Naive question: Why does this url 302 redirect to medium.com and then medium.com forwards back to the same original url? Is there some commercial advantage? W

Naive question: Why does this url 302 redirect to medium.com and then medium.com forwards back to the same original url? Is there some commercial advantage? Why not just post the medium url https://medium.com/p/f1076d625241 https://medium.com/p/f1076d625241 This 302 redirects to tech.instacart.com