How It's Made

How It's Made

How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items While Saving Costs

This is Part 2 of a three-part blog post series in which we outline how we addressed inventory challenges through product, machine learning, and engineering innovations. See Part 1 here. Introduction At Instacart, we serve customers with a goal of finding and delivering all the products that they want to purchase from their favorite grocery stores. But this is no easy task as we described in Part 1…

Jul 17, 2023