Amazon launched $12 Sample Box for Dogs (food and treats)

Amazon appears to be loving the Sample Boxes idea, because they have launched a brand new one, these one offering treats and food for dogs. Now the puppies can really wait by the door for their very own Amazon package 🙂

As before, these offers are restricted to Prime members only. The promotion works just like the other sample boxes.

  1. Buy the $12 Sample Box – you pay full price
  2. you receive the sample box – I believe it has only one shipping delivery speed, you can’t change it
  3. one week after your $12 box ships, Amazon will post a $12 promotional credit to your Amazon account. They will send you an email informing you so
  4. once the credit is in your account, you can use it towards the purchase of eligible dog food products. Over 110 items are eligible as of the time of writing. You cannot use the credit on any Amazon purchase. Only these participating products which are often the brands you get in the Sample box
  5. the promotional credit has an expiration credit, so pay attention to that. You can use it in multiple transactions, you don’t have to use it all at once
July 17, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

Starbucks After 2pm DASH returns July 18-24 (2017)

Starbucks wants, once again, to encourage customers to visit more often in the afternoon, so if you are participating in their Rewards program, check your emails or the app for an offer to manually join a new “After 2pm DASH” promotion. You earn bonus stars depending on how many purchases you make after 2pm local time between July 18-24 in 2017.

You must first click the “JOIN” button in the email or touch the appropriate thing in their app (if the offer is offered through it ~ I haven’t checked). Just like previous times this had been offered, you earn the most bang for your buck at the 6+ visits tier, so if you are at the 4 visit tier, make sure you make a couple more purchases to essentially double your bonus!

July 17, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

New Amazon K-Cups Sample Box for $8

Your Prime membership is hard at work with a brand new K-Cups Sample Box! You pay $8 and you get a box of various K-Cups from Peet’s, Brooklyn, Green Mountain, and more. You will receive a minimum of seven K-Cups in your sample box.

After you receive your Sample Box, a credit of $8 will be automatically added to your Amazon account. Amazon will notify you by email that the credit is in your account. Then you can use that $8 credit to make a purchase from these 100+ eligible K-Cups from a various companies.

While the Sample Box is all coffee, the redemption of your $8 credit has more flexibility. In addition to coffee, there’s also various teas and hot cocoa and such.

Strategically it’s a good idea to check the redemption options first, make sure there’s at least one or two agreeable items, and only then commit to buying the Sample Box. Otherwise you may end up buying things you don’t really want 🙂

PS: as with previous offers, this is restricted to PRIME members only.

July 13, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

Friday 1-2pm Local Time: Free 12oz Tall Iced Tea Infusion

If you have flexibility with your lunch schedule on Friday July 14 (2017), and if you are gonna be near a Starbucks store, you can score a FREE 12 oz (Tall size in Starbucks speak) Iced Tea Infusion. These are new drinks, a blend of iced tea with slightly sweetened summer-y flavors (peach, pineapple, strawberry, etc). All you have to do is show up in store between 1-2pm local time. If you have multiple stores near by, no one stops you from visiting them all 🙂

July 11, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

25c Pineapple with AmazonFRESH order

Amazon is making a push for AmazonFRESH as well during Prime Day 2017. As we previously mentioned, you can get a 90-day free trial using Alexa, and a $25 off your first $100+ order, among other offers over there.

Now they are …sweetening things (pun intended) with a 25c Pineapple offer. There is no catch to the 25c price itself, but in order to get the pineapple you must needs:

1) be an AmazonFresh member, which means be a Prime member
2) place an order. Orders over $40 get you free shipping, so most people will shoot for a big order otherwise the shipping fee will defeat the free pineapple 🙂

July 8, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With:

25% off select Nature Valley and Lara Bars with Prime Coupon

Nom-nom if you are a Prime member! You membership is hard at work with a new grocery clip-on coupon. Select nutritional bars from Nature Valley and Lara Bar are eligible for a 25% off clip-on coupon. The coupon is on the current price, which can change at any time, but given current prices, it makes for some pretty good deals. For example, a 16-pack of Lara Bars for under $12.

The coupon is good for regular purchases and also for “Subscribe and Save”. Any eligible products will show this promotion on their individual product page. This will only work if Amazon actual is the seller, so pay attention to the listing, so you add to cart Amazon’s own offer, not marketplace sellers.

The promotion expires on Tuesday July 11 at 11:59pm pacific, or earlier for any bars that sell out and can no longer be ordered before the coupon expiration.

I am definitely scooping up a Lara Bar 16-packs. Now I have to decide whether to make it a bigger order and take advantage of some of the Add-On deals or not 🙂

July 8, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,

AmazonFresh Doorbuster: $5 for 1lb of Salmon

AmazonFRESH has a doorbuster too. You can get one pound (16 ounces) of Salmon for just $5 through AmazonFRESH. A Prime membership, along with an AmazonFRESH subscription or Free Trial is needed for you to buy this.

NOTE: per two of the customer reviews there, this is farm-raised salmon.

July 6, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

AmazonFRESH: $25 off your first $100+ order

You don’t need ALEXA for this offer, everyone (who is a Prime member) can use this offer. Coupon code FRESH25 gets you $25 off your first order of $100 at Amazon FRESH, Amazon’s fresh grocery delivery service.

You have plenty of time to take advantage of this offer, it expires September 30 (2017) per the terms and conditions over there. Be sure to read them before ordering!

NOTE: AmazonFRESH is only available in some zipcodes, and a Prime membership is a prerequisite in an AmazonFRESH subscription!

