A magazine is no longer the only thing you can subscribe to. Today, subscription services allow you to receive timely packages including everything from wine to rare vinyl records. As millennials continue to prioritize convenience, these services become more promising.

Story by Kennedy Williams

Subscriptions are essential to daily routines, from using Netflix and Spotify to listening to New York Times podcasts and theSkimm. According to Marshall Cohen, chief industry analyst at the NPD Group, modern consumers “are very comfortable with buying online, with buying unknown commodities, with buying products and then letting someone else select it for [them].” Millennials are a key part of the demographic that supports subscription services. Studies show that 92 percent of millennials subscribe to a service. Their high use of technology is a catalyst for engaging with both digital and physical subscription services. Convenience is the main factor that draws this generation in.

The subscription services below will help you stay in your dorm room or apartment for as long as you would like. No more trips to Trader Joe’s (unless you randomly have a craving for Cookie Butter) or realizing that you forgot your bags for HEB while in the checkout lane.

Winc

If you want to expand your palette, try Winc. Each month, you receive a box containing at least four bottles of wine. This Wine club is meant to make trying a new wine fun instead of daunting. Your days of picking a wine based on the design of the label are over.

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Care/Of

Being a college student and keeping track of taking vitamins is a battle and the vitamins usually lose. That is where Care/Of steps in. The Care/Of regimen is based on your lifestyle and health condition. After taking a survey, you receive a personalized list of recommended vitamins with thorough explanations. Next, small envelopes of vitamins are sent to you for daily consumption. Gummy vitamins may or may not be included.

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Hello Fresh

Sometimes meal prepping is last on your to-do list. One of many food subscription boxes, Hello Fresh, provides pre-measured ingredients and recipes so cooking is less of a chore. They offer vegetarian and classic boxes that can feed two or four people up to four times a week.

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Vinyl Me, Please

Music lovers rejoice. Shopping for new records can be intimidating, especially if you want to add some variety. Vinyl Me, Please seeks to help music listeners diversify their catalogs by offering limited edition re-released records, records of the month and music from up-and-coming artists. Past releases include Anderson Paak’s “Venice,” Moses Sumney’s “Aromanticism” and St. Vincent’s “MASSEDUCATION.” Check out their archive of records if you need more convincing.

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