For years, customers of the Whole Foods store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco’s Ingleside district were greeted by a familiar sight: professional shoppers from the Instacart Inc grocery delivery business combing the aisles.
After selecting groceries for online customers, they would stage the finished bags in a spacious room on the store’s lower level, where the completed orders were picked up for home delivery.
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