Delivery Slot Finder
by Dalvin Brown, Usa Today
A brand new website, Shopping Slot, allows you to search across multiple supermarkets and find the next delivery slots as well as click and collect. The site is absolutely free to use, and it takes all of a minute to see where has online delivery. Simply pop your postcode into the Shopping Slot site, and it’ll deliver the results. We’re constantly releasing new slots – if you don’t see any available when you first log in then please check back later. Slots for 2–3 days time are being snapped up quickly, but you might be able to find a slot if you book a bit further in advance. We recommend doing this so you don't miss out. Delivery Slot Finder Website. Our website address is: Cookies. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
Instacart is adding new features Wednesday to speed up its delivery service after struggling to keep up with higher demand.
For weeks, customers in many markets had a hard time finding a delivery slot as the coronavirus crisis drove more people to stay indoors and order essentials via Instacart. On Wednesday, the company added two new features aimed at making service faster and more convenient for those under stay-at-home orders.
Instacart is adding a 'Fast & Flexible' option that matches customers with shoppers more quickly, and it's rolling out an 'Order Ahead' tool that lets you set when you'd like to receive longer-term dropoffs.
'Fast & Flexible'
One of the new features pairs app users with available shoppers in real time to cut down on the time it takes to receive an order. The tool will give customers the option to have an order delivered by the first available shopper, rather than have deliveries pegged to a specific window of time.
Customers will see an estimated delivery range, such as Monday through Wednesday, and they'll get a notification when the order was picked up by a shopper and is on the way.
'Order Ahead'
After testing out Order Ahead in select markets, Instacart will let all U.S. customers place orders up to two weeks in advance in the coming weeks.
Typically, users could choose delivery windows only up to one week ahead.
The move is meant to enable people to restock their pantry and purchase recurring essentials well in advance of when they'll need them.
Instacart, a delivery service that partners with more than 25,000 stores in North America, has said orders have surged 150% in recent weeks.
'The customer demand we expected over the next two to four years has happened on the Instacart platform in the last two to four weeks,' said Apoorva Mehta, CEO of Instacart, in a statement.
The company has hired over 150,000 'active shoppers' over the past two weeks to meet increasing demand—continuing its plans to add 300,000 additional workers.
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Like a game of whack-a-mole, people who are flocking to e-commerce for their grocery shopping in this time of pandemic are encountering a new headache: longer-than-normal wait times to get their food actually delivered.
Once you’ve placed your order, it can be one if not two weeks before a delivery window opens up. This a problem for people who really shouldn’t go to the grocery store (think: elderly parents, or the immunocompromised) or those who can’t get there because of essential work or family. The fact that grocers aren’t exactly great at alerting you that an item has gone out of stock between the time you order and the time you get your delivery only complicates the problem.
There may be a small fix for this. CNBC reports on a new tool you can run on your computer to make finding a delivery window a little bit easier. Adrian Hertel built a downloadable program that alerts you when delivery slots in Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods open up. Hertel told CNBC he built the tool out of concern for his parents, who have immune deficiencies.
Now, before you get too excited, the tool, plainly dubbed Amazon Fresh/Whole Foods Delivery Slot Finder, is not some slick app that you install on your phone. It’s a JavaScript tool that you have to download from GitHub, and it only works via Script Editor on a Mac running Safari.
Once you download and run the Slot Finder, you have to visit Amazon/Whole Foods in the Safari browser. Then you have to go through the whole checkout process and stop once you get to the delivery options. Once there, you run the Slot Finder script.
Here’s how the script works, according to Slot Finder’s GitHub page:
- It opens the checkout page in a new window, minimizes it, and then refreshes every ~60 seconds in the background.
- Once it finds an open slot it alerts you by putting a notification on your screen and playing a sound, and opening the checkout page. You can choose to receive text messages when a slot is found
- You can choose to have the tool ignore out of stock notifications and continue searching uninterrupted
- Once you’re notified, quickly select a slot and finish checking out because available slots are snagged almost instantly.
It’s not the most elegant solution, and though I downloaded and set it up, I can’t test it out since Amazon Fresh/Whole Foods doesn’t deliver to my area. If you try it out, drop us a line and tell us how it went!
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While the Slot Finder may be rough, it does highlight how people are getting creative in solving everyday problems caused by this pandemic. Hopefully, as the likes Amazon and Walmart hire hundreds of thousands of new workers to keep up with demand, delayed delivery windows will be a thing of the past.
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