The story behind an Instacart order, part 3: predicting the shop

1 · Instacart · Dec. 20, 2019, 2:20 a.m.
Summary
This is the third installment of our “Story Behind an Order” series, where we’re walking you through the technology that surfaces grocery items in our apps, enables storefront browsing, facilitates communication before and during the shop, and powers our last-mile logistics to get dinner to your door in as fast as an hour. If you haven’t already, make sure to check out Part One to see how we gather and normalize our grocery catalog data, and Part Two, which covers the tech behind storefront brow...