Instacart

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 28, 2026 -- The global smart shopping cart market is projected to grow from $0.59 billion in 2026 to $1.65 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 18.7%, according to new data from MarketsandMarkets. The market stood at $0.33 billion in 2025, reflecting near-doubling growth in a single year as retailers accelerate deployment of AI-enabled carts to automate checkout and deepen in-store digital engagement.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Instacart (Nasdaq: CART) and Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) have launched a partnership to offer same-day delivery of the discount retailer's products through the Instacart App and website, with plans to scale to roughly 20,000 stores across 48 states this fall.

Pilot program covers 7,000 stores in six states before national expansion

The rollout begins with a pilot at approximately 7,000 Dollar General and pOpshelf stores in six states, with delivery available in as fast as one hour. Customers will be able to order food and snacks, household essentials, and health and beauty products through the platform.

San Francisco/Philadelphia – September 22, 2026 -- Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) will add Gopuff to its Marketplace and deploy its Carrot Ads technology across Gopuff's digital storefront, giving more than 9,000 brand advertisers direct access to Gopuff's on-demand customer base in the U.S.

Gopuff will join over 2,200 national and local retail banners already on the Instacart Marketplace, offering Instacart customers delivery in as fast as 15 minutes from a catalog of thousands of groceries, snacks, beverages and household staples. Orders placed through Instacart will be fulfilled directly by Gopuff via its own network of micro-fulfillment centers.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) has launched new in-store software that gives grocers and CPG brands a real-time digital map of every shelf in a store, drawing on more than 10 million unique data points collected daily by its network of roughly 600,000 shoppers.

Instacart shoppers visit stores 15 times daily, feeding shelf-scan data into new tools

The company's shopper network visits stores across North America more than 15 times per store per day on average. That shelf-scan data is combined with insights from over 1.6 billion lifetime orders and imagery captured by Instacart shoppers and Caper Carts, which use Arpalus computer vision technology, to build a live view of stock levels, demand spikes and merchandising performance.

London – September 17, 2026 -- Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, has appointed Fidji Simo, former CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI, to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Simo brings two decades of consumer-tech scaling experience to Nscale's board

Simo most recently led business and product teams at OpenAI responsible for delivering the company's research to end users, and continues to advise the firm. Before OpenAI, she served as CEO and Chair of Instacart, guiding the company to profitability and through its 2023 public listing. She previously spent a decade at Meta, where she headed the Facebook App overseeing News Feed, Video, Groups, Marketplace and Ads, and earlier led mobile advertising products. She began her career at eBay and currently sits on Shopify's board of directors.