I’m an avid Instacart user, why? Because it means I eat out less, it’s easy to do\u00a0and who doesn’t like convenience. This simple app lets you order items from your local supermarket, then select when you’d like them delivered.<\/p>\n
Yesterday whilst preparing an order, I realized a few things. Instacart because it isn’t a supermarket but has all the data a supermarket should be able (but doesn’t really) utilise, they could do some amazing things to innovate in bringing digital thinking to food shopping.<\/p>\n
Here’s a few thoughts:<\/p>\n
1) They can do specials.<\/p>\n
Discounts off food, and like the\u00a0supermarket these will be paid for by the brands.<\/p>\n
2) They can target these offers<\/p>\n
They know my address, general profile information by zip but also what I spend and categories of shopping.<\/p>\n
3) They can optimize against performance<\/p>\n
Imagine as a brand, optimizing per basket add. You only serve the offer up to people in a limited area, customize your offer and optimize against basket adds. You can then roll that out national or by zip code.<\/p>\n
4) They know (and can affect) loyalty<\/p>\n
Or going a step further, you could incentivize or pay for loyalty. Pay more for someone that adds your product to their basket four times in a row.<\/p>\n
5) Drop off campaigns<\/p>\n
Target people who used to buy your product but haven’t in the last three shops.<\/p>\n
And that’s just the start, I look forward to seeing Instacart opening this up to brands, I imagine at the right time this will be massive for them.<\/p>\n
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PS<\/p>\n
This is also a potential Amazon Direct play. They already have the ad engine and recommendation engine just not targeted at this area.<\/p>\n
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