Before filing any legal claim or arbitration against Instacart, users must first attempt to resolve the dispute informally for 60 days.
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The 60-day mandatory waiting period before initiating legal proceedings delays users' ability to pursue formal remedies and functions as a procedural condition precedent to arbitration or litigation.
Interpretive note: Whether the 60-day mandatory informal resolution period is enforceable as a condition precedent to arbitration may vary by jurisdiction and the specific facts of individual disputes.
Instacart rewrote its entire Terms of Service, adding 367 new sentences including sections on AI-powered services, updated arbitration procedures, and revised data handling practices. The restructuring makes it harder to compare what changed because the entire document was reorganized.
View change record →Users must wait at least 60 days after initiating informal dispute resolution before they can file an arbitration demand or legal proceeding against Instacart, which delays access to formal remedies for disputes of any size.
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"Before initiating any legal proceedings, all users must complete a 60-day informal dispute resolution process, except where prohibited by applicable law. See Section 7.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service
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The 60-day mandatory waiting period before initiating legal proceedings delays users' ability to pursue formal remedies and functions as a procedural condition precedent to arbitration or litigation.
Users must wait at least 60 days after initiating informal dispute resolution before they can file an arbitration demand or legal proceeding against Instacart, which delays access to formal remedies for disputes of any size.
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