Space, Time and Groceries
<p>When using our app to order groceries, you first choose a retailer, and then shop for groceries to be delivered. Over the course of a few hours, we have thousands of such orders to deliver. Doing this efficiently is the job of our logistics systems.</p>
<p>At it’s simplest, our logistics problem can be viewed as solving a TSP (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">traveling salesman problem</a>) where the shopper must go to the store first. For example, the shopper drives to the store, picks your groceries (along with two other orders), and then delivers them in a sequence:</p>
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