Grocery delivery company Instacart has settled with the Seattle Office of Labor Standards for alleged violations of the city’s Gig Worker Paid Sick and Safe Time Ordinance.
Asha Sharma is headed back to Seattle full-time for a new role leading product for Microsoft’s AI platform. Sharma was most recently at Instacart, where she was chief operating officer… Read More
Five evenings a week, sometimes more, Carmen Figueroa gets into her car, signs into her GrubHub account and sets out for a night of deliveries. She averages three-to-four deliveries an… Read More
— Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Nitin Sood as its first-ever chief commercial officer. Sood will report to Adaptive Biotech CEO Chad Robins. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sood… Read More
Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics. Her announcement follows… Read More
The Seattle City Council is once again embroiled in a legal dispute with a gig economy company over efforts to provide labor protections to the workers that power the industry.… Read More
The coronavirus pandemic has made grocery and food delivery workers essential while exposing the inequities and shortfalls of an on-demand workforce left out of a social safety net built on… Read More
Instacart said it may not be able to continue operating in Seattle if a law requiring hazard pay for delivery workers passes next week. The grocery delivery company warned customers about… Read More
Seattle startup Dumpling raised $3 million for a personal shopping platform that flips the economics of the gig economy upside down. The investment round was led by Floodgate with participation… Read More
Amazon is laying the groundwork to return Whole Foods to growth mode, adding new stores in the suburbs and states where the upscale grocery chain doesn’t currently have a presence,… Read More
Starting next year, Instacart will begin removing in-store shoppers from Whole Foods stores, signaling the end of a four-year partnership that went on life support the moment Amazon acquired the… Read More
A new national survey shows it’s a two-store race when it comes to buying groceries online, but there’s no clear leader overall. The research from the Retail Feedback Group finds… Read More
Instacart’s valuation just spiked to $7.6 billion as the grocery delivery giant announced a fresh $600 million investment round on Tuesday led by D1 Capital Partners. The investment follows a… Read More
Of the six workers who gathered to share their experiences in the gig economy at a Seattle event last week, two had experienced homelessness in the past few years. They agreed it… Read More
Walmart is stepping up its grocery delivery service through an agreement with Postmates to take on Amazon and Instacart in the highly competitive arena. Walmart previously announced plans to expand its… Read More
Instacart has landed another $150 million to continue battling Amazon’s invasion of its rapid grocery delivery turf. The money is an extension of a $200 million Series E round in… Read More
A big battle is brewing over the delivery of milk, fruit and cheese, and how Americans will spend their hard-earned dollars on groceries. Walmart today unveiled an aggressive plan to… Read More
QFC is teaming up with Instacart to provide grocery delivery at most of its stores in the Seattle and Portland areas, furthering a partnership between the grocer’s parent company Kroger… Read More
Last month at the GeekWire Summit Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta said Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion would be a “blessing in disguise” for his company. Turns out… Read More
Restaurant delivery powerhouse Postmates is expanding into the grocery world. The well-funded San Francisco startup today announced a new grocery delivery program in Manhattan, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The familiarly… Read More
Executives, scientists, and politicians say the darnedest things. The casual-yet-focused discussions on stage at the GeekWire Summit led top names across the entire range of the technology spectrum to share… Read More
Amazon’s blockbuster deal to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion shocked the foundation of the grocery/retail world, and it also put grocery delivery startup Instacart in an awkward spot.… Read More
The grocery and delivery markets are rapidly changing, and Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta — a former supply chain engineer at Amazon — has seen it all. Mehta is… Read More
When Amazon announced its intention to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in June, it sent shockwaves through the grocery and delivery industries. Shares of grocery chains plummeted and speculation swirled… Read More
We’re going to open the 2017 GeekWire Summit with a jolt. Kevin Johnson, the respected technology executive who was named the new Starbucks CEO earlier this year, will kick off our… Read More
Whole Foods may love Instacart, but there’s no love lost between the delivery startup and the grocery chain’s acquirer, Amazon, which is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion under a… Read More
Grocery delivery startup Instacart has raised a $400 million round as it battles Amazon and others for grocery delivery supremacy. Previous investor Sequoia Capital led the funding round, which reportedly values the… Read More
PCC Natural Markets is teaming with Instacart to get in on the curbside-pickup game that appears to be the next trend in how busy shoppers get their groceries. The community-owned chain of… Read More
The on-demand convenience store delivery startup goPuff — which promises thousands of products at your fingertips in 30 minutes — is adding beer and wine to the list with the… Read More
Updated with comment from PCC CEO Cate Hardy. Amazon is expanding its Prime Now one- and two-hour delivery service in Seattle to include delivery from local stores, starting with two popular independent grocery chains:… Read More
