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Shop Etsy for party supplies within a budget
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Gemini
Build a grocery cart from purchase history
Instacart's AI assistant built a 27-item cart from the shopper's purchase history, turned dinner ideas into carts and flagged unavailable items.
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Use case overview
Instacart's AI assistant built a 27-item cart from the shopper's purchase history, turned dinner ideas into carts and flagged unavailable items.
Reported experience
What they did
Aly Walansky, who has shopped on Instacart since the pandemic, asked Instacart's Clementine assistant to shop her usuals after choosing a store. She also photographed a paper list to import, and described a planned roast chicken dinner so it could suggest missing ingredients. She reviewed quantities, substitutions and prices, and edited the cart herself before checkout.
How it went
It returned 27 items from her history, said which usual products the store lacked and offered similar ones. For the chicken dinner it suggested sides and lemons, judging them against what was already in her cart.
Worth knowing
The tool leans on long purchase history, and the author stayed in control of substitutions and checkout. She also had the cooking knowledge to judge its suggestions.
Example prompts
Open my [grocery store or Instacart] account and look at my past orders from the last [number] months. Build a cart of about [number] items I buy regularly, plus ingredients for these dinners: [dinner ideas]. Flag anything that is out of stock and suggest substitutes. Stop with the cart filled and show it to me; do not check out or pay.
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