Community carts allow grocery and supply donations from Instacart app

In addition to waiving the delivery fee for all grocery orders of $10 or more for customers in Los Angeles County, Instacart is activating community carts for 10 Los Angeles-area YMCAs to help provide services to those in need.

As wildfires continue to sweep through Los Angeles County, Instacart said in a news release that connecting temporary emergency relief centers helping care for tens of thousands of people to the much-needed groceries and supplies they need is more critical than ever.

Similar to traditional food drives, Instacart said community carts allow people to donate groceries and supplies directly from the Instacart App. This creates a way for people across the country to participate in donating groceries and supplies, according to the release. Instacart will waive delivery and service fees on all community cart orders.

To start giving, customers can open the Instacart app or go to www.instacart.com and tap the community carts banner or click instacart.com/donate. From there, they can select any participating YMCA and shop as many items as they’d like from the lists of essential items based on exactly what they need. Instacart shoppers will then deliver the items directly to the YMCA, the release said.