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Costco.com offers its members an Instacart 1 Year Express Membership for $78.99.
I believe it's normally $9.99 per month or $99 for one year if paid upfront.
Features:
- Free Delivery On Instacart.com For Orders Over $35
- Get Your Favorite Costco Items Delivered In As Fast As 1 Hour
- Express Membership Does Not Auto-Renew
- Delivered Via Email
Plus, save up to 5% on every order when you shop same-day delivery at Costco on sameday.costco.com, as compared to non-Instacart-Express Members.
https://www.costco.com/instacart-...95001.html
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From my experience (about a year ago), I found that -- even with an Express discount -- Costco markups varied wildly, and seemed to average around 20% (!). Given a typical Costco tab, that can really add up in a painful way, especially with tip on top.
Interestingly, Instacart doesn't markup Wal-mart stuff at all, so when ordering from them you just pay the delivery fee + service charge + tip.
From my experience (about a year ago), I found that -- even with an Express discount -- Costco markups varied wildly, and seemed to average around 20% (!). Given a typical Costco tab, that can really add up in a painful way, especially with tip on top.
Interestingly, Instacart doesn't markup Wal-mart stuff at all, so when ordering from them you just pay the delivery fee + service charge + tip.
From my experience (about a year ago), I found that -- even with an Express discount -- Costco markups varied wildly, and seemed to average around 20% (!). Given a typical Costco tab, that can really add up in a painful way, especially with tip on top.
Interestingly, Instacart doesn't markup Wal-mart stuff at all, so when ordering from them you just pay the delivery fee + service charge + tip.
The Costco markup on pricing makes it useless for me.
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From my experience (about a year ago), I found that -- even with an Express discount -- Costco markups varied wildly, and seemed to average around 20% (!). Given a typical Costco tab, that can really add up in a painful way, especially with tip on top.
Interestingly, Instacart doesn't markup Wal-mart stuff at all, so when ordering from them you just pay the delivery fee + service charge + tip.
I will say, I was shocked at how inflated the prices were on Instacart when I placed my first few orders. Out of curiosity, I compared a few of my orders to in store prices based on my previous receipts. The biggest difference I saw was nearly 40% when including taxes, fees and tip. I believe it was due to the massive influx of orders and the supply chain issues impacting stores' inventory (every delivery timeslot had a fee associated with it, even with instacart express). I find that it's closer to ~20% markup on average, and I think there are still some items worth buying in bulk from Costco even with the delivery premium. Needless to say, I look forward to the day when I no longer have a need for Instacart.
Edit: I forgot to mention—when I didn't have instacart express, I found that going to Costco.com and clicking same day delivery to shop instacart through their website was actually cheaper than going to instacart directly because the items weren't as marked up (~2-10% difference per item). That was still the case when I first signed up for instacart express, but now it seems that it's changed so it's cheaper to go through the instacart website to shop for Costco items if you have an instacart express membership.
Definitely not worth it for Costco, but some/most stores are not marked up compare to the in-store prices. The main difference, however, is that the weekly ads for the grocery stores are not always matched/reflected on Instacart, so you end up paying regular price sometimes for things that should be on sale .
I mainly use Instacart now for Asian grocery stores that are slightly too far from the house (I'm fortunate enough to have both 99 Ranch and H-Mart available to order from), and Walmart (so I don't have to step into the local Walmart; nothing against Walmart, it's just my closet one is not located in a nice area and is always... "crowded").
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