Instacart: Crowdsourcing Your Grocery Shopping

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Post by apoorvamehta » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

Instacart: Crowdsourcing Your Grocery Shopping
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Post by vj44 » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:00 PM UTC

Congrats guys! Are you planning to come to NYC this year?

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Post by HorizonXP » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:06 PM UTC

Congrats to the team on securing funding! Can't wait to see you guys expand!

Personally, I use Instacart every week to buy all of my groceries. I live in Palo Alto, and don't own a car. With Instacart, that's easy, since I don't have to worry about going to the grocery store, and lugging groceries back and forth in a car. So while it may be more expensive to use Instacart, my reduced burn-rate of not having to own and maintain a vehicle makes it a net cost-savings.

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Post by rfnslyr » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

Shit this is exactly the idea I had. Congratulations guys, it's nice to have validation.

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Post by yabbadabbadoo » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

Mike Moritz doesn't get out of bed for less than a billion dollars - http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/mike-moritzs-midas-touch-gr...

Looks like Instacart is on the right path to a massive IPO :)

Good work guys!

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Post by stephengillie » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

vj44 wrote: post #2

Congrats guys! Are you planning to come to NYC this year?

Or maybe Mercer Island to compete with Amazon Fresh?

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Post by michaelt » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

HorizonXP wrote: post #3

Congrats to the team on securing funding! Can't wait to see you guys expand! Personally, I use Instacart every week to buy all of my groceries. I live in Palo Alto, and don't own a car. With Instacart, that's easy, since I don't have to worry about going to the grocery store, and lugging groceries back and forth in a car. So while it may be more expensive to use Instacart, my reduced burn-rate of not having to own an…

How much is the service/delivery charge?

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Post by tehwebguy » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

HorizonXP wrote: post #3

Congrats to the team on securing funding! Can't wait to see you guys expand! Personally, I use Instacart every week to buy all of my groceries. I live in Palo Alto, and don't own a car. With Instacart, that's easy, since I don't have to worry about going to the grocery store, and lugging groceries back and forth in a car. So while it may be more expensive to use Instacart, my reduced burn-rate of not having to own an…

Sounds awesome but doesn't that require the assumption that you would only ever use a car as a grocery transporter?

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Post by HorizonXP » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:54 PM UTC

tehwebguy wrote: post #8

HorizonXP wrote: post #3

Congrats to the team on securing funding! Can't wait to see you guys expand! Personally, I use Instacart every week to buy all of my groceries. I live in Palo Alto, and don't own a car. With Instacart, that's easy, since I don't have to worry about going to the grocery store, and lugging groceries back and forth in a car. So while it may be more expensive to use Instacart, my reduced burn-rate of not having to own an…

Sounds awesome but doesn't that require the assumption that you would only ever use a car as a grocery transporter?

Sure, but it removes that reason for having a car too. In my life, cars are usually used for: a) Commuting b) Transportation of goods c) Travelling (i.e. entertainment)

Generally, that order reflects what I use a car most for (i.e. Most of the time, my car is for commuting.)

Instacart helps remove the need for transporting goods. Amazon helps remove the rest. And I work at a location that makes commuting via bicycle + public transportation extremely easy.

So I don't need a car to commute or to transport goods. So for the few times that I need a car for entertainment, it doesn't make sense to own one. It makes more sense to rent a car from a local Hertz, or to use ZipCar for those one-off situations.

So Instacart is part of the solution, it isn't the entire solution.

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Post by HorizonXP » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #7

HorizonXP wrote: post #3

Congrats to the team on securing funding! Can't wait to see you guys expand! Personally, I use Instacart every week to buy all of my groceries. I live in Palo Alto, and don't own a car. With Instacart, that's easy, since I don't have to worry about going to the grocery store, and lugging groceries back and forth in a car. So while it may be more expensive to use Instacart, my reduced burn-rate of not having to own an…

How much is the service/delivery charge?

I honestly can't remember, since I'm on Instacart Express, and I get free deliveries above a certain dollar amount, I think $35.