From the Store to Your Door

An inside look at logistics at Instacart

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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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