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From the Store to Your Door

Andrew Kane
October 15, 2014

From the Store to Your Door

An inside look at logistics at Instacart

Andrew Kane

October 15, 2014
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  1. Fro th Stor
    t Your Door

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  2. Same Day
    Grocery Delivery

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  3. 12 minutes—


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  4. 15 cities
    40 stores
    22 people

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  5. github.com/ankane

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  8. [avocado]

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  10. Review

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  11. $$ checkout

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  12. Live

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  14. Tell me more

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  15. “All models are wrong,
    but some are useful”

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  16. Actions
    Location
    Transactions
    Dat

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  17. [modeling example]
    Trip Id # of Items Hour of Day
    Total Time
    (min)
    1 12 8 30
    2 45 10 41
    3 18 17 35
    4 6 23 ???

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  18. def total_time
    30.minutes
    end

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  19. Measur

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  20. Measur
    Over Time

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  21. 25
    50
    75
    100
    April May June July

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  22. <%= line_chart data %>

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  23. Pie charts cool?

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  24. Pie charts cool?
    100% No

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  25. Now what?

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  26. Operation
    Researc

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  27. Shopper
    Store
    Time
    Decisio Variable

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  28. Alcohol
    # of Items
    Constraint

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  29. Min Lateness
    Min Shopper Hours
    Objectiv Functio

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  31. Hours

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  32. seconds

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  33. Measur
    Over Time

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  34. Question ?

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