After being awarded the only available liquor license on June 5, Festival Foods plans to open a location at the site of the old Hudson House Grand Hotel in the
Skogen’s Foodliner, Inc. was awarded a liquor license by the Hudson Common Council ahead of plans to open a Festival Foods grocery store at the site of the old Hudson
Instacart Is a Parasite and a Sham
The gig company, like many of its peers, has seen business skyrocket during the pandemic while exploiting workers and even failing to turn a profit.
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Instacart worker Jen Valencia shops for a customer at Acme Market in Clark, New Jersey, in April. The pandemic has devastated wide swaths of the U.S. economy, causing
about 25 percent of small businesses to close, many of them for good. But some companies have thrived amid this catastrophe indeed, thrived
because of it. Instacart, the grocery delivery service, is booming, with sales up 500 percent year-over-year and the company cruising to a $17.7 billion valuation. Their workforce of mostly low-paid contract workers has swelled to 500,000 people while the company has taken in $500 million in investment since March.