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Company Updates
Hitting Hunger Head On: How Instacart is Taking Action to Support SNAP Families and Food Banks Across the Country
Next week, SNAP benefits will return to pre-pandemic levels in more than 30 states across the country. As a result, millions of families will see their monthly grocery budgets tighten by $95 or more, and many food banks — already facing supply shortages amid rising food prices and an ongoing donation drought — are bracing for a surge in demand for food assistance. At Instacart,…...
Feb 23, 2023Company Updates View all
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
Company Updates
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
Company Updates
Scaling food as medicine programs with providers like Boston Children’s Hospital
It is widely accepted that nutrition is critical to health but today over 30 million people in the U.S. live in food-insecure households – including as many as 9 million children1. Studies have shown that…...
Mar 24, 2023Shopper Community View all
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
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
Shopper Community
10 Items or Less: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
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…...
Feb 13, 2023Taste of Instacart View all
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
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
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, 2023How It's Made View all
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
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
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, 2022Instacart Retail View all
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
Company Updates
How the Instacart Platform Supports Independents
Across the U.S. and Canada, independent grocers face a number of business challenges, including high inflation, increased competition, workforce development issues, fractured supply chains and more. Despite these headwinds, local retailers are innovating and embracing…...
Feb 23, 2023
Company Updates
Foodcellar Market Introduces Scan & Pay Checkout Technology Powered by Instacart
No one likes waiting in line, which is why we’re excited that local Long Island City grocer Foodcellar Market is the first retailer to fully deploy Instacart’s Scan & Pay technology in stores – part…...
Feb 6, 2023Instacart Ads View all
Company Updates
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
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
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