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Instacart is going public. For real, this time.

Fri, 08/18/2023 - 13:33

An Instacart shopper at a ShopRite store in New Jersey — Instacart is reportedly targeting an IPO as soon as September. It's not the first time the grocery delivery company has tried to go public.
Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

Retail, Food, Grocery, instacart, Delivery, eCommerce, IPO

Whole Foods is attracting extreme couponers who are sharing tips on TikTok for saving money at the supermarket once known as 'whole paycheck'

Thu, 08/17/2023 - 17:37

whole foods grocery shopper — Whole Foods may seem like a surprising place for extreme couponers, but the company has spent years cutting prices.
Associated Press

Retail, Grocery, Whole Foods, Food, Shopping, Stores, Coupon

Walmart vs Target: When it comes to groceries it's not really a competition

Thu, 08/17/2023 - 14:27

A customer at a Walmart checkout line — Walmart sells more groceries than any other retailer in America.
Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Retail, walmart, Target, Grocery, E-Commerce

Gig workers are tracking customers who reduce tips after delivery by marking their homes on Google Maps

Thu, 08/17/2023 - 05:00

Instacart delivery — Workers for Instacart and other gig services are tracking which houses tip bait, including by marking offending addresses on Google Maps.
David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Retail, Food, eCommerce, Delivery, instacart, Shopping, Grocery

Trader Joe's executives say employees will never be replaced by self checkout and he insists those chatty cashiers are not trained to flirt

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:02

A Trader Joes cashier and customer — She's not flirting with you.
PAUL J. RICHARDS /Getty Images

Retail, Grocery, Shopping, Trader Joe's, Self-Checkout

An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 11:52

A male Instacart shopper wearing black jacket with the white Adidas stripes on the sleeves pushes a shopping cart with bags of groceries from Ralph's while wearing a surgical mask in a parking lot. — Instacart shoppers aren't allowed to give customers the paper receipt from their trip the store when they deliver groceries and other goods for the service.
Dania Maxwell/LA Times via Getty Images

Retail, Tech Insider, Grocery, Food, instacart, Delivery, eCommerce

Leaked photos show a Dollar General store with rat-chewed products, a dead rodent, and fecal matter covering the stockroom floor.

Tue, 08/15/2023 - 05:00

A bag of pet food sits in a metal carrier in a Hutto, Texas Dollar General store. A hole chewed by a rat through the bag is visible. — A chewed up bag of pet food at a Dollar General store in Texas. It's one of the latest examples of a dollar store to face a rodent infestation.
Insider source

Retail, Dollar General, Dollar Store, Rat, Food, Grocery, Stores

An Instacart customer was charged $2,783.25 for a Kroger order of $282 she never received. 'My heart stopped.'

Mon, 08/14/2023 - 11:58

Kroger — A Kroger shopper in Ohio said that she was charged $2,783.25, about 10 times what she should've been, for an order of groceries for delivery.
Paul Sancya/AP

Retail, kroger, Grocery, Delivery, eCommerce, Stores, Shopping

Beyond Meat's newest ad targets meat industry attacks about plant-based food being ultra-processed and unhealthy

Mon, 08/07/2023 - 12:29

Beyond Meat's new ad — A snapshot of Beyond Meat's latest ad.
Courtesy of Beyond Meat

Retail, Beyond Meat, plant-based, Food, Shopping, Grocery

Instacart shoppers say the highest-earning orders are getting more extreme, with demands like 72-mile drives

Fri, 08/04/2023 - 15:55

Instacart — Instacart shoppers say high-earning batches from Instacart have become big tasks, asking them to shop and deliver hundreds of products to a customer over an hour away.
Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Retail, instacart, Delivery, eCommerce, Grocery, Shopping, Gig

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