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Subscription box services can satisfy everyone from pets to beer snobs

Sure, shopping out in the real world can be fun, but who hasn’t dreamed of the luxurious ease of having a team of experts at their beck and call to choose all the right items with none of the mental heavy lifting?

In the last five years, the internet has seen an explosion in the number of automated delivery services that assemble boxes of items handpicked for their subscribers. Record, wine and book of the month clubs are nothing new, but this new wave of subscription services leverages the ubiquity of the internet to cater to the needs of everyone from lovers of vino and fans of fancy socks to avid readers and armchair travelers.

Hundreds of such programs are now available, but here’s a handy guide to a few of the more popular offerings in a variety of categories.

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