The "Instacart" platform will double the number of delivery workers who shop consumers in some "supermarkets" and take care of delivering them, a service that is popular with the existing home quarantine.
The company, headquartered in San Francisco, announced that it would use 300,000 "private buyers" in the next three months to meet the surge in demand due to the spread of the emerging "Corona" virus.
Like Uber drivers, they do not work full time but are paid on a per-connection basis. The InstaCart app puts them in contact with consumers.
"The last weeks have been the most active in Instacart's history, our teams have been working without stopping to serve the users in a reliable and safe manner," the company president, Aburfa Mita, said in a statement.
The company’s order quantities in North America increased by 150% over a year. Customers who are keen to avoid the risk of contracting the virus in the stores, apply more than usual, according to the service itself.