Postmates is a mobile application through which customers order products, mainly food, and receive them at their homes. After an update in the Postmates application, an order placed by the customer can be tracked easily. Presently, Postmates deliver more than just food, like groceries or personal items. You can get all that you need within 30 minutes. Let’s know ‘Does Postmates deliver groceries?’
The new feature is known as Postmates Fresh. The market competitors of Postmates Fresh are Instacart and Amazon Fresh. Yes, Postmates does deliver groceries now. For those who are not familiar with Postmates, it is a mobile application. One can order food, groceries, or other personalized items on Postmates. And whatever you order gets delivered to your doorstep within 30 minutes. Yes! You read that right. Any grocery item you place gets delivered within 30 minutes.
How to order groceries on Postmates?
Ordering groceries on Postmates is similar to ordering food from local restaurants.
1. Open the Postmates mobile application.
2. Select the Grocery option.
3. Search for the nearest grocery store.
4. All the grocery items available in the store and delivered by Postmates will appear on the screen.
5. Add the Grocery products to the cart and proceed with payment.
The delivery service is available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
Postmates delivery charges:
Postmates delivery charges are comparatively lower than its competitors. Postmates charges $3.99 on every delivery. As a second option, it also offers a monthly charge of $9.99. If you go with a monthly charge, no matter how many orders you place you will have to pay just $9.99.
The per delivery charge remains the same, no matter you order one lemon or 50 grocery bags. Postmates also have yearly fixed charges. The yearly delivery charge is $99.99.The delivery rates of Postmates are comparatively low than Amazon fresh.Amazon charges $15 monthly, for grocery delivery.
Postmates grocery delivery time :
Postmates guarantees grocery delivery at your doorstep within 30 minutes of placing the order. This is impressive. Amazon Fresh and Instacart usually take 2-3 hours to deliver groceries. And Postmates guarantees to deliver groceries almost an hour or two before its competitors. Such measures are helping Postmates to gain popularity and grow its market base.
Grocery stores available on Postmates:
Postmates has made deals with everyone’s favorite and trustworthy grocery stores. You can find your nearest grocery store on Postmates and order on it without leaving your home.
Postmates may deliver groceries before 30 minutes but it never takes more than 30 minutes. This will save you so much time.
Postmates also gives an option to schedule your delivery. You can set the time of day when you want your groceries to be delivered. Postmates will make the delivery according to the time you decide while placing the order.
The main market competitors of Postmates are Amazon Fresh, Instcart, Doordash, Grubhub, and Uber eats. Uber eats is a sister company of Postmates as both are owned by Uber.
Postmates grocery delivery service is available in the following states of USA:
- Arizona
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Northern California
- Southern California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Rhode Island
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Vermont
- Utah
- Tennessee
- Pennsylvania
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Montana
- Missouri
- Mississippi
An overview: Postmates
Postmates is a subsidiary branch of Uber. It is a quick commerce company that offers local delivery service of food and other goods. Postmates was founded on May 1, 2011, by Sam Street, Sean Plaice, and Bastian Lahmann. The headquarters of Postmates is located in San Francisco, California, USA. It only serves in a few selected cities of the USA. It delivers products like food, other local goods, and also provides mobile application and website services.
Conclusion:
An American company, Uber is the parent company of Postmates. It employs 5341 people and Postmates provides its services in around 2940 cities of the USA. Postmates also makes delivery of Alcohol but only in a few selected cities and areas of the USA. Postmates has made a recent update in the application and it is starting a new service, grocery delivery. This will be the new feature of the Postmates mobile application. Now onwards one can order even groceries on Postmates. Not in a mood to go out grocery shopping? Postmates is there for you
