Wellness

Instacart Mandates Wellness Checks As It Seeks 250,000 More Hires

Instacart Mandates Wellness Checks  As It Seeks 250,000 More Hires
Instacart Mandates Wellness Checks As It Seeks 250,000 More Hires
April 23, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Within a 30-day period, Instacart has hired 300,000 more people, instituted mandatory wellness checks and stepped up efforts to ensure the safety of its workforce....

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Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future
Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future
April 16, 2020  |  Retail

Hundreds of retailers – both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and traditional – have lent their expertise and capital to helping the world recover from the devastation of...

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Amazon CEO Bezos Seeks COVID-19 Testing For Staