Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles

Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by Alex3917 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:16PM (#25867432)

> I don’t understand why there aren’t ghost groceries, similar to ghost kitchens or warehouses.

There are. FreshDirect has a state-of-the-art facility in the Bronx, and I'm sure Amazon has several ghost groceries also -- e.g. they just bought two Fairways locations.

Check out this video of the FreshDirect facility, it's actually pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIrwrCq_4Q

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Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by satya71 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:43PM (#25867670)

Pretty cool. Fresh Direct got started early and they rewired the entire supply chain. That's a tall order.

Instacart and the local grocery store should be able to work together to make incremental changes to what they are doing today. That seems like the low hanging fruit that could be put into operation in short order.

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Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by 0x1F8B on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:41PM (#25868050)

I lived in NYC for 11 years and the only things I miss are my friends and Fresh Direct.

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Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by thebean11 on Friday January 22, 2021 @10:37AM (#25872527)

That makes me want to try it, I never did because I figured it would be as bad of an experience as Instacart when I lived in Austin.

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