Costco is rolling out nationwide delivery through DoorDash and Uber Eats, giving millions of members app-based access to bulk groceries, electronics, and Kirkland Signature products without setting foot in a warehouse.
DoorDash announced its first-ever nationwide Costco delivery partnership in the United States on Thursday, offering more than 4,000 products through the app. Members must link their Costco membership to their DoorDash account before placing an order. The platform had already been delivering Costco goods in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Iceland, and Puerto Rico before expanding stateside.
One day earlier, Uber Eats revealed it had expanded its own Costco delivery footprint from 17 states to 47, covering nearly 600 warehouses. Costco and Uber Eats first partnered in the U.S. in 2024, when service was limited to a fraction of the country. The expansion makes Uber Eats the broader of the two platforms by state count, at least for now.
Both deals land as Costco pushes an aggressive brick-and-mortar expansion of its own. The company plans to open 14 new warehouses across the U.S. and Canada before the end of 2026. CEO Ron Vachris has previously said Costco expects to open more than 30 warehouses a year over the next five to ten years, with roughly half in the United States. Costco currently operates more than 900 warehouses worldwide, including more than 640 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Mike Goldblatt, DoorDash's vice president of enterprise partnerships, framed the deal as a direct response to customer demand. Goldblatt said:
"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."
Uber is sweetening its pitch with cash incentives. Eligible Costco members can get 50 percent off an annual Uber One membership for their first year and 20 percent off in subsequent years. Consumers who purchase a Costco membership through Uber Eats can receive 30 percent off their first eligible Costco order. For a limited time, Costco is also selling $100 Uber and Uber Eats gift cards for $79.99 at participating locations and online.
Andrew Macdonald, Uber's president and chief operating officer, cast the partnership as proof of the platform's scale:
"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."
Before DoorDash and Uber Eats entered the picture, Instacart was the primary app-based delivery option for Costco shoppers. That arrangement has been in place for close to a decade. The arrival of two major competitors changes the landscape for Instacart, which now faces pressure from platforms with deep pockets and large existing user bases eager to capture grocery delivery market share.
Costco itself has been making smaller consumer-facing moves alongside the delivery push. Earlier this year, the retailer let customers swap the traditional fountain soda in its iconic $1.50 hot dog combo for a bottle of Kirkland Signature water, without raising the price that has held steady for more than four decades.
Not every Kirkland product has stayed cheap. This month, Costco began rationing Kirkland Signature synthetic motor oil, limiting shoppers to two units every seven days. The price of a 10-quart pack surged to $57.99, up from roughly $30 previously, a near-doubling that reflects broader supply pressures on the product.
Costco's 14 planned new warehouses span a wide geographic range. Locations slated for openings before the end of 2026 include sites in Missouri, Texas, New York, Kansas, California, Idaho, Arizona, Virginia, and Wisconsin, along with several in Canada. That pace fits the trajectory Vachris has outlined: more than 30 new warehouses a year for the next five to ten years, roughly split between domestic and international locations.
The delivery expansion and the warehouse buildout together signal a company betting that American consumers want Costco access on every front, in the car, on the couch, or through an app. Whether the economics of delivering 36-packs of paper towels through gig-worker networks pencil out long-term is a question neither DoorDash nor Uber addressed in their announcements. Three states remain outside the Uber Eats coverage map, and it is unclear whether DoorDash's rollout covers every Costco location from day one.
Free markets work best when companies compete to serve customers rather than waiting for a government program to do it for them. Costco, DoorDash, and Uber just gave a clinic in how that is supposed to look.