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Instacart is the leading online grocery platform in North America. Instacart shoppers offer same-day delivery and pickup services to bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada. Instacart has partnered with more than 700 beloved national, regional and local retailers, including unique brand names, to deliver from more than 65,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Instacart’s platform is available to over 85% of U.S. households and 90% of Canadian households. The company's cutting-edge enterprise technology also powers the ecommerce platforms of some of the world's biggest retail players, supporting their white-label websites, applications and delivery solutions. Instacart offers an Instacart Express membership that includes reduced service fees and unlimited free delivery on orders over $35. For more information, visit www.instacart.com. http://instacart.com

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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart’s Item Availability Architecture: Solving for scale and consistency

By Michael Prescott This blog post is the last segment in a three-part series that outlines our innovative approach to overcoming inventory challenges, delving into the application of product design, machine learning, and engineering technology. Here are Part-1 and Part-2 of the series if you want to catch up. In the first part of this series, we explored the […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Supercharging ML/AI Foundations at Instacart

By Haixun Wang and Jagannath Putrevu Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most impactful technology levers we have at Instacart to make our services better and help our customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners. ML investments at Instacart started as early as 2014, when we deployed our first set of models within Logistics to […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart Announces Free Delivery and 2% Back for All Small Businesses Across North America That Join Instacart During Limited Time Offer

Offer Gives Offices, Restaurants and More New Ways to Save and Serve Their Customers with Free Instacart+  We know the demands on small businesses – especially offices and restaurants – have never been more acute as they navigate a new world of hybrid office schedules, persistent supply chain issues, labor shortages and much more. To […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

The Guide to Staying Competitive in Grocery Fulfillment

Grocery fulfillment models shifted quite a bit in the past few years. After the explosive growth of home delivery in 2020, the sphere has continued to hold its own. At the center of this transformation are customers who expect more out of their grocery delivery service. Whether your customers are ordering grocery items like fresh […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

The Complete Guide to Driving Growth with Grocery E-Commerce

In the next five years, some grocery executives believe that e-commerce penetration will increase to as high as 35%. While grocery e-commerce and fulfillment leaders have spent years integrating technology to offer essentials to the public, COVID-19 accelerated this development as countless new customers adopted these services. That trial period is over, and the verdict […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

2022 Delivered: Did Anyone Actually ‘Cart’ That #FoodTok Recipe?

Today, we’re introducing 2022 Delivered: Did Anyone Actually ‘Cart’ That #FoodTok Recipe? — a deep-dive report that looks at the influence of viral TikTok recipes on customer shopping behavior. #FoodTok, a mouthwatering subgenre of TikTok, has propelled some of the buzziest food and recipe trends on social media over the past few years. Here at […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

3 Fulfillment Strategies to Help Retailers Optimize Delivery

E-commerce continues to grow — an exciting proposition for both enterprise and mid-market retailers. The consumer expectation of ultrafast fulfillment, however, pressures retail leaders to streamline their last-mile delivery solutions.  In the fulfillment game where innovative pickup and delivery services are becoming the norm, how do you differentiate your delivery solutions from your competitors to […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart’s Trust Program: How We Build Trust with Our Retailer Partners

Authors: Blake Hoge, Sr Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineer, and James Cha, Sr Security Engineer Building trust with our retailer partners is one of Instacart’s highest priorities. Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sets the tone at the top at every company-wide meeting, emphasizing to our teams just how critical retailer trust is to our mission. This […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

4 Online Grocery Technology Methods to Future-Proof Your Operations

Fast, scalable grocery fulfillment has become the norm, exponentially accelerated over the past few years by the COVID-19 pandemic and consumers’ increasing need for convenience. Whether in-store shopping or grocery ordering, seamless experiences are the name of the game, as evidenced by an increase in online grocery technology.  A recent McKinsey report found that grocery […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

3 Ways to Use Retail Media Advertising to Boost Your Bottom Line

You may remember receiving weekly ad circulars in the mail that listed discounts at local grocery stores for popular products and brands. Before retail media advertising, these print ads, along with TV commercials, billboards, and other traditional media, were the de facto way for grocers to get the word out about products and specials. And […]
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