Costco adds options to Instacart delivery offering
Costco Wholesale Corp. is expanding the ways customers can obtain delivery of their purchases via Instacart.
The wholesale retail giant is providing additional services through sameday.costco.com, its e-commerce platform based on Instacart. These include a no-rush delivery feature enabling customers to schedule orders hours or days in advance and earn additional savings by being flexible with their delivery window.
In addition, for customers who need items faster, a new priority delivery offering lets them order delivery in as fast as 30 minutes. Costco has been providing curbside pickup at select stores in partnership with Instacart since 2021. The retailer initially began collaborating with Instacart to offer same-day delivery from stores in the U.S. and Canada in 2020.
Headquartered in Issaquah, Wash., Costco currently operates 905 warehouses, including 624 in the United States. Based in San Francisco, Instacart partners with more than 1,800 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from nearly 100,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace.
Instacart makes budget cookbook shoppable
Instacart is also partnering with well-being and productivity company Thrive Global and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan to make the Thive Global Cookbook shoppable.
Leveraging the Instacart Developer Platform, a publicly available API program enables third parties to integrate the functionality of Instacart inside their websites and apps, to make every cookbook recipe instantly become a shoppable grocery list.
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Instacart’s partnership with Thrive Global is part of a broader initiative by Thrive Global and its philanthropic arm, the Thrive Global Foundation, in partnership with Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, to make nutritious, budget-friendly meals more accessible in underserved communities.
"Food is a big part of our mission at Thrive Global," said Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global. "It’s one of five daily behaviors we focus on — along with sleep, movement, managing stress and connecting with others — to improve our health. Our daily behaviors are all connected. What we eat affects everything else — our sleep, our stress, how much we move, and how we feel."