July 6, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

Alexa Deal: Score 90-Day Free Trial to Amazon FRESH

Prime Day may be officially starting July 10 at 6pm pacific time, but Amazon has already launched a number of offers on the Prime Day website. One of them is an ALEXA offer, meaning you have to have an Amazon hardware device that is supports Alexa voice ordering.

If you do, and if you are a Prime member (or want to sign-up for a new membership), then you can use ALEXA to start a 90-Day Free Trial to Amazon FRESH. This is Amazon’s fresh groceries to your door service that typically costs $15 per month. It is a month to month service, so if you cancel before the free trial ends, you won’t be charged a monthly fee.

Note however that Amazon FRESH is only available in some regions ~ namely, where Amazon has facilities that can handle fresh food and has the infrastructure for deliveries.

July 6, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

July 7-9: $5 Rotisserie Chicken at Lucky’s

Don’t feel like cooking during the weekend? If you live near a Lucky’s store, you can outsource your cooking thanks to their weekend sale, running July 7-9 (2017) that can get you their 30 oz rotisserie chicken for $5 instead of their usual price of $7. This is a reasonable price, competitive with the everyday regular price of $6.50 for a 3 lb chicken at Smart and Final. You can also add a pound or two of cherries for $2 per pound 🙂

July 5, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With:

20% off all Teas at the Peet’s website with coupon

If you like to buy tea from the Peet’s Coffee website, until Sunday night July 9 in 2017, you can get 20% off the teas they sell there (loose leaf or tea bags) using coupon TEAPARTY. The coupon is only good for their website, not their B&M stores. Other exclusions apply (not gift subscriptions or gift cards).

This is a good time if you are a fan of the “legacy” Peets teas as they have four of them currently in-stock, including Ser Pumphrey’s Blend and the good old Scottish Breakfast and the smooth Lion Mountain Keemun.

July 4, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,

Pay $40, Get $50 Cold Stone Creamery Gift Card

For a limited time only, coupon code ICECREAM10 gets you $10 off towards the purchase of a $50 Cold Stone Creamery gift card at amazon.com. It is ice cream season after all. The price will drop during the Checkout process, the last step before you actually place the order. If it doesn’t drop by $10, it either means you have not select the correct gift card or amount, OR the promotion expired.

June 30, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,

Trader Joe deal: Pint of Humboldt Organic Coffee Chip Ice Cream for $2

If you are near a Trader Joe, your local store may have or may be getting this in! An ice cream of hippies! One pint of organic coffee (with chocolate chip) ice cream from Humboldt is in their freezer for $2. That’s right, yummy organic ice cream for just $2. Less than what you pay for a single scoop at most ice cream stores (and the chain stores are not organic).

I just inhaled the whole pint, so I’m typing this on a sugar and coffee high 🙂 The whole pint is 800 calories (four servings of 200 calories). If you eat the whole pint, that’s 12g of protein, 48% cholesterol, just 8% sodium, but 120% saturated fats. The percentages are based on the RDA standard.

By the time I got home, the top edges were melting, making it taste like a frappucino of sorts. As the name suggests, there are chocolate chips inside but they are not hard or big. They won’t slow down the inhaling 🙂

As you may recall, last year Trader Joe had another special buy from the same ice cream company, they had those $3 rectangular (and reusable) tubs in four flavors (but none of them was coffee). Perhaps this one is closer in flavor to their “Mint Chip”, with coffee replacing the mint 🙂

Note that even though this is a very milky ice cream, it also contains some soy (soybean oil and soy lecithin).

Since this is a frozen ice cream, it is safe from the hoards of eBay and Amazon resellers that scoop a lot of things up from Trader Joe stores 🙂

June 29, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,

2pm to 5pm Local Time: BOGO Iced Espresso Drinks at Starbucks (June 27 – July 2)

There is no coupon, no activation, and no rewards membership required for this offer. It is running automatically at Starbucks stores, between June 27 until the close of business on July 2nd in 2017. Between the hours of 2-5pm local time, they are running a BOGO (Buy One, Get One FREE) on Iced Espresso drinks.

Any combination and sizes work, but you pay for the most expensive one, so in situations like these, it’s a good idea to match the drinks to make the most of your money 🙂 Any ICED drink that includes espresso inside is eligible. You can also ask for decaf instead.

June 27, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With:

Afternoon Dash returns at Starbucks June 27 until July 3rd in 2017

The weather is heating up, and so are the Bonus Stars promotions at Starbucks! A brand new just rolled out by email, and if you had been selected by their Big Computers, you have to first manually “Join the Dash” before you’ll earn the bonus points.

This is yet another variation of the After 2pm (local time) Dash. If you make five purchases after 2pm local time, between June 27 and the close of business on July 3 in 2017, you will get 50 bonus stars, in addition to the regular stars from your purchase. Or if you make seven or more, you’ll earn 100 bonus stars. So two extra purchases double your bonus. In other words, if you reach five, you might as well go the extra mile and reach seven.

You only earn this once, so whether you make seven or 70 purchases during this promotional period, you’ll only earn 100 Bonus Stars 🙂

Don’t forget that today (Monday June 26) is a Surprise Double Stars Day.

Also, if you have a Chase Freedom credit card that participates in the 5% Quarterly 5% Rewards, you may want to hold off reloading your Starbucks account until July 1st, because the July 1 through September 30 quarter includes Restaurants and historically Starbucks had been earning 5% through Chase!

June 26, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,