If you are stuck at home and need food, your only option is home delivery. But, if you think you can order up a box of food from Amazon, think again. This past weekend I tried to find food items that I could actually use to make a meal and found the choices very weak. I did find a few canned items and added them to my cart. In order to get free shipping with Amazon Pantry your order has to be over $35. By the time I found enough food items worth putting in my cart, at least an hour had past. During checkout I discovered that several items that I had in my cart were no longer available. This put me below the $35 mark, so I had to go back and look for more items. When I was ready to checkout again, I found that more items were no longer in stock. I finally gave up. It's like being in a grocery store and someone grabs an item from your cart and runs to the checkout.
I went back and tried again today. This time there was a limit of one per item. Without being able to buy multiples, it was nearly impossible to find enough food items worth buying. Plus, the delivery time is now a two week wait. Amazon needs to put a timer on each shopping cart. If I have the item in my cart someone shouldn't be able to buy it before I get a chance to checkout. You can add items to a "Save for Later" list. This will make it easier to add the in-stock items to your cart for quicker checkout. But, you are not going to see any deals or new items on the site. Times like this they need to offer a survival pack that has a week's worth of food for two people. It should include canned and dried goods, but no snacks or condiments. I haven't been to my local grocery store in about a week. I just hope it is not the same story there. Most local chain grocery stores offer online ordering with curbside pickup. I'm sure that option will become very popular now.
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