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Readers will continue to be charged for Instacart+ at renewal unless they take affirmative action to cancel before the renewal date.
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 →Readers enrolled in Instacart+ will have their membership automatically renewed and the applicable fee automatically charged for the selected term unless they cancel.
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"UNLESS YOU CANCEL, YOUR INSTACART+ MEMBERSHIP WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW FOR THE MONTHLY OR ANNUAL TERM YOU SELECTED, AND THE APPLICABLE MEMBERSHIP FEE WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY CHARGED...Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service
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Readers will continue to be charged for Instacart+ at renewal unless they take affirmative action to cancel before the renewal date.
Readers enrolled in Instacart+ will have their membership automatically renewed and the applicable fee automatically charged for the selected term unless they cancel.
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