[fredley]

In our office we use a shared takeaway system called Seamless. We each submit our order ahead of a cutoff time, pay, then when it arrives each container is individually named so you know what belongs to each person.

Something like this could be really good for shared grocery orders for flat shares, but ideally you'd have buy-in from the grocers, so that the bags are separated and there's no quibbling about who ordered what.

[andrewmunsell]

I always wondered why Instacart never took their Group Carts feature and made it more holistic.

Right now, Instacart lets you create shared "Group Carts" for their grocery delivery, which I use with my girlfriend. But, there's no payment splitting, ability for other people in the shared cart to add items after-the-fact, Instacart Express benefit sharing, or any sort of shared order management abilities.

If Instacart extended the "Group Carts" feature to actual "Group Orders", this would make situations like mine (and also those who use Instacart with roommates) much more convenient and would be similar to how you describe Seamless