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Black Raspberry is my favorite ice cream flavor to this very day thanks to Miss Plum’s

It was located at 599 Commercial St. in Rockport, where Penn Bay Veterinary Associates is now located (and I happen to know that veterinarian Dr Bjorn Lee who practices there now was a childhood patron of Miss Plum’s)

I would go there with my parents or sometimes with friends after soccer matches

I remeber that kids used to have their birthday parties there and there was a local magician that would regularly perform at them. 

They had a little outdoor yard as well as indoor seating(maybe) but I don’t remember actually going inside. Instead I remember ordering and being served at the outdoor window.

Was the ice cream made there on the premises? I am guessing it was.

A magical place

Does anyone have photos of the exterior or interior from long ago that they would like to share?

Does anyone know who owned and ran it?

If the past owners ever read this I just want to say thanks for the wonderful childhood memories.

Let’s hear your Miss Plum’s memories if you’ve got them.

With Chewy you typically save either 35% on auto ship items if it’s your first time ordering an eligible auto ship item, although that savings can be as high as 50% and is set by the brand

or 5% on auto ship items if this is the second or later time that you have received that item through autoship

I am betting what most people don’t pay attention to is that in the terms and condition for AutoShip individual brands limit the first time autoship savings to typically $20 although they can raise the cap to as high as $50

There apparently is no savings cap on Brands when you are receiving the 5% recurrent AutoShip savings

When I first wrote this post, I was under the impression that the $20 cap applied to the savings for first time subscribe and save items in the order as a whole And that this applied to the 5% savings as well and that seems to be what most people on the internet thought as well.

However, according to the people at Chewy that savings cap whether it’s $20 or $40 or $50 only applies to one specific brand of products in your order and there is no savings cap for products receiving the 5% discount.

If you are intending to order enough first time subscribe and save items from one particular brand it is possible to avoid the brand cap for first time subscribe and save savings that you would otherwise trigger by simply breaking up your larger order into smaller multiple AutoShip orders

So let’s say, for example you had a large order that included multiple first time autoship items from one brand that was enforcing a $20 savings cap for which you could have potentially save $21-$40 through the autoship discounts if that $20 cap did not exist

What you can easily do is break that larger order up into two separate AutoShip orders and then get up to the $20 maximum on each of those orders thereby saving up to twice as much money.

You do need to take into account that free shipping is only for orders of $49 or more

So this advice is not going to apply to everybody

If you’re a person who could potentially break up your larger AutoShip orders into smaller AutoShip orders with each order being at least $49 or more then you could potentially save money by having multiple smaller AutoShip orders

Of course this also depends on your ordering enough products of one brand through first tome auto ship in order to potentially go over that $20-$50 cap at least once if not multiple times.

I called Chewy and asked about this, and there’s no rule against having multiple auto ship dates

You just need to figure out if your first time AutoShip orders are hitting that $20-$50 cap and if they are hitting that cap if you could break them up into multiple smaller autoship orders while still meeting the $49 before taxes free shipping requirement for each order

And keep in mind that you can always cancel AutoShip on an item at any time without penalty

One of the reasons companies like AutoShip orders is because they’re counting on a percentage of people forgetting about the fact that they have things on autoship or at least some of the things that they have on autoship which ends up wirh them purchasing more products than they might have otherwise.

So don’t forget

Order an item on AutoShip just once and then immediately cancel it in order to get the 35%-50% discount.

There are so many different types of dog food and cat food and dog treats, and cat treats that you could end up ordering a lot of food and treats with a 35%-50% discount on all of it assuming that your pets are tolerant of eating food from a rotating variety of brands and in a variety of flavors

I want to add in the end here that $20 is 35% of $57.14 so if you are placing an order entirely made up of first time subscribe and save orders where all items are receiving the 35% discount and are looking to hit the typical $20 max savings then you are definitely going to hit the $49 free shipping threshold as well.

It’s worth reading the comments below, because they help to further make sense of how to save the most money .

If you’re placing a subscribe and save order with entirely first time subscribe and save items all from the same brand which are all getting the 35% discount then that order should fall between $49, in order to get the free shipping, and $57.14, in order to not go past the rypical $20 savings cap.

Of course you could have $57.14 worth of first time subscribe and save products from two separate brands using the typical 35% off $20 cap scheme for first time subscribe and save items and save a total of $40 in that one order

Your goal in general is to Spend at least $49 in total on each order to get the free shipping while not going over the savings cap of typically $20 nut all the way up to $50 for any brand.

P.S.

You will see better savings for first time subscribe and save orders if you browse the Chewy website through your personal device like your mobile phone or tablet rather than from a desktop computer.

Chewy assumes that pretty much everybody has a smart phone, but that people who are also able to afford a desktop computer come from higher socioeconomic classes, and therefore offer them lesser discounts.

It’s a real shitty way to price things and it’s a stepping stone towards even more heinous pricing practices such as pricing products based on purchased knowledge of individual consumers, often obtained and sold unethically like someone’s credit report or how much they make at their job, or their medical history etc.

P.P.S.

In general Chewy discount codes and subscribe and save savings can all stack.

So say there was a site wide discount where any orders over $50 save $15 and there is
are also specific item discounts for some of the items in your order, say something like “save five dollars on this item with this code”, those two type of discount codes should stack with each other as well as stacking with your subscribe and save discounts.

All of those discounts should also stack with any discount codes you get from the physical mail flyer or the email flyer (You should be receiving both. The Physical mail flyer is sent out quarterly and I believe the email flyer is sent out every month or more).

If you have trouble stacking any codes and or savings together on the website, just call Chewy customer service and let them know and they will do it for you . They are really good that way.

P.P.P.S.

By the way, other pet supply companies like Petsmart and Petco also offer generous discounts on first time subscribe and save orders .

They might offer a large discount the first time you subscribe and save to any particular item or they might only offer their largest subscribe and save discounts the first time your account places it’s very first subscribe and save order. You will need to look into the discounts and how they work for each company.

Just one more way to save a little more money .

P.P.P.P.S.

Chewy sometimes has a promotion running, using the code STOCKUP, If you spend $100 or more in one order on eligible purchases, Chewy will send you a $30 gift card

Each account can receive a maximum of three $30 gift cards using that promotion

Not eligible as part of your purchase are gift cards themselves, prescription purchases, and some major brands like Purina

This is a great way to save 30% on items that you’ve already used the 35% first time subscribe and save discount on

This promotion apparently used to run all the time, but now according to people commenting on this post it shifted over into running for set periods of time several times a year

And any time you’re going to place an order on Chewy in general it’s worth searching online and/or asking an AI Chatbot about what current promotional codes are available

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TLDR:

When placing an order for an item for the first time through subscribe and save the very first order of that item is often heavily discounted.

It’s the brand of the item itself that sets the discount.

Keep in mind that not all items participate in subscribe and save but for the ones that do you most typically see a 35% discount for your first subscribe and save order for that item with a 20% savings cap total for that order for items of that brand.

Brands can set the first time subscribe and save percentage savings all the way up to 50% and can raise the savings cap for first time subscribe and save items from that one brand in that one particular order all the way up to $50 But a 35% savings with a $20 savings cap is the most typical.

If you have a lot of first time subscribe and save items in one order from the same brand, you could potentially avoid that savings cap by simply breaking up those items into separate orders.

Just be sure that all your orders are for at least $49 before taxes so you trigger free shipping assuming that you’re not part of the Chewy plus member program already Since that includes free shipping on all orders

Most people aren’t paying attention to the savings cap set by the brand and just assume that they’re getting all of the advertised subscribe and save savings but in reality, they might not.

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