The Best Amazon Alternatives for Shopping Online, Including Drew Barrymore’s Go-To for Household Essentials

You can shop by diet, lifestyle or values at Thrive Market, a membership-based online grocery store offering certified organic and non-GMO pantry staples, snacks, frozen foods, skin care, beauty products, baby items, pet food, wine, personal care and more. The Certified B Corporation stocks products for vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo, raw and gluten-free diets as well as items certified by the Environmental Working Group or that meet non-toxic and cruelty-free guidelines. Health-minded parents will particularly love their inventory of healthy snacks that makes packing school lunches a breeze.

Membership starts at $5 per month and you’ll save up to 60 percent off when you subscribe to auto-shipments. We like that you can place one-time orders and get personalized recommendations on new foods and products to try.

For those looking to swap out their kitchen gear and cleaning products with plastic- and toxin-free options, Grove is one of the best Amazon alternatives for refillable home essentials. (Drew Barrymore is an investory and has starred in the company’s campaigns.) Shop over 1,500 plastic-free products across every household category, including kitchen and bathroom cleaners, laundry care, personal wellness, school supplies, home decor and textiles and more.

Grove stocks many brands you’ll find at Target, Walmart and Amazon, such as GreenPan, Alba Botanica, Gir, Arber, If You Care, Badger Balm, Beekeeper’s Naturals, Better Battery Co., Billie, BioBag, FaceTory, Hum Nutrition, Caboo, Dr. Squatch, Dr. Bronner’s, Earth Rated, EcoTools, Hello and many others.

Misfits Market allows you to save up to 30 percent off your weekly grocery bill when you shop “ugly produce” — think organic fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood, dairy and pantry items that don’t look picture perfect but are otherwise perfectly edible. Items might be slightly misshapen, too big or small, a tad bit bruised, past the “sell by” date or simply overstock. Whatever the case, members of Misfits Market help reduce food waste and keep farmers in business.

The company offers a rotating selection of more than 600 sustainably-sourced produce and groceries each week, including packaged foods from brands like Minor Figures, Meadow Reserve, True Story, Essential Baking Co. and others. You’ll get a specific shopping window and Misfits Market will create a personalized cart filled with $35 to $42 worth of groceries (you can add or remove anything). Deliveries arrive weekly on specific days to help reduce carbon emissions, and you can skip, pause or cancel your membership any time. The company will even take back packaging to keep them out of landfills. Its investors include Sound Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary.)

Amazon Luxury Stores is a little-known source for pre-loved designer goods — which you can also find at Fashionphile, one of our favorite online resale platforms for luxury bags, jewelry, watches and accessories. The San Diego-based company offers certified authentic Hermès, Chanel, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Loewe, Prada, Dior, Cartier, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Goyard, Chrome Hearts and many other coveted luxury names at better-than-new prices.

Through its partnership with Neiman Marcus, Fashionphile also offers online order pickups and dropoffs for pre-quoted items for selling. And if you’re near one of the company’s permanent or pop-up locations in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Scottsdale, San Francisco, Philadelphia and beyond, you can sell, drop off or buy online for in-person pickup.

Hands-down our favorite dish and laundy pods, Dropps’ flexible subscriptions have helped us cross off decision fatigue when it comes to eco-conscious cleaning. (The brand is also available at Target stores.) We like that we can choose the quantity and frequency of shipments: a 64-count box ($24.96) of the UltraWash Plus biobased power dishwasher detergent lasts our family of four about two months, and our glasses and plates have never been cleaner.

Formulas are free pthalates, phosphates, chlorine, parabens, SLS and dyes, and products are shipped in plastic-free packaging. The Leaping Bunny-certified B Corp company is offering 25 percent off all month with code BYEBYEDIRTY.

Blueland makes it easy to switch to eco-friendlier, refillable home cleaning products — and it’s one less thing to add to your next Target run. The company is known for its just-add-water approach to its cleaning product tablets: you essentially make your own foaming hand soap and all-purpose, bathroom and glass/mirror cleaners. They also offer toilet cleaning, dishwasher and laundry tablets, and starter kits come with refillable and reusable spray bottles, soap dispensers and metal storage canisters.

Their Subscribe & Save option lets you set your preferred products and delivery dates

Blueland is treating shoppers to 20 percent site wide for Earth Day.

Target’s Drive Up and Circle 360 service make it tempting to shop online and enjoy convenient in-store pickup or delivery directly to your door. But Instacart offers even more options beyond your local Bulls Eye store, which also rivals Amazon Fresh and Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market’s inventory and same-day delivery offerings. The on-demand delivery platform lets you get your order from your local grocery store in as quickly as an hour. And it’s not just for food: Instacart can deliver alcohol, home goods, beauty products, flowers and more from Sephora, Aldi, Costco, Sprouts Farmers Market, Smart & Final, CVS, Walmart, Ulta, Petsmart and over 80,000 more stores across the U.S. and Canada.

It’s free to sign up for Instacart — you’ll just pay an additional delivery fee on orders. However, an Instacart+ membership ($99 per year) gets you zero delivery fees on groceries and restaurants, free streaming on Peacock and a one-year subscription to New York Times Cooking for as long as you’re a member. Instacart+ comes with a free 14-day trial and you’ll enjoy no delivery fees on orders over $10 from select stores.