What is the smallest price difference that would make you purchase from Amazon instead of the local supermarket?

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Cadburys drinking chocolate (500g) is £4.15 on Amazon and £4.50 in supermarkets.
Is that enough to justify using Amazon?
I would probably buy two and I do live in a city so the Amazon van will be coming to our street, every day, anyway.
Is 35p (or 70p for two) worth it?

Not sure what you are saying

I use Amazon lots

I wouldn’t think of it that way, I don’t really look at prices down to the penny like that. Amazon for convenience, I never pop into the supermarket like that.

In reality I don’t buy food on Amazon, I Deliveroo from co-op. But out of your options I’d choose Amazon unless I needed hot chocolate NOW or unless it was like a fiver more expensive (ie, extortionate).

I’ll take any price saving on Amazon over going to the supermarket. Far too many times have I been to the supermarket determined to only buy bread [insert preferred item] and come out having spent a fortune.

DH and I call it the £30 loaf of bread 😝

The increase and increase of self serve tills!

Please don't use Amazon regardless. They are a major contributor to the enshittification of everything: treat staff and suppliers like crap, trashing the planet, destroying small business.

I wouldn't even think to check this. The only grocery things I buy on Amazon are where we tend to go through loads and only like the branded items - then the saving is worth it. Or when I need to make the total up to reach the min spend for free delivery since we don't have prime. Then I put something expensive like dishwasher liquid into the order.

I buy anything we can from Amazon. They’re quick, reliable and never any issues with returns. Shopping in town is busy, there’s no parking, they never have full ranges of products/sizes, customer service is non-existent - they’ve ruined it for themselves.

I buy a lot online (not just Amazon) as it's convenient, not everything I want is actually available in physical shops and I struggle to carry shopping home.
But for hot chocolate - I'd just wait for my next Iceland order and order it then.
I wouldn't order hot chocolate and just hot chocolate from Amazon.
If you were that desperate for some and you live in a city there will be a Londis/Coop/Little Tesco/corner shop etc within minutes of where you live.

For me it would be about €5.

I don't use Amazon at all anymore. I'd rather pay a bit more and buy less stuff from other retailers than contribute to Bezos' shittification of the world

I do buy online though, and have regular weekly grocery deliveries.

I've never bought from amazon, never will.

I buy a lot on Amazon.

Last time I went to buy a few items I had to traipse around multiple shops and none of them had any stock.

Ordered online instead. Reliable, have what I need and don’t have to go anywhere.

I don't buy anything on Amazon unless it is a specific thing I can't get from main shops. I especially wouldn't ever buy food from them.

If I buy something, I also ensure it isn't made in China.

To add, when I buy on-line, and I do, as others say it's quick, easy, reliable etc, I still go to the UK main shops, or even better, try to find smaller independent shops that also do on-line.

This morning I bought a very specific box of Christmas decorations, a rip-stop repair kit for my winter coat, and some silicone pot covers, all from Amazon. Two out of three of these things are to help me repair something or reduce waste overall. They will all be delivered to my house in one small package no doubt.

Where could I realistically walk, get public transport or drive/park to where I could get all these things reliably, relatively cheaply and in close proximity to each other?

As much as I dislike some of Amazon's business practices, it can't be beaten in many ways. And a lot of shops have spoiled it for themselves.

Why wouldn’t you? I use Amazon all the time -excellent value:service/delivery

They’re literally all owned by the same shareholders at the end of the day so it means nothing anymore.

I actually don't think of buying food from Amazon as the only times I've thought of doing so they aren't cheaper or there are comments about the expiry date of the product so I don't bother.

However I do buy plenty of computer/mobile phone accessories e.g. cables from and random small items from Amazon. I don't buy chargers and things I can get easily get from the nearby DIY stores from them though.

I tend to send my online stuff to a pick up point e.g. local corner shop, convenience store so they are delivering and picking up more than my package(s).

Amazon keep increasing the minimum purchase to qualify for free delivery, so I buy much less often these days. I certainly wouldn't use Prime.

Lots of small businesses only exist because of Amazon. They use "fulfilled by Amazon" where their goods are sent directly to Amazon warehouses who manage the stocks, deal with the orders, deal with packing and delivery etc. Lots of small businesses simply couldn't do all that themselves for the price they have to pay Amazon. The customer won't know that their goods have been bought from a small business as it's all under the "Amazon" name, hence the name of the service "Fulfilled by Amazon". Obviously Amazon charge for this service, but like I say, for small businesses that can often be cheaper than doing their own stock management, warehouse rental, staffing, etc.

Nope never use Amazon, never will.

I buy organic seeds, spices and almond butter from Amazon because you can buy bigger packets, supermarket spice jars are tiny.

I always select a product from a ‘small business’ with the house logo even if it costs a bit more.

Two things make me buy from Amazon: price and convenience. I can think at 11pm 'oh I need packing tape' and boom it's there within 24 hours (or sometimes same day). The driving to my local shop is just too much effort (and it's not a one man band, I'm talking a big chain).
Also many many small independent retailers sell through Amazon @Summerhillsquare. Agree they don't treat some staff well but not sure how well other big suppliers treat theirs.

I'd buy online at same price, even a little more sometimes. For example fruit and vegetables that are priced per item rather than by weight and it's cheaper to go to the shops, but I also have to count the cost to my body in pain and exhaustion from going to the shops so I try not to go if I can help it.

I personally wouldn’t buy food on Amazon, I don’t even really like using supermarket online delivery, I prefer to get food items in person.
I only use Amazon for items I just can’t get elsewhere - which recently has been Persil bio colour washing powder.

But thinking about price difference, would I go to Tesco, say, for cheaper hot chocolate if I could still get it in my normal supermarket but it cost more?
For 70p, probably not.
If it was double the price in my normal supermarket, I might stock up when I was next passing Tesco, but I wouldn’t make a special trip.