If you don’t like grocery shopping, you’ll LOVE Instacart!
Instacart, the nation’s largest on-demand grocery delivery service,
is launching for the first time in North Dakota, in the Fargo area
starting Thursday,
May 24. Local residents can shop from their favorite local stores, including Hornbachers, Family Fare, Costco, Natural Grocers, and CVS Pharmacy, and have groceries delivered same-day, in as little as one hour.
The launch of this new service is also bringing more job opportunity to the area as Instacart plans to bring on more than 100 new Shoppers. The position is an Uber-like, Independant Contractor position that offers a flexible schedule. People can apply at
shoppers.instacart.com
IN THIS PODCAST: Martha Vargas, Instacart’s Operations Manager, joins IT2.
The delivery area will cover over 78K households in areas including Fargo, Harwood, Brooktree Park, Prosper, North River, Reile’s Acres, West Fargo, Fife, Prairie Rose, Pinkham, Frontier, Briarwood, St. Benedict, Horace, Hickson, Oxbow, Comstock, Sabin, Baker, Glyndon, Averill, Moorhead, Dilworth, Oakport, and Rustad.
The service will also be available in the Grand Forks May 24 as well!
Visit
www.instacart.com
for more details!
And, yes, their employees have training on how to pick the produce!
You’ll be able to spot the shoppers in their bright green shirts around local grocery stores.
(Amy Iler & JJ Gordon are talk-show hosts at 790 AM KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. “It Takes 2 with Amy & JJ” can be heard weekdays 11am-2pm. Follow Amy on Twitter @AmyKFGO. Follow JJ on Twitter @JJGodon701.)
