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Originally Posted by Passacaglia
Has anyone used Thrive Market? My mom gifted me a subscription for Hanukkah and I'm just getting around to using it. It's look like it's a $60 per year membership, just so I can get access to stuff that's also overpriced? I'm trying to figure out what I can buy that would make this worth it.
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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I randomly googled the subject since I'd never heard of Thrive until this post.
Based on some message board reading, it's only reasonably competitive categories are baby products (food, wipes, etc) and name brand packaged/convenience organic foods. Most posters commented about how Costco and even Target were often cheaper on many items in all other categories and within 10% or so on just about anything.
In the same apparent niche some expressed a preference for something called Azure(?), which apparently has better selection & pricing on things like produce
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That's about what I found. Also a lot of comments that it's only worth anything if you don't have a good source of organic/granola/healthy foods near you.
None of that is me -- my kids are 15, 13, and 13, so I'm way past baby products, and I live 8 minutes from a Whole Foods, 7 minutes from a Trader Joe's, and 2 minutes from a food co-op.
I am lazy, so the fact that they ship you the stuff is appealing. So I ordered some snacks, figuring I'll give them a try and use my "gift" (even though I'm probably having to pay more for each item than I could have if I bought it at other places). Turns out they ALSO decided that I want to have this same stuff shipped to me once a month, so a month later I got an email saying that they just sent me more. Great.