Tech & Innovation
Key contributors: Prithvi Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Kristen Morgan, Bryan Pham, Rick Shukla, Preeti Chadha, Vipul Bahubali, Ahmad Sajedi, and Ali Maleky Introduction Grocery flyers have long been a cornerstone of retail promotions, from paper inserts in the newspaper to email blasts featuring weekly deals. As more grocery shopping shifts online, however, these static promotions haven’t kept pace with customer expectations for convenience and interactivity....
Feb 9, 2026
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Tech & Innovation
I’m very excited to announce the release of Coil 1.0 . Coil is a Kotlin-first image loading library for Android built on top of Kotlin Coroutines. It simplifies loading images from the Internet (or any...
Aug 18, 2021
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A Q&A with Dusty Pearce, our first VP of Infrastructure How did you get into Infrastructure Engineering? I started out as a software developer and grew into infrastructure over time. My last few companies have...
Aug 18, 2021
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What do you do? I’m a user researcher at Instacart and I work on the shopper and customer experience for Pickup. I love talking to our users on both sides because it gives me the...
Aug 18, 2021
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Today we launched Instacart Meals — a new grocery meals product that powers easy ordering, delivery and pickup of made-to-order food. Right now, Instacart Meals is live as a pilot at select Publix stores in...
Aug 18, 2021
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What happens when you fold a customer into your last mile? By: Kevin Henrikson I’m driving with my family from San Mateo to Juniper Lake for a camping trip. I need to stock up my...
Aug 18, 2021
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Designing a new product and shopping experience from the ground up. Contributors: Senior Product Designers Andressa Bougleux and Dan Shilov Why pickup makes sense Imagine: It’s late in the afternoon when Carol realizes she forgot...
Aug 18, 2021
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A Q&A with Leho Nigul, our first VP of Engineering, Catalog, and Tools Instacart has the largest grocery catalog in the world , with nearly 5 million unique products, spanning over 25,000 locations across North...
Aug 18, 2021
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A Q&A with Vikaram Gupta, Instacart’s Vice President of Ads Engineering We’re excited to announce that we just welcomed Vik Gupta to Instacart as our first-ever Vice President Engineering, Advertising. Vik comes to us from...
Aug 18, 2021
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What do you do? I’m a Senior Marketing Designer at Instacart in Toronto. I work in our Product Marketing team and focus on our enterprise products. How did you get into design? I loved illustration...
Aug 18, 2021
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