Instacart Launches “Priority Delivery” & Introduces 30-Minute Grocery Delivery

May 28, 2021 Instacart

Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America, today introduced “Priority Delivery,” a new experience that unlocks faster grocery delivery for customers across the U.S. and Canada. As part of this launch, customers in some of the largest cities in the U.S. will now have access to grocery delivery in as fast as 30 minutes.

Amazon Was Supposed To Kill Instacart. Instead Instacart Became a Mini-Amazon

Instacart increasingly resembles Amazon, with hundreds of thousands of workers, deliveries that range from food to office supplies, and reported interest in building high-tech warehouses.

Instacart Appoints Operations and Product Leader Asha Sharma as Chief Operating Officer

February 9, 2021 Instacart

Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America, today announced it has appointed Asha Sharma as Chief Operating Officer. Sharma joins the company in mid-February and will report directly to Instacart Founder and Chief Executive Officer Apoorva Mehta.

Instacart Will Lay Off All of Its Unionized Workers

January 22, 2021 Lauren Kaori Gurley, Vice

The termination of the only unionized Instacart workers in the United States is part of larger layoffs at the company.

Instacart Sees Business Skyrocket During the Pandemic—While Exploiting Workers and Even Failing to Turn a Profit

Instacart, the grocery delivery service, is booming, with sales up 500 percent year-over-year and the company cruising to a $17.7 billion valuation. Their workforce—of mostly low-paid contract workers—has swelled to 500,000 people while the company has taken in $500 million in investment since March. And yet, somehow, Instacart is also losing unimaginable sums of money.