The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment

[shiftb]

https://tech.instacart.com/the-garden-instacarts-physical-staging-environment-7204fd063616

[mhw]

Off topic, but I wanted to highlight the open source contributions that Instacart have made. Have a look at all the good stuff at https://github.com/ankane - chartkick, ahoy, pghero, searchkick, blazer and more.

Edit: should also have linked to https://www.instacart.com/opensource

[HorizonXP → mhw]

Thanks for the link! pghero and chartkick look very useful!

[Animats]

Those are fairly common. Most big retailers have a test store. Some are just for in-house use, and some have real customers.

[bound008 → Animats]

Michael Drexler gave the same advice to Steve Jobs before they opened their first Apple Store. They instantly realized they got the whole thing wrong.

[bpicolo]

That's fancy! Thanks for sharing!