The iPhone app is actually why I never use this. It's too cumbersome to put together an order. It took my girlfriend and I just as long to find everything I wanted (no efficient way to browse) and put together the order as it would have taken us to just go to Safeway ourselves.
Finally! I've had half-finished Instacart orders sitting on my phone, just because I was too lazy to pick all the items from the mobile interface and kept losing track of what I still needed (don't judge me!).
I just tried the site and ordered my weekly groceries within a few minutes. It works great and has a refreshingly small amount of cruft. Just a searchable, categorized list of items, a shopping cart and a checkout button. Good work!
I checked out the InstaCart source code because I had a hunch it was built with Bootstrap. The header comments were hilarious.
"Yes, it's Bootstrap.
Don't like it?
Join us and fix it. Email jobs@instacart.com
"
I haven't tried the service since I'm not in the coverage area but it would be nice if you could take a pic of a grocery reciept and let it automatically import an order
That's a difficult problem to solve. Nevermind the OCR issues surrounding different store's receipts, the line item descriptions are so varied and atrocious, it would be a very large undertaking to match them against Instacart's existing product database.
Good idea, just hard to execute, and I'm not sure it would have a sufficient payoff to be worth it.
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I'm in Palo Alto, so I fit the first requirement on space. I also have a desire to have this service and pay them my dollars occasionally.
Edit: Just realized that I missed the point of this post.
I just tried the site and ordered my weekly groceries within a few minutes. It works great and has a refreshingly small amount of cruft. Just a searchable, categorized list of items, a shopping cart and a checkout button. Good work!
"Yes, it's Bootstrap. Don't like it? Join us and fix it. Email jobs@instacart.com "
Maybe I will email jobs@instacart.com ...
Good idea, just hard to execute, and I'm not sure it would have a sufficient payoff to be worth it.