Business & Tech Onetime ‘Law & Order’ Star Says Instacart Driver Shot and Killed Her Dog, Instacart Suspends Driver Late 1990s ‘Law & Order’ actor Angie Harmon is fuming publicly that an Instacart driver allegedly shot and killed her dog Saturday, and Instacart has sidelined that driver while police investigate.
Business & Tech SF-Based Instacart Goes Public In First Big Tech IPO In Two Years Instacart had its initial public offering today, landing on the NASDAQ exchange under the stock symbol "CART." The IPO raised $660 million, with shares popping 43% in initial trading, temporarily giving the company a valuation of $14 billion.
Business & Tech Instacart Calls Off Its Planned IPO, as Tech Stocks Are Tanking Across the Board A much-ballyhooed Instacart IPO has been put on the shelf, as tech companies that boomed during the pandemic are now suffering a cruel correction.
SF News Instacart Workers Sue Company Over Independent Contractor Status Independent contractors working for grocery-delivery company Instacart are once again suing the company, with their employment status at the heart of the dispute for a second time. The suit, reports Consumerist, was filed
SF News Instacart's Independent Contractors Score Big Win After Threatening Strike Instacart's "shoppers," a.k.a. independent contractors, forced the grocery-delivery startup to back down on a proposed major change to worker compensation in the face of a planned strike. In a blog post
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SpoonRocket Shuts Down On Same Day That UberEats Launches Standalone App On-demand meal delivery service SpoonRocket announced today that it is shutting down, effective immediately. The Berkeley-based company, reports TechCrunch, was unable to secure additional funding and when a last-ditch effort at negotiating an
SF News After Raising Delivery Fees, Struggling Instacart Cuts Driver Pay By 63% It's not easy being a grocery delivery startup! Just ask Webvan, the dot-bomb-era delivery service that flamed out so spectacularly in 2001 that its name is synonymous with early 00s startup excess. Is
SF News Google Express To Test Timeliness With Perishable Goods Deliveries Not content to merely drive toilet paper to your front door as the company's service does currently, Google Express — the delivery arm of Alphabet, FKA Google — now seeks to become a go-to provider
SF News Instacart To Raise Delivery Fees Following Layoffs Grocery delivery company Instacart yesterday announced that it would raise the minimum delivery fee it charges by 50 percent. This price increase follows shortly after the company, reportedly valued at $2 billion last
SF News Google To Take On Amazon And Instacart With Expanded Grocery Delivery In SF Later This Year In a fairly predictable move, Google Express will be trying to expand into the delivery-from-Whole Foods market by testing the service in SF later this year, according to a Google Express manager who
SF News After Lyft And Uber, Now Postmates And Caviar Delivery People Are Suing To Be Made Employees Following on the potentially major lawsuits against Uber and Lyft about their classification of drivers as independent contractors, delivery people working for services like Postmates, Instacart, and Caviar have also filed suit to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are Caviar, SpoonRocket, And Instacart Doomed To Go The Way Of Kozmo And Webvan? Remember when you could order two CDs for $20 delivered to your door in a half hour with a free cookie? No? Well that was part of the failed business model of Kozmo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bi-Rite Now Offers Same-Day Delivery Starting today (July 22), you can have Bi-Rite Market's goodies delivered direct to your door. It’s only available in San Francisco and through the web and mobile app Instacart, which charges a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Instacart Now Delivering Same-Day Rainbow Grocery Starting today, Instacart will deliver for Rainbow Grocery. The delivery service sealed the deal with the popular and conscientious co-op, meaning that you'll be able to get to city's most respected grocer's items
