Thrive Market Review

I put together a completely honest Thrive Market Review for you! Covering what Thrive Market costs, my favorite items and is Thrive Market worth it?

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After seeing tons of people talk about Thrive Market, I decided it was time to give it a try and see if it was worth the hype! If you’ve been curious about the service, I’m answering all your questions below + offering you a deal on the service!

Update: I’ve been using Thrive Market for over a year and we still love it! 

Thrive Market Coupon:

Before we get started, if you’re intrigued and want to try Thrive Market for yourself – you can get a risk free 30 day trial and $20 in FREE shopping credits when you try Thrive.

What is Thrive Market?

Thrive Market is an online marketplace that offers tons of natural/organic food, wine, household, and bath/body products. They claim that many of their products are up to 50% off retail prices, and that they offer wholesale prices. It basically is like Costco, meets Whole Foods.. but online! 

You can filter and shop by diet (keto, organic, whole30, paleo, etc) which is super helpful, and they offer brand names as well as their own brand of products.

Thrive Market does have a membership fee, which I’m sharing all the details about below.

Thrive Market Cost:

Thrive Market Does have a membership cost, but I think it pretty much pays for itself if you use it at least once a month. I know I personally would spend at least $5 a month just in gas driving to/from the grocery store, and that doesn’t even factor in the money you save due to the low cost/sales on Thrive.

Here’s the breakdown of the costs. You can click here to try Thrive and get those shopping credits!

1-month – $9.95/month
3-month – $6.65/month (billed at $19.95) – Get a $10 FREE shopping credit using this link.
1-year – $5/month (billed at $59.95) Get a $20 FREE shopping credit using this link.

If you are a low income family, veteran, teacher or student you can apply for a free membership. 

If you’re concerned about the Thrive Market fee, they explain it in detail here.

Can you cancel Thrive Market?  Yes! Cancel for any reason within the first 30 days of your membership for a full refund. Future charges can be cancelled anytime prior to your membership charge date.

If you want to try it out for free for 30 days click here. You can see if you like it/if it would be worth the cost to you!

My Initial Thoughts on Thrive Market:

Upon first shopping at Thrive Market – I tried to stick to buying their brand of products rather than ‘brand name’ products. I spent roughly $100 and got the following items:

I think that where you save the most money on Thrive Market are through the name brand products though.. especially if you order a lot of them.

The only brand name products I ordered were Chomps + this Desert Essence Toothpaste, which were cheaper than anywhere else I’ve purchased them!

Don’t get me wrong though, the Thrive Market brand products are also great! In fact, after using the service for a few months – it’s mainly what I buy! 

Thrive Market also offers meat/seafood and wine. I haven’t tried the wine, but preferred ButcherBox’s meat to Thrive Market’s meat.

Is Thrive Market Worth the Cost?

Personally, I think it is. Thrive Market has a cool feature where they show you how much you’ve saved over the year by shopping with them. If you don’t at least save the amount of your membership, they’ll credit you! It’s pretty easy to meet that though.

After using Thrive for over a year, here’s what I think. We order one time a month. If you order over $49 shipping is free. The way I see it… I’d spend $5 a month in gas driving to/from the grocery store at least. Then there is the fact that everything is discounted. Between the brand name products I love that are discounted, and the fact that the Thrive brand of products is much cheaper than many store brands – I’m saving even more.

I think if you’re someone that buys a lot of convenience products (think dressings, prepackaged snacks, sauces, etc.) you’ll save even more than I probably do using Thrive. If you’re someone who shops at Whole Foods a lot – this also will be great for you!

Thrive Market Favorites:

There are a few staples from Thrive that we always get. Here are our favorites.

Pantry Staples:

• Drinks:Tea,
• Grains: Brown Rice, Pastas, WonderNoodles, Brown Rice Noodles
• Spices, Honey, Seeds
• Snacks/Treats : Turkey Sticks, AlterEco Chocolate, Plantain Chips, Cashew Butter Filled Chocolate
• Canned Goods: Pumpkin, Coconut Milk, Tomato Paste
• Collagen Peptides
• Olive Oil
• Fish Sauce
• Cashew butter

Personal Care/Cleaning:

• Soap, Tampons, Toothpaste, Conditioner
• Dishwasher Pods, All Purpose Spray, Laundry Powder

My favorite thing from my first Thrive Market order is the collagen peptides. They were $24.99 compared to the brand I normally use, which is $43. As far as I can tell they taste identical and mix into my coffee perfectly! Here’s the link to them

You’ll love Thrive Market if you:

I think most people will enjoy Thrive Market, but it will be especially helpful if you fall into any of these categories:

• Live far away from specialty grocers / whole foods. If you can’t find certain brands/products in stores – this will be helpful for you
• Buy a lot of ‘specialty’ products (specific dressings, sauces, canned goods, etc)
• Short on time (Who doesn’t love grocery delivery!?)
• Hate going to the grocery stores
• Want to save some $$ but aren’t willing to go crazy watching sales/going to multiple stores

If that sounds like you, click here to get a free 30 day trial and a shopping credit off your first order with Thrive Market.

