Find stores offering last mile delivery

POST /v2/fulfillment/stores/last_mile

This operation lets you to find stores that offer last mile deliveries (LMD) to the customer’s location. In your request, the location can be represented as geographical coordinates, an address, or simply a postal code.

warning

Instacart recommends not searching for stores by postal code alone because the results might not always be accurate.

If you search for stores by address, the operation doesn’t verify whether the address meets all Instacart’s serviceability requirements. For example, even though we don’t deliver to post office boxes, assigning P.O. Box 123 to address_type might still return one or more stores[].

To determine whether an address is serviceable before creating an order, use the Validate user address or List time slots for LMD operations.

The stores[] in the response are sorted by their distance to the customer’s location, from nearest to farthest.

Each store has a set of flags. If a store’s pickup_only flag is true, then it doesn’t offer LMD. If a store allows alcohol deliveries, then its alcohol flag is true. For more information, see Alcohol compliance.

By default, shoppers deliver to addresses that are within 30 minutes of the store location. If long distance delivery is enabled for a store, deliveries can be made to addresses that are between 30 and 60 minutes away. When a store offers this option, the long_distance_delivery flag is set to true. For more information about enabling this option, see Service areas for delivery.

After you select a store, save its location_code because it is a required field in the create LMD order request.

Security

Name	In	Description
Authorization	header	The Authorization header with the bearer token acquired during authentication.

Parameters

None.

Request

Field	Type	Required	Description
find_by	Find_by		The location to use for finding the stores.

Find_by Object

One of the following:

Field	Type	Required	Description
latitude	number		The latitude coordinate.
longitude	number		The longitude coordinate.

or

Field	Type	Required	Description
address_line_1	string		The first address line.
address_line_2	string		The second address line.
address_type	string		The type of address, e.g., "residential".
postal_code	string		The postal/zip code of the address.
city	string		The city or town of the address, e.g., "Chicago".

or

Field	Type	Required	Description
postal_code	string		A zip code or postal code can have numbers and uppercase letters only. Omit spaces. For example: "90210" or "M6K3L5".

Request examples

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://connect.instacart.com/v2/fulfillment/stores/last_mile \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "find_by": {
    "latitude": 1,
    "longitude": 1
  }
}'

Java

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://connect.instacart.com/v2/fulfillment/stores/last_mile")
  .header("Accept", "application/json")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .body("{\n  \"find_by\": {\n    \"latitude\": 1,\n    \"longitude\": 1\n  }\n}")
  .asString();

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("connect.instacart.com")

payload = "{\n  \"find_by\": {\n    \"latitude\": 1,\n    \"longitude\": 1\n  }\n}"

headers = {
    'Accept': "application/json",
    'Content-Type': "application/json",
    'Authorization': "Bearer <token>"
    }

conn.request("POST", "/v2/fulfillment/stores/last_mile", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://connect.instacart.com/v2/fulfillment/stores/last_mile"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"find_by\": {\n    \"latitude\": 1,\n    \"longitude\": 1\n  }\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

Response

Field	Type	Required	Description
stores	Array(Store)		The available stores, sorted by distance to the customer’s location, from nearest to farthest.
is_partial	boolean		Indicates whether the requested postal_code has partial or full coverage. If true, then some addresses in the postal_code are outside one or more of the store’s delivery areas. Therefore, delivery coverage isn’t guaranteed for all addresses. If false, then every address in the postal_code is within all of the store’s delivery areas.

Store Object

Field	Type	Required	Description
name	string		The name of the store.
location_code	string		The store code, which is used in other requests to identify the store.
flags	Flags		Properties of the store.

Flags Object

Field	Type	Required	Description
alcohol	boolean		Whether the store supports alcoholic orders.
pickup	boolean		Whether the store supports pickup orders. When pickup is true, the store supports both pickup and delivery. When pickup is false, the store supports only delivery orders.
pickup_only	boolean		When the pickup flag is true, the pickup_only value indicates whether the store supports delivery in addition to pickup. When pickup_only is false, the store supports delivery. When pickup_only is true, the store doesn't support delivery.
long_distance_delivery	boolean		Whether a delivery from the store will be a long distance delivery.

Response examples

200 Success

200 Stores found by address

{
  "stores": [
    {
      "name": "Test Warehouse Location 600",
      "location_code": "000-33865",
      "flags": {
        "alcohol": false,
        "pickup": true,
        "pickup_only": false,
        "long_distance_delivery": false
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Test Warehouse Location 601",
      "location_code": "000-33873",
      "flags": {
        "alcohol": true,
        "pickup": true,
        "pickup_only": false,
        "long_distance_delivery": true
      }
    }
  ],
  "is_partial": false
}

200 Stores found by coordinates

{
  "stores": [
    {
      "name": "Test Warehouse Location 603",
      "location_code": "000-33896",
      "flags": {
        "alcohol": false,
        "pickup": true,
        "pickup_only": false,
        "long_distance_delivery": false
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Test Warehouse Location 604",
      "location_code": "000-33904",
      "flags": {
        "alcohol": true,
        "pickup": true,
        "pickup_only": false,
        "long_distance_delivery": true
      }
    }
  ],
  "is_partial": false
}

4XX Errors

Error responses return either a single error or multiple errors.

HTTP Code	Cause	Error Message	Error Code	Error Meta
400	No stores found	"Stores not found for the provided request."	1001	Not applicable
400	Postal code not found	"Postal code not found."	1001	{"key":"postal_code"}
400	Malformed find_by object	"value is not valid"	1001	{"key":"find_by"}
400	Missing both postal code and coordinates	"can't be blank"	1001	{"key":"find_by"}