Predicting real-time availability of 200 million grocery items in North American stores

1 · Instacart · Dec. 5, 2018, 1:37 a.m.
Predicting the real-time availability of 200 million grocery itemsEver wished there was a way to know if your favorite Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor is currently available in a grocery store near you? Instacart’s machine learning team has built tools to figure that out!Our marketplace’s scale lets us build sophisticated prediction models. Our community of over 70,000 personal shoppers scans millions of items per day across 15,000 physical stores and delivers them to the customers. These store...