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Instamart teams up with Home Centre to deliver décor and kitchenware in just 10 minutes
MUMBAI: Instant gratification just got a stylish upgrade. In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Instamart has onboarded Home Centre, bringing premium home décor and kitchenware products to India’s quick commerce circuit—with delivery promised in under 10 minutes.
Starting this week, users in Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Gurgaon can browse and order over 120 curated products from Home Centre via the Instamart app. The offering includes a wide array of everyday and aspirational items—from serveware, dining sets, and organisers to table lamps, clocks, and kitchen essentials.
The move marks a significant shift in quick commerce strategy, as Instamart expands beyond daily necessities into lifestyle retail. With over 35,000 products already spanning groceries and electronics, the company is now catering to urban consumers who expect instant access to products that enhance not just their routines but also their homes.
“At Home Centre, we have always placed consumer needs at the core of our product offering”, said Home Centre India CEO Sitaram Kumar. “Our partnership with Instamart represents an important step forward in meeting the demands of today’s fast-moving consumers, delivering faster, smarter service to match their evolving lifestyles”.
Echoing the sentiment, Instamart CEO Amitesh Jha said, “Instamart is committed to expanding the boundaries of quick commerce. This partnership with Home Centre is a step towards delivering not just essentials, but high-quality lifestyle products on demand—instantly enhancing the homes and lives of our users”.
This isn’t Instamart’s first foray into the lifestyle category. Two years ago, it began offering soft furnishings and décor items, with blankets becoming one of the platform’s most searched products in 2023. Since then, its lifestyle catalogue has grown into the thousands.
The Home Centre partnership represents a new chapter—one where design meets delivery speed, and where your next living room upgrade is only 10 minutes away.
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Instamart and Duolingo launch street spell check campaign for Instaprint
Duo the owl fixes signboard typos across cities to showcase instant printing.
MUMBAI: If spelling mistakes had a sworn enemy, it might just be a bright green owl with a printer. Instamart has teamed up with language learning platform Duolingo for a quirky nationwide campaign that turns everyday spelling errors into a public spectacle while promoting its instant printing service, InstaPrint. The playful activation takes aim at the many misspelled shop boards and public signs scattered across Indian streets. From “saloons” that promise haircuts rather than drinks to menus and posters peppered with punctuation mishaps, the campaign sends Duolingo’s mascot Duo on a mission to restore linguistic order.
Armed with Instamart’s instant printing feature, Duo prints corrected versions of the mistakes on the spot and pastes them over the originals. The result is a series of humorous street interventions that have quickly begun circulating on social media.
Photos and videos of the grammar correcting owl have been widely shared online, with amused users reacting to the unexpected spell check patrol. One user joked, “Ab ayega na maza bhidu,” capturing the internet’s delight at the unusual campaign.
Behind the humour lies a practical message. The activation is designed to showcase the capabilities of Instaprint, Instamart’s printing service that allows users to print documents and posters almost instantly.
The company says the feature is meant for everyday needs such as printing resumes, visa documents or last minute posters without the usual scramble to locate a print shop.
Instamart introduced Instaprint in 2025 across select metropolitan cities including Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi. The service allows users to order printed materials directly through the platform, extending the quick commerce model beyond groceries and household essentials.
By combining Duolingo’s famously persistent owl with India’s street level spelling quirks, the campaign taps into the internet’s long running fascination with grammar mistakes while demonstrating a real world use case for instant printing.
After all, in a world full of typos, sometimes what you really need is a quick printer and a very determined language teacher.
