I recently discovered Instacart is able to deliver Costco and…
OMFG
GAME CHANGER. STUFF is CHEAP and at VOLUME.
Granted, not Commercial Foodservice Company cheap, but for home use this is fucken ferpect.
- Got 20 lb Basmati rice for like, 20 bucks.
- 6 lb of pasta elbows for *checks notes* 6 bucks
- Eggs are stupid cheap, pick how many you want.
- Bleach? I got me a lot of bleach.
- EVOO! A gallon of it is 15 bucks!
- Canola oil! 6 qt are 10 bucks!
I got some more things to round out the pantry for pasta production but for getting all of this stuff delivered? I can probably order once a month and 80% of my grocery shopping is done right there and then.
Now, they don’t have everything at the store available. They don’t have kosher salt (well they do but it’s the Kirkland brand. I prefer Morton or Diamond). The meat and fish selection is somewhat limited but they got the basics on there. Produce is good but I’d rather mosey down to the neighborhood coop for that.
Again, for me the angle here is the delivery; I bike everywhere and carrying all the stuff on my last order on my bike rack would probably require at least 5 trips, so the 8.99 delivery charge is totally worth it. This isn’t a promoted post (ugh) but there are many use cases for exactly this kind of thing at this volume, which is right in between “let’s pick up groceries on the way home” and “I need to open a sysco/us foods/reinhart account”:
- People with more than two kids. Kids eat a fucken hell of a lot. You ate a lot when you were a kid, you just don’t remember it.
- Disabled/sick people.
- People who literally don’t have the time, like when you’re working 2 full-time jobs. Good luck finding time to cook, much less to buy the groceries.
- People without cars, like myself.
Anyway, click on this here referral link so I get a fucken discount on my next order and you get cheap groceries. Everyone wins.