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Empowering Grocers to Make Online Grocery More Affordable for Customers

Company Updates

Empowering Grocers to Make Online Grocery More Affordable for Customers

Being able to access affordable groceries and household goods is important for all families, especially during challenging economic times. That’s why we’re dedicated to working closely with our retail partners to provide a wider range…...

Mar 27, 2023
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The Next Chapter for Instacart Health: Introducing New Technologies, New Partnerships, and New Research

Company Updates

The Next Chapter for Instacart Health: Introducing New Technologies, New Partnerships, and New Research

At Instacart, we know health starts in the home, and we believe we can leverage our technology, our platform, and our partnerships to help ensure more families have access to the nutritious food they need…...

Mar 24, 2023
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Instacart Celebrates National Nutrition Month, Serving Up More Fresh Produce With Ads

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Instacart Celebrates National Nutrition Month, Serving Up More Fresh Produce With Ads

As we celebrate National Nutrition Month at Instacart, we're proud to introduce a new online advertising capability that enables produce brands, farms and agricultural organizations to advertise weighted items on Instacart. This includes fresh foods…...

Mar 24, 2023
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Shopper Community

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10 Items or Less: The Value of Flexibility

Shopper Community

10 Items or Less: The Value of Flexibility

The Instacart community is as diverse as the items in the grocery store — every day, tens of thousands of individuals shop, deliver, and become an extension of people’s households. We want to share this…...

Mar 27, 2023
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Queued Batches & More About Add-Ons to Keep Earning

Shopper Community

Queued Batches & More About Add-Ons to Keep Earning

We’re excited to announce a couple features that help you make the most of your time when you’re shopping. As part of our continued commitment to provide you with ingredients to earn on your terms,…...

Feb 15, 2023
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New Updates to Maximize Your Time Spent Earning

Shopper Community

New Updates to Maximize Your Time Spent Earning

We’re continuing to make improvements to the Instacart platform that build upon our renewed commitment to shoppers. That’s why, today, we’re excited to share we’re furthering our commitment to offering shoppers ingredients to earn on…...

Feb 15, 2023
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Taste of Instacart

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Meet Lydia Kung, Senior Director, HRBP at Instacart

Taste of Instacart

Meet Lydia Kung, Senior Director, HRBP at Instacart

Lydia Kung joined Instacart in 2018 as one of its first Human Resources Business Partners (HRBP). The HRBP team at Instacart sits within the People organization and are strategic thought partners who drive people strategy…...

Mar 10, 2023
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Meet Priya Monga, GM of Instacart Business

Taste of Instacart

Meet Priya Monga, GM of Instacart Business

Instacart’s Priya Monga is no stranger to breaking new ground. Throughout her career, she’s found herself at the starting point of many new ventures. Now, as she leads the newly launched Instacart Business, she’s setting…...

Mar 7, 2023
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Views From the Seat: Celebrating Black History Month

Taste of Instacart

Views From the Seat: Celebrating Black History Month

In February, Instacart’s Nightshades — our Black Employee Resource Group (ERG) — honored Black History Month with a full program of company-wide celebrations. The programming aimed to amplify and elevate the voices of the community…...

Feb 28, 2023
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How It's Made

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Distributed Machine Learning at Instacart

How It's Made

Distributed Machine Learning at Instacart

How Instacart uses distributed Machine Learning to efficiently train thousands of models in production Author: Han Li At Instacart, we take pride in offering a diverse range of machine learning (ML) products that empower every…...

Mar 24, 2023
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Adopting PgCat: A Nextgen Postgres Proxy

How It's Made

Adopting PgCat: A Nextgen Postgres Proxy

Authors: Mostafa Abdelraouf, Zain Kabani, Andrew Tanner In this post, we’ll be talking about PgCat, an open-source Postgresql Proxy that we have been using in production and contributing to. It provides connection pooling, load-balancing, and…...

Mar 13, 2023
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Getting to Know the Data Scientists at Instacart

How It's Made

Getting to Know the Data Scientists at Instacart

Our Data Science team at Instacart is responsible for all data analytics, insights and experimentation at the company. The team partners with our Product and Engineering teams on all stages of the product life cycle,…...

Dec 21, 2022
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Instacart Retail

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How Consumers Are Responding to Inflation, and What That Means for Retailers

Instacart Retail

How Consumers Are Responding to Inflation, and What That Means for Retailers

While inflation continues to affect the retail industry across the board, it continues to be felt most by the stakeholders who could potentially have the largest influence: the consumers. To combat this issue, retailers must…...

Mar 28, 2023
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Empowering Grocers to Make Online Grocery More Affordable for Customers

Company Updates

Empowering Grocers to Make Online Grocery More Affordable for Customers

Being able to access affordable groceries and household goods is important for all families, especially during challenging economic times. That’s why we’re dedicated to working closely with our retail partners to provide a wider range…...

Mar 27, 2023
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How Retailers are Making an Impact With Online EBT SNAP Acceptance

Instacart Retail

How Retailers are Making an Impact With Online EBT SNAP Acceptance

Grocers are at the heart of their communities, and thus have incredible opportunities to improve the lives of consumers with whom they interact daily. The mission statements of many retailers reflect this people-first focus –…...

Mar 14, 2023
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Instacart Ads

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Instacart Celebrates National Nutrition Month, Serving Up More Fresh Produce With Ads

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Instacart Celebrates National Nutrition Month, Serving Up More Fresh Produce With Ads

As we celebrate National Nutrition Month at Instacart, we're proud to introduce a new online advertising capability that enables produce brands, farms and agricultural organizations to advertise weighted items on Instacart. This includes fresh foods…...

Mar 24, 2023
Read time: 8min
Growing Together - Skai’s Success with Instacart Ads

Instacart Ads

Growing Together – Skai’s Success with Instacart Ads

2022 was a stellar growth year for Skai, adding more than 50 new Instacart advertisers to the platform. Through close collaboration on joint business goals, Skai achieved great success with Instacart for its clients by…...

Mar 23, 2023
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Instacart Collaborates with The New Consumer to Explore Food and Wellness Trends

Instacart Ads

Instacart Collaborates with The New Consumer to Explore Food and Wellness Trends

For the first time, Instacart contributed insights for The New Consumer’s latest report, which looks at food and wellness trends. The New Consumer, in collaboration with Coefficient Capital, recently published their Spring 2023 Consumer Trends…...

Mar 2, 2023
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