Introduction
Amazon is a company which is involved with technological inventions. Amazon has gained popularity by its home website ‘amazon.com’; which an website for purchasing products. The website includes all possible products which is sold by various different companies, it can be a multinational company or an small individual business. Now the question is Does Amazon Own Instacart?. Read further to know more about it.
It also includes delivery of the product after purchase. AmazonAmazon as a multinational company deals with e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon was first founded in the year 1994, in the month of July by its founder Jeff Bezos. The headquarter of amazon is in Seattle Washington, United States.
Where amazon being a global platform from surfing online for any product to buying them from the comfort of homes; Instacart is another online platform which deals with groceries and consumable products.
Is Instacart owned by Amazon?
Instacart is an grocery delivering mobile app which enables one to log in into their app and order the groceries they prefer. Instacart works with retail stores such as Walmart, M&M stores and many more well known supermarkets for their online ordering. Instacart as of 2021 as 30 and more retail stores in partnership for pick up and delivery of groceries. Talking about the ownership, No is the answer. Instacart is not owned by Amazon. Many of the users do believe that company runs under Amazon because Amazon is a huge company and has a lot of subsidiaries.
What is Instacart?
Instacart is an online platform used in forms of mobile app or website to order groceries and edibles which is delivered to the location of customers interest.
One can buy vegetables, fruits, bakery items, spices, seasoning, condiments such as ketchup, pickles, mayonnaise and so on, snacks, ice cream, beverages and many more household required items.
Who owns Instacart?
Instacart was founded in the year 2021 by a group of 3. Apoorva Mehta, Max Mullen, Brandon Leonardo being the three founders of Instacart; Its headquarters being in California, U.S. Instacart expanded their business to all of U.S in the year 2016 by first introducing this online platform in Chicago and from there to all of U.S and to United Kingdom as well.
Why do people think that Instacart is owned by Amazon?
Instacart was an independent start up which bloomed and expanded due to its unique and new concept of home groceries shopping and home delivery. But people believed that Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon came up with the idea. Thid is because:-
- One of the founder of Instacart Apoorva Mehta, an Indian who moved to Canada was a former employee of Amazon till the year 2010. This bringing false conception that Instacart is owned by Amazon.
- With the fact being Apoorva was an former employee of Amazon, the introduction of Whole Foods by amazon in the year of 2017, also fuelled the misconception.
- Whole Foods also provides grocery and consumables shopping and delivery which is owned by Amazon. AmazonAmazon introduced amazon fresh which puts in order for your groceries in stores soon after introducing whole foods.
How to make a purchase from Instacart?
The user of the app can log into the app, chose the product of their choice which be picked up by one of the stores near the address of delivery and delivered to the user’s desired address. The mobile app uses all forms of online payment such as credit or debit card payment and applications using UPI or mobile banking for payment.
One can also ask for pick up at store, where the mobile application places order and pick up the groceries for you and delivers it to the user outside the store in their comfort of cars. This gained popularity post pandemic as many public citizens were taking precautions and avoiding crowded places.
For orders of 35$ or above, delivery charges of 3$ begin. For a purchase of more than 100$, the delivery charge is free
Conclusion
Amazon and instacart provide similar services and hence are misunderstood to be the same. But both the companies are owned by different people and are different services all together.
With similarity to both the companies having similar service, the owner of instacart being an previous employee of Amazon creates the confusion of instacart being amazon’s.
Instacart and Amazon both have gained popularity during the pandemic of Covid-19 and quarantine guidelines. Instacart solely deals with groceries whereas amazon has many services.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does instacart deliver furniture’s ?
No, Instacart is a platform for online purchase and delivery of groceries and household products.
- Do Instacart take delivery charges?
Yes, instacart takes delivery charges of 3$ for a 5km radius.
- Is whole foods an Instacart store?
No, whole food is owned by Amazon where as instacart is an independent start-up.
- Does amazon deliver groceries?
Yes, Amazon owns wholefood which provides delivery and pick up of groceries.
