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Default Canned pumpkin shortage?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:22:13 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:

>On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 08:55:41 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:
>
>>On 4/5/2016 12:39 AM, sf wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:25:13 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cheapest price is Amazon.com. Important if feeding
>>>> dogs and cats with it, is that it be 100% (halloween type) pumpkin with
>>>> nothing added. It's 2.50 a can here but I am getting it at 1.67 a can
>>>> in lots of 12 every 6 months. I can always add an earlier load if I
>>>> need it sooner by adjusting the date. Free shipping.
>>>
>>> Your shipping isn't free. You're paying $100 a year for it.

>>
>>It's still free shipping over $35, no?
>>
>>nancy

>
>I think they recently raised it to $49, which at today's prices is
>very easy to reach. However depending on ones shopping habits Amazon
>Prime is a bargain... it costs a whole lot more than $100 a year to
>drive all over from store to store looking to buy things plus dealing
>with traffic and parking, and there's ones time (time is money), and
>driving means taking risks, there are few risks shopping from ones
>desk chair. Shopping on line makes it easy to check prices, and one
>never needs to settle, one gets the exact item they want, in the color
>and size they want... and no schlepping, heavy and over size items
>come right to your door. It's difficult for me to comprehend people
>complaining about shipping costs when they don't complain about the
>cost of their own transportation.


Amen to all that.
Janet US