Amazon offers their "Subscribe and Save" service on many products (not the one linked above, however). Amazon's subscription service provides a continuous stream of many staples such as paper products, toothpaste, tooth brushes, cat food, etc. to my household. It works great.

Aside: I live in Los Angeles and am trying out Amazon Fresh. If anything, Amazon now offers me an almost-confusing multitude of ways to have products delivered to my house. I can Prime things for receipt in two days. I can subscribe and forget. I can Fresh things for next-day delivery. I'm not an Amazon fan boy—many of their services frustrate me in a variety of ways—but they have delivery pretty much mastered versus everyone else.

I moved to Seattle a little over a year ago and was pleased to find out about Amazon Fresh. It's a great service overall, and beats the pants off of FreshDirect in NYC (Though, I personally preferred yummy.com in Venice, CA, who were offering same-day delivery back in '06).

At any rate, I was truly sold on Amazon Fresh the day I started having some issues with my PC. I logged on in hope and ended up ordering a CPU and a Motherboard to be dropped off at my door with my milk and eggs before dawn the next day. Incredible.

Apologies for the tangent, but I wanted to share my review of Fresh [1]. It's a mixed-bag, pun intended.

I laughed at your mix of computer equipment and groceries, but that's exactly it: you can have a wild variety of things delivered as if they were groceries. I was most amused/bemused by the weapons selection.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/amazon-fresh

Razor blades are very compact, though, not like a year's worth of paper towels.

And what if you decide one day to switch to electric?

Go ahead and switch! The razor blades are a sunk cost.

Then you can sell the unused packages of blades on Amazon.

The reason I don't use this is because the "stream" of blades isn't saving me any money, it's costing me more than what a trip to Walmart or Costco will cost (in Canada, at least). For me, this is entirely a cost-based decision. I don't see blades being delivered on a continual basis as a benefit, just puts more pressure on me to use up my existing blades fast (and that's weird).

To each his own, I think this is the ultimate lazy man's service. Get your ass out to the store and when you're back, mow the lawn.

Stream of blades? Maybe if you work at a barbershop. Even if you only get one shave out of a blade (I think most guys will get 3-5), a hundred pack is tiny and will last 1/3 year. For most people, that's at least a year supply.

Unlike shampoo and other bulky disposable products, razors are quite tiny.

> why are you not buying in large bulk and saving?

Although I'm probably not thinking of a few things, I do buy basically every nonperishable in bulk. I buy paper towels, toilet paper, double-edged razor blades, toothpaste, laundry supplies, and shower supplies at most twice a year. It's not that hard as long as you find SKUs that you like and have somewhere to store them (and I live in a tiny San Francisco studio, so most people should have plenty of room).

people don't buy in bulk because then they are stuck with that one product for a long time. I mean really, am I supposed to use last years outdated butt wipes when I know there is a better way to wipe my ass?