Company Updates

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Bringing Inspirational, AI-Powered Search to the Instacart app with Ask Instacart

Company Updates

Bringing Inspirational, AI-Powered Search to the Instacart app with Ask Instacart

At Instacart, AI has been central to everything we do for years: from matching Shoppers to available batches and delivery windows to helping customers find the right replacements for low-stock items and serving up personalized…...

May 31, 2023
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Small Business Summer Spotlights: Serving Up Love & Empowering Young Careers with Connie’s Chicken & Waffles

Company Updates

Small Business Summer Spotlights: Serving Up Love & Empowering Young Careers with Connie’s Chicken & Waffles

​​This summer, Instacart is celebrating small businesses with our Small Business Summer Spotlights series. We know small businesses are the heart of their communities, and we’re proud to help them thrive and grow. Every Friday,…...

May 19, 2023
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Small Business Summer Spotlights: Fighting Food Insecurity With 3 Guys from Brooklyn

Company Updates

Small Business Summer Spotlights: Fighting Food Insecurity With 3 Guys from Brooklyn

This summer, Instacart is celebrating small businesses with our Small Business Summer Spotlights series. We know small businesses are the heart of their communities, and we’re proud to help them thrive and grow. Every Friday,…...

May 12, 2023
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Shopper Community

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10 Items or Less: Good Service Comes from the Heart

Shopper Community

10 Items or Less: Good Service Comes from the Heart

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…...

May 31, 2023
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Now Testing: Favorite Shopper

Shopper Community

Now Testing: Favorite Shopper

At Instacart, we’re always listening to feedback from customers and shoppers to help us make meaningful improvements to their experience. We often hear that both customers and shoppers would love the ability for a customer…...

May 30, 2023
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Strengthening the Shopper-Customer Relationship

Shopper Community

Strengthening the Shopper-Customer Relationship

Last year, we made a commitment to foster a community built on best intent. This means that we act with consideration and compassion for the Instacart community and ask that shoppers and customers assume the…...

May 1, 2023
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Taste of Instacart

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Celebrating Instacart’s Parents with Parents Month

Taste of Instacart

Celebrating Instacart’s Parents with Parents Month

This April, Instacart’s [email protected] Employee Resource Group (ERG) celebrated Parent’s Month, a special time dedicated to recognizing our incredible parents community at Instacart. The community hosted a series of programming to help parents across the…...

May 5, 2023
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Lifting Women Up— Celebrating Women’s History Month

Taste of Instacart

Lifting Women Up— Celebrating Women’s History Month

This March, Instacart’s [email protected] employee resource group (ERG) celebrated Women’s History month with the theme Lifting Women Up - Connection and Growth. The ERG’s goal behind the theme was to shine a spotlight on advocacy,…...

Apr 6, 2023
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Meet Sarah Mastrorocco, VP & GM of Instacart Health

Taste of Instacart

Meet Sarah Mastrorocco, VP & GM of Instacart Health

Sarah Mastrorocco is at the forefront of innovation at Instacart as the VP & GM of Instacart Health— a sweeping new initiative designed to build tools and technology that empower healthier living by expanding access…...

Apr 4, 2023
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How It's Made

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Building a Flink Self-Serve Platform on Kubernetes at Scale

How It's Made

Building a Flink Self-Serve Platform on Kubernetes at Scale

Author: Sylvia Lin At Instacart, we have a number of data pipelines with low-latency needs that handle over two trillion events a year. Those events help our engineering and product teams to make better decisions…...

Apr 28, 2023
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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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Instacart Retail

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Inflation’s Effect on Top Categories, and What Retailers Can Do

Instacart Retail

Inflation’s Effect on Top Categories, and What Retailers Can Do

It’s no secret that prices are rising. At Instacart, we’ve seen price increases across all categories, and some get hit harder than others. For example, pet department prices have seen the largest increase, whereas alcohol…...

Apr 12, 2023
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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

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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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Instacart Ads

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Poppi + Tinuiti Increase Basket Penetration 50% WoW*

Instacart Ads

Poppi + Tinuiti Increase Basket Penetration 50% WoW*

In this article, we look at a successful partnership between Poppi, Tinuiti, and Instacart. Since working with Tinuiti to identify opportunities on Instacart to focus their increased ad spend, Poppi has seen: Basket penetration increase…...

May 31, 2023
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KIND Trades-Up with Impulse

Instacart Ads

KIND Trades-Up with Impulse

KIND used impulse for sponsored product ads to acquire repeat customers and drive sales of larger pack sizes The launch of impulse for sponsored product ads, a new solution for our brand partners and advertisers…...

May 25, 2023
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Working with Instacart Ads - Godshall's

Instacart Ads

Working with Instacart Ads – Godshall’s

In this success story about working with Instacart Ads, we spotlight Godshall’s tremendous success — more than doubling their sales on Instacart year-over-year Since their start in 1945, Godshall’s has been dedicated to supplying premium…...

May 12, 2023
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