After public criticism, Instacart promised an end to dynamic pricing, even though the process creates the margins that make these networks work.

Trying to shop at Costco without a membership is tricky at best. The company obviously wants you to sign up, since its entire business structure depends on customers paying annual fees for accessing ...

Instacart has quietly turned grocery shopping into a personalized pricing experiment, where two people ordering the same carton of eggs from the same store can be charged different amounts without ...

Instacart said it will no longer allow retailers to run AI pricing tests on its grocery delivery platform after the practice drew widespread scrutiny. A study released earlier this month showed that ...

Instacart has quietly been charging different customers different prices for the same groceries at the same store, and the practice could cost shoppers an extra $1,200 annually, according to a study ...

Grocery delivery giant Instacart will pay $60 million in consumer refunds under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after the agency accused the company of misleading shoppers and ...

As of Monday, New York City customers ordering from Instacart will now pay an additional fee. The fixed $5.99 fee, labeled “NYC regulatory response fee” on the company’s website, is intended to offset ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is demanding more information about Instacart’s recent and highly controversial price tests, and suggesting that the scheme—which saw customers charged notably ...

Normally, it costs $50 to access all the recipes from New York Times Cooking. A subscription to this food and grocery delivery app makes it free.

The original poster said they were feeling lazy and nearly placed an Instacart order. But curiosity kicked in. “I cancelled the order and went to the store (Wegmans) to buy the exact items,” they ...

It’s a fresh new fee! Instacart abruptly began hitting New Yorkers with yet another fee this week — blaming sweeping changes to the city’s grocery delivery laws for the new charge, The Post has ...