• Whole Foods‘ groceries are no longer available on Instacart.
• Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta announced that the company’s partnership with Whole Foods would be winding down in a blog post on Thursday.
• Instacart had exclusive rights to Whole Foods delivery before it was acquired by Amazon in June 2017.

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Whole Foods groceries are no longer available on Instacart.

On Thursday, Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta announced the news in a blog post. He said that the company had ended its partnership with Amazon-owned grocery chain Whole Foods and that the service would be slowly phased out over the coming months.

“We expect to ramp down all remaining Whole Foods in-store shopping operations in preparation for Whole Foods to fully exit our marketplace in the coming months,” he said.

There are 1,415 in-store Instacart shoppers who work specifically on Whole Foods deliveries, picking groceries in its stores. These workers will be directly impacted by the change and for 243 of them, it will mean losing their job picking food at Whole Foods from 10 February 2019.

“For our in-store Whole Foods shoppers who are personally impacted by this news, we’re deeply committed to being transparent about what this means for you and plan to share any updates with you as they become available,” Mehta said.

He continued: “We expect to be able to place more than 75% of all our impacted in-store Whole Foods shoppers in new in-store shopper jobs at another retailer in their area. For our remaining impacted shoppers, we are committed to doing everything we can to support you.”

This story is developing.

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