About 42 million people in the United States rely on SNAP benefits to access the nutritious food they need. And today, Instacart is the first and only online grocery marketplace to accept SNAP payments online in all 50 states and Washington D.C. This expansion furthers our mission to give everyone access to the food they love by providing SNAP families nationwide with the convenience and flexibility of online grocery. More here! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gF5ZbvzV
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DoorDash joins Instacart in allowing customers to use SNAP EBT online payments for on-demand delivery of eligible grocery items. The firm just announced that it’s partnering with 4,000 Albertsons, Safeway, Meijer, Aldi, and 7-Eleven locations to facilitate the program through their app. It’s groundbreaking news for the supermarket and convenience store industry, which will have a huge positive impact on seniors, those with disabilities, and vulnerable populations that are food insecure. According to the USDA nearly 18 million people, or 6.1 percent of the U.S. population live in a food desert, meaning they lack access to grocery stores. It’s a great example of leveraging profit motive to solve big problems. https://bit.ly/3OlbOfR #foodsecurity #foodinsecurity #doordash #instacart #commercialkitchenequipment #grocerystorenews #grocerystoreindustry #restaurantequipment #restaurantauctions #restaurantnews #cfo #coo #foodindustry #foodindustryequipment #sustainability #liquidaterestaurant #openrestaurant #expandrestaurant #foodoperations #restaurantclosure #restaurantremodel #restaurantliquidation
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Instacart Scams: Optimizing Your Grocery Delivery Experience Ensuring a smooth and secure Instacart experience is paramount. Unfortunately, recent scams have targeted both customers and shoppers. Be vigilant against suspicious activity! In this post, I'll break down 11 common Instacart scams. Read more to find out: https://lnkd.in/gEvQheST By staying informed, we can collectively safeguard the Instacart platform. #ConsumerAwareness #FraudPrevention #SafetyFirst #Instacart #GroceryDelivery
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Good insight into not taking people for granted..
Larry Askew, 45, is a professional shopper — and a highly dedicated one. From 6 a.m. until 3 p.m. every day of the week, he shops for Instacart, bagging groceries mostly at this Wegmans and driving them around the city in his Sentra. In the afternoon, he turns on the UberEats app and delivers takeout until about 11 p.m. Then he goes to the gym to shower, drives back to the Wisconsin Avenue parking lot, reclines the front seat and falls immediately asleep. These gig-economy strivers struggle with uncertain pay, occasional poor treatment at the hands of customers, and the sheer physical stress of hauling around groceries all day. A look inside the private lives of Instacart shoppers shows the determination and the precarity that go into making this job work.
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Instacart is testing a long-sought-after feature in a pilot experiment. The feature lets you “favorite” repeat shoppers that you trust to have your future orders fulfilled by them. This feature is being tested in the coming weeks with select customers in select regions that include New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix. The positive experience created by the driver/shopper makes all the difference. #lastmiledelivery #customerexperience #driverexperience Daniel Danker
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My favorite cookie shop in NYC has an average 1.0 star rating. Wanna know why? Because this location hasn't opened yet and this guy left the only rating. This goes to show that no matter how good your product, cause, or intentions... SOME buffoon will find the fault. And the only way you let the buffoons win is if you start running your business for THEM instead of for your CUSTOMERS. --- Here are some ridiculous things that have happened to me in sales, content, and business: ✅ I've had a prospect angrily emailed my CEO for sending her a Doordash gift card. ✅ I've had a post go viral, which spurred an equally viral hate thread about me on Reddit. ✅ I've had customers tell us that we'll go out of business for charging $50k instead of $5k (which actually would have put us out of business). If you never push for power in sales, you will never close a big deal. If you write content for your haters, you will write scared, timid, flavorless content. If you build product for bad deals, you will build a product for losing companies. Never, ever, ever tone "you" down for the critics. You will only alienate the people who followed you for you.
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there are two takeaways (for me) when reading posts like this 1) It really is possible to achieve the impossible when you put your heart and soul into it 2) To remember that our success is the result of not just ours but countless others hardwork as well
More than a decade ago, I was sitting in my apartment in San Francisco bemoaning the fact that the only thing I had in my refrigerator was hot sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love hot sauce, but you can’t exactly make it a meal. My empty refrigerator was an ongoing problem - and a source of inspiration. It was 2012 and I could shop for everything online except groceries. That was a lightbulb moment for me, and I got started coding the first version of the Instacart App. Today, the company I founded in my kitchen is now publicly traded ($CART)! I’m immensely grateful to the team that built Instacart I also want to thank the hard-working community of shoppers, our incredible customers, our retail and CPG partners and our CEO Fidji Simo Finally, none of this would have been possible had my parents not made countless sacrifices as we immigrated from India to Libya and then to Canada – all so that one day my brother and I might have a chance to pursue our dreams. While this is an important milestone, the work Instacart is only just beginning. I can’t wait to see how the team continues to transform the grocery industry. Onward!
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Check out my new column #GroceryTechBasket! This week's column highlights developments to online #SNAP payments. Good news for #Alaskans and others who use SNAP, which is now available Target, Amazon, Walmart, Safeway & via Instacart in the Last Frontier. - Winsight Grocery Business
Online SNAP in the Last Frontier
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I used to get defensive when someone would attempt to minimize tech we created with literal statements like, "oh that's just an API request to send an SMS" or "one of our guys built something like that AR street mapper over the weekend." I realize now that the tech itself is often the easiest part of building a business. Let others think what you do is easy. It will invite more competitive entrants who underestimated the challenge and make you look even better, while at the same time giving you fresh ideas on what someone would do if today were Day 0 rebuilding your solution. As an example, let people think they could hack a better Instacart together in a weekend. I guarantee getting your grocery list to a shopper and completing payment is far from the hardest part of the equation.
