Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
by trebligdivad on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:56AM
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The initial grouping of 'pack of organic bananas' with individual bananas feels like a wrong number in the pack problem; eg we typically want one a day so want to buy 7 in a weekly shop but the pack size is 5.
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Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
by embedding-shape on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:17AM
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> eg we typically want one a day so want to buy 7 in a weekly shop but the pack size is 5.
Can't you just grab a bigger cluster/bunch and remove N bananas so it has the amount you want? Or remove 3 from the bunch that has five so two 5+2 clusters? Feels like I'm missing something obvious here.
Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
by LourensT on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:23AM
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Yes, because Instacart is ordering for delivery :)
Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
by embedding-shape on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:24AM
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Oh yeah, of course, guess I kind of forgot the overall context, and I was thinking in-person shopping... Thanks! :)
Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
by trebligdivad on Saturday July 18, 2026 @05:58PM
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Yes, once I can put in the delivery details something like '7 medium size bananas, with no bruising, varying in ripeness from almost ready to still slightly green' and let a robot at the other end sort it out I'll be happy.