Here are some of the other things we like about Thrive Market –

Pros of Thrive Market:

These are some of our favorite things about Thrive Market.

• Organic – If you’re into buying all organic, they have good prices for organic products, and a wide variety of products to choose from
• Can sort by diet – This is huge if you are new to eating paleo, keto, Whole30, etc. It is super easy to filter by diet!
• They give back – With every membership purchased they give a membership to someone in need
• Freebies/Coupons – They offer freebies once you get to a certain threshold in your cart. They also are always having huge sales which they email you about!
• Free delivery when you spend over $49 (which is pretty easy to do!)
• Variety – I like that there is everything from food to cleaning products

If you want to get started with Thrive Market click here for a free 30 day trial and a shopping credit your first order!

Honestly, I don’t have many negative things to say about Thrive…but here are the cons I could come up with.

Cons of Thrive Market:

• Membership cost – Obviously I would love if this were free, but I think the cost of membership is low enough that it’s worth doing! (And if you don’t save at least the cost of your membership they will refund it to you!)
• No produce – You still have to go to the grocery store for fresh veggies/fruit.

You all know I love a good bargain.. so I tried to do the math on comparing the costs of Thrive to other stores for you.

Thrive Market Cost Comparison vs Stores

It’s hard to do a direct comparison between Thrive Market and other stores – but here’s what I found.

• Thrive Market vs Lucky Vitamin– For most items, Thrive Market was usually 10-20 cents cheaper. Depending on how often you’re ordering – I’m not sure if you really are saving with Thrive because of the cost of membership. There is no membership with Lucky Vitamin, so when you add up the 10-20 cents per item, you’d have to be buying at least 600 products a year to offset the cost.
• Thrive Market vs VitaCost – People love VitaCost but I’ve never been a fan. While they have decent prices, they have very little variety. Some of my favorite brands like Chomps + Tessemae’s were not on VitaCost
• Thrive Market vs Aldi – Aldi seemed to win on most things I compared it to (chicken stock, salsa, pasta, etc). However, Aldi had a very limited selection compared to Thrive in terms of healthy/organic food.
• Thrive Market vs Whole Foods – Thrive Market was the clear winner. Whole Foods is great, but their prices are definitely higher. For most pantry staples, Thrive was cheaper.
• Thrive Market vs Costco – Thrive Market definitely has more variety and more organic pantry options than Costco has. It was hard to do a true cost comparison to Costco because of this. However – at Costco you can get produce, which is huge for me. 

Many of you were big fans of Thrive Market, and I asked what some of your favorites were. Here’s what I heard from you:

Best Things to get from Thrive Market:

Truthfully, what’s best will depend on what you need/use in your own kitchen/pantry. These are my favorite things to roder!

• spices
• coconut flour/almond flour
• canned goods like tomatoes/tuna/etc
• nuts
• oils
• coconut aminos (I’m including this but also want to tell you they’re 1/2 the price at TJ’s)
• baking ingredients
• Some name brands like Primal Kitchen, Purely Elizabeth + Simple Mills. 

 

Tips for ordering on Thrive Market:

• Fill up your cart as you think of things -Whenever I run low on an item – I just add it to my Thrive Market cart. When I hit the $49 threshold for free shipping, I place my order
• Watch the sales/freebies! Sometimes they have sales for specific brands, or they’ll give away certain products if you spend a certain amount (I got two free boxes of our favorite crackers the other day because it was the deal of the day!) If you can wait/hold off – keep things in your cart until they have a sale that you like or a freebie 🙂
• Think ahead– Usually it takes 3-5 days for my Thrive order to come, so just plan ahead so you can have what you need in time.
• Look through your previously ordered section for easy shopping – I order a lot of the same things on Thrive so it’s nice to look under the previously ordered section and quickly add things to my cart.

Overall, I recommend Thrive Market. I’m looking forward to continuing ordering from them and also trying some of their meat/wine options! There is a ton of variety on their site + the products have all been great so far.

If you want to try Thrive market you can get 30 days for free and a shopping credit off your first order with this link.

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