www.freshpreserving.com/home

Have you looked into local beekeeping suppliers? I find honey jars are generally cheaper than mason jars. I can get 1lb plastic jar with squeeze lid (and the 'seal' foil) for $0.35/each.

Plastic squeeze jars are at least twice that in my area. Since I only have 2 hives  I picked up 12 oz Kerr jars for 4.99 a 12 pack with free shipping. Also I had requests for glass jars and it was the best deal I found that held a pound of honey.    Since we do raw honey with minimal filtration our honey tends to cream on us so squeeze bottles are more of a hassle.  I also do a lot of canning so I never have enough jars.

[schmerna]

I buy DE razor blades from Amazon for about $10/yr.  I get the non-fancy pretty-good pre-ground coffee at Costco for ~$4.70/lb.

Just going through last year's Amazon orders, we buy bulk consumables like shampoo, dark chocolate, dog supplements, motor oil, coconut aminos, matcha, sunscreen, fish sauce, beef sticks, light bulbs, kelp noodles, AA batteries, cheesecloth, copy paper, and bubble mailers all on Amazon.

I'd much rather order online than buy at a store for most things anyway, and it usually comes out cheaper unless it's something cheap and heavy (good luck buying windshield wiper fluid online for a reasonable price).

Interesting to see sunscreen on there.  My company makes sunscreen and we're just starting to sell directly through Amazon.  I can't say what company, but think dog pulling a girl's shorts down

For those of you buying sunscreen, I am able to use my Healthcare Flex Spending to buy sunscreen https://www.fsafeds.com/support/eligibleexpenses

[Gimesalot]

I found a jet.com coupon that gives you a certain amount off the first three orders.  I spent about $200 on my first order and bought a ton of detergent, toothpaste, bulk food etc.  It was a great deal and shipping was free.

[AnnaGrowsAMustache]

Aliexpress. Buy straight from the manufacturer in China. Note that there are all sorts of qualities on this site, so have a good look through the options and read the reviews.

[chicwhitesox1]

love this thread! I use Amazon all the time but if I can get better deals from other sites I would prefer to get from them