Costco is rolling out nationwide delivery through both DoorDash and Uber Eats, giving the warehouse giant's members two new ways to get bulk groceries and household goods without leaving home.
DoorDash announced its first-ever nationwide Costco delivery partnership on Thursday, offering more than 4,000 products, from Kirkland Signature staples to electronics, through its app. Members link their Costco membership to a DoorDash account and order directly. A day earlier, Uber Eats revealed it had expanded its own Costco delivery footprint from 17 states to 47, covering nearly 600 warehouses across the country, the New York Post reported.
The back-to-back announcements amount to a major bet by two of the biggest delivery platforms on the warehouse-club model, and a clear signal that Costco sees home delivery as central to its growth, not a side project.
Mike Goldblatt, DoorDash's vice president of enterprise partnerships, framed the launch as a direct response to customer demand:
"Costco members have been asking for Costco on DoorDash, and today we're delivering. By pairing Costco's quality, value and selection with DoorDash's reach and local delivery network, we're giving members more flexibility in how they shop."
DoorDash had already been delivering Costco orders in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Iceland, and Puerto Rico. The U.S. rollout marks the platform's first nationwide push with the retailer on American soil.
Uber moved first by a day. Andrew Macdonald, Uber's president and chief operating officer, cast the expansion as proof of what his platform can do for large retailers:
"Costco is one of the largest and most trusted retailers in the country for good reason, and our nationwide partnership demonstrates the scale and opportunity Uber can bring to retailers looking to meet more of consumers' everyday shopping needs."
Uber Eats first partnered with Costco in the U.S. in 2024, when delivery covered just 17 states. The jump to 47 states and roughly 600 warehouses is a steep ramp-up in barely a year.
Uber is dangling incentives to pull Costco members onto its platform. Eligible members can get 50 percent off an annual Uber One membership in the first year and 20 percent off in subsequent years. Costco is also selling $100 Uber and Uber Eats gift cards for $79.99 at participating locations and online for a limited time. New customers who buy a Costco membership through Uber Eats can receive 30 percent off their first eligible order.
Those promotions put Uber in direct competition not just with DoorDash but with Instacart, which has handled Costco grocery delivery for nearly a decade. Adding two heavyweight rivals to the mix gives Costco members more options, and gives Costco leverage over all three platforms.
The delivery expansion comes as Costco pushes an aggressive brick-and-mortar growth plan. The company plans to open 14 new warehouses in the U.S. and Canada before the end of 2026, with locations slated for Missouri, Texas, New York, Kansas, California, Idaho, Arizona, Virginia, and Wisconsin. CEO Ron Vachris has said Costco expects to open more than 30 warehouses a year over the next five to ten years, with roughly half in the U.S.
Costco already operates more than 900 warehouses worldwide, including more than 640 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Not everything on the shelves has stayed stable. This month, Costco began rationing its Kirkland Signature synthetic motor oil, two units every seven days per shopper, amid what the company described as a global shortage. The price of the 10-quart pack surged to $57.99, nearly double the roughly $30 it previously fetched. Meanwhile, the retailer's famous $1.50 hot dog combo, unchanged for more than four decades, got a minor tweak earlier this year: customers can now swap the fountain soda for a bottle of Kirkland Signature water at the same price.
Uber's expansion covers 47 of 50 states, but neither the company nor Costco has identified which three states remain without coverage. DoorDash's announcement described its rollout as nationwide without specifying exclusions. Details on delivery fees, markups, and minimum order requirements for either platform were not disclosed in the announcements.
For Costco members, many of them families buying in bulk to stretch a dollar, the convenience is real. Whether the delivery fees and platform markups eat into the savings that draw people to Costco in the first place is a question neither company has answered yet.
Competition lowers prices and expands choices. That is how markets are supposed to work, and it is worth noticing when they actually do.