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Re:What is Instacart really charging? the breakdown by grandalf on Sunday March 05, 2017 @12:41PM (#13797193)
> Turns out there is a margin, and it is at least 20%, if not much more.

This is not true. In some stores Instacart offers the same as in-store prices, other it does not.

The same is true of anything one buys on Amazon. Low-cost items that ship with Prime shipping are usually marked up a bit, but I order from Amazon (and Instacart) in spite of this because of the convenience offered.

You can pick a basket of goods in Instacart where the percentage is high, but there are many other baskets where the percentage is low.

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Re:What is Instacart really charging? the breakdown by enraged_camel on Sunday March 05, 2017 @12:49PM (#13797242)
Maybe it is based on store. I don't know - and that's the problem. Like I said, Instacart (as far as I could tell at a glance) doesn't make the information easily available. That's the problem.

I did some casual searching and discovered that they supposedly have page (https://www.instacart.com/store/prices) where they list their markups per store, but it doesn't work for me.

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Re:What is Instacart really charging? the breakdown by foota on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:13PM (#13799097)
Why is this such a big deal? It's not like safeway tells you what markup they are charging.
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