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Instacart will begin offering its retail partners a new Partner Pick model, which will allow stores to rely on their own employees to utilize Instacart's technology and fulfill orders for customers. "As a result of some grocers transitioning to a Partner Pick model, we’ll be winding down our in-store operations at select retailer locations over the coming months," an Instacart spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement Thursday. "We know this is an incredibly challenging time for many as we move through the COVID-19 crisis, and we’re doing everything we can to support in-store sh...

Instacart to let go of hundreds of its shopper employees -- including those who unionized CNN 1/21/2021 By Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business © Michael Loccisano/Getty Images WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 26: Clark resident Jen Valencia still works part time for Instacart at Wegman's market on August 26, 2020 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The pandemic has prompted a major spike in on-demand grocery shopping and delivery, making Instacart profitable for the first time since its founding in 2012. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) Last February, a group of Instacart e...

Instacart said in the letter it plans to "transition" how it works with Kroger "no sooner than mid-March."

Labor advocates called on Instacart to reverse a decision to lay off hundreds of employees, including the company's only workers to belong to a union.

Instacart is cutting more than 1,800 jobs, including its only unionized workers Last February, a group of Instacart employees who worked as in-store shoppers at a Mariano’s grocery store in Skokie, Illinois, voted to unionize in a historic moment for the gig economy. Nearly one year later, those workers have been informed that their jobs are being cut as part of a broader change to how Instacart does business with some grocers, including Kroger and Kroger-owned Mariano’s stores. Instacart has informed the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which represents the ...