Instacart (www.instacart.com), the fast-growing retail delivery service whose shoppers hand-pick and deliver items from trusted local stores, announced recently that it is expanding into the Jackson are to serve over 231,000 households beginning August 24th.
Jackson area residents can now order from their favorite retailers like Whole Foods Market, Petco, and Kroger, and have their groceries and everyday essentials delivered straight to their doorsteps in as little as one hour.
Instacart received an overwhelming volume of requests for expansion into this region and is excited to now be delivering to the Jackson area. Service areas include: Jackson, Brandon, Byram, Pearl, Richland, Flowood, Madison, Annandale, Ridgeland, Clinton, Raymond, Western Hills, Terry, Anse, Florence, Whitfield, and Goshen Springs.
Instacart is also bringing incoming-earning opportunities to the area with plans to bring on more than 100 new shoppers.
"Over the past year, we've seen incredible demand in the Jackson area," said Dave Osborne, Senior Regional Director. 'We work with a variety of local retailers to provide the freshest, highest quality groceries to our customers. Expansion into Jackson gives us an opportunity to expand service in the Mississippi market. We're also excited to build a world class shopper community, where we can offer fun and flexible income-earning opportunities for our shoppers, whole ultimately deliver this amazing service to the community."
How Instacart works: Customers go online to Instacart.com or open the Instacart mobile app on their iPhone or Android device, select their city and store, add items to a virtual cart, then choose a delivery window (within one hour, two hours, or up to seven days in advance) and check out. An Instacart shopper accepts the order on their smartphone, uses the Instacart shopper app to guide them through shopping, and then delivers the order to the customer in the designated delivery timeframe.
First-time users can enter the code HIJACKSON (10/28 expiration) at checkout to get $20 off an order of $35 or more, plus a free first-time delivery.