But for now, consumers are still seeking and downloading its standalone grocery app at record levels. Walmart very recently announced it would merge its grocery delivery service into its main app, as Target has done. On Sunday, Target’s app saw more than 53,100 daily downloads a month ago, it was seeing 25,000+. In fact, the Target app has also broken records for daily downloads, the report found. To some extent, its lower figures could be due to Target’s move to integrate Shipt’s grocery delivery service, which it owns, into its main app. Shipt, though hitting record numbers, saw only 7,285 downloads on Sunday.

But on Sunday, Instacart saw more than 38,500 downloads and Walmart Grocery saw nearly 54,000 downloads, the firm says. Typically, these apps (except for Shipt) see tens of thousands to as many as 20,000+ downloads per day. On Sunday, online grocery apps, including Instacart, Walmart Grocery and Shipt, hit yet another new record for daily downloads for their respective apps, the firm says.Ĭomparing the average daily downloads in February to yesterday (Sunday, March 15), Instacart, Walmart Grocery and Shipt have seen their daily downloads surge by 218%, 160% and 124%, respectively. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the U.S., grocery delivery apps have begun seeing record numbers of daily downloads, according to new data from app store intelligence firm Apptopia.

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