Instacart delivers from Whole Foods Market in all of the 15 cities it currently serves: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Colorado, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, San Jose, California, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The two companies will pilot the in-store pickup option at select Austin and Boston stores in the next month. Customers will soon also have the convenient option to place orders via Instacart and pick up their order at a local participating Whole Foods Market store. 8, 2014) – Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) and one-hour grocery delivery service Instacart announced today a new partnership that enables customers to have Whole Foods Market products delivered in as little as one hour. So take heed, kids: A sixer of Yuengling isn’t worth losing your job.AUSTIN, Texas (Sept. Tread carefully: Left unsaid in the Fast Company piece is that in an era of capped bonuses andĭownsized cups, Wall Street accounting departments aren’t likely to look fondly on Seamless chicanery. She said that with the new reduction, ‘I can’t order my Perrier anymore.'” The next day, as legend has it, there was an entire case of Perrier on her desk. Mack, not really having paid much attention to expenses, was surprised to hear it had been reduced. One of the women on the call asked Mack to raise the limit to $30 again. Carr, one gutsy Morgan Stanley employee responded to the bank’s lowered Seamless limit by taking it up with John J. Take your complaints to the top: According to a (perhaps-apocryphal) story told to Mr. Seamless’s chief executive, Jonathan Zabusky, says. “You see these orders come through, and you’re like, ‘Why are 20 rolls of toilet paper going to 200 Vesey Street?” Pizza order for other nonfood grocery items before the delivery goes out. However, there is a workaround: calling the restaurant or deli and manually subbing out your Have a $90 dinner of steak, lobster, mac & cheese, and calamari,” one banker tells the magazine.Ĭall ahead: Most banks block employees from ordering beer, cigarettes and other nonfood items on Seamless. “Almost every weekend I was at the office, I’d Pool your resources: If co-workers aren’t in the office, combining their allowances with yours can multiply your purchasing power. “I’d finish work around 6:30 p.m., hit the company gym, and then grab my sushi - spicy tuna rolls - on the way out,” one banker tells Mr. Pull a time switch: If your bank allows Seamless dinner only after 8 p.m., you can schedule a delivery, then override the time requirement by calling the restaurant and asking for an immediate delivery According to Fast Company’s Austin Carr, there are other tricks to coaxĮvery dime of value out of a $25 meal allowance. We’ve heard of bank analysts using their Seamless allowances for beer, Five-Hour Energy drinks and other after-hours essentials. Now, withīudgets tight, some banks have downsized to $25 a person, and moved the time several hours later.įast Company is out with an article about how value-minded Wall Streeters can game the Seamless system. Before the financial crisis, the arrangement was typically fairly generous – $30 or $35 for employees staying past 6 p.m. Banks typically allot employees a given amount for lunch,Īnd a bigger dinner budget for workers who stay past a certain hour. Seamless, of course, is the Web food-delivery service most large financial firms use to facilitate their meal orders. Brendan McDermid/Reuters Seamless, an online delivery service, is partnered with restaurants in more than 30 cities in the United States and Britain.įor young Wall Street types, few deals matter more than the ones taking place at 7 p.m.
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