Samantha T.
fosters and rescues can't afford food now
I used to order 10-12 large bags of kitten food every 2 months for my 100+ neonatal fosters a year from chewy.com. I could get bulk buys of huge sizes, for cheaper per pound than any retail store and get it shipped fast and free to my house. After 5 months of that, I haven't ordered anything from Chewy.com since October. Almost immediately after being "consumed" by Petsmart, chewy.com raised prices on nearly everything I bought....so much so that it is now COMPLETELY IN LINE WITH LOCAL PETSMART PRICES. No coincidence that Petsmart bought its cutthroat competitor, raised prices on its "newly owned" competitor's site and stifled and defeated its competitor in the process. Takeover = removing competition. I loyally support (or have supported) Petsmart through years, after all the wonder work they do for rescue groups and charities.....but NOW I cannot afford to feed my fosters at the rate I used to. That = less lives I can save and that is Petsmart's legacy to me....that, when I used to have an outlet to be able to feed these mouths, I no longer can anymore. Petsmart.....I frigging hate you now. And so do many rescue groups and fosters who operate out of their own pocket. Chewy.com is rapidly losing business, which I believe was Petsmart's goal in the first place. Thanks for shutting down a pipeline we ALL desperately needed to be able to survive on a razor thin budget and negatively....significantly negatively....impacting people everywhere. If you think this will drive more business to your Petsmart.com site or brick and mortar stores, think again. We will just find another pipeline that we can afford and we can access bulk buys from....hopefully one that is safe.....considering that we ALL considered Chewy.com to be safe....and some of these other websites i.e. from China, we can't trust them. here's praying we can order safe, nutritious food in bulk and quickly get it to our houses without being pillaged for shipping. My 6 week old babies lives are at stake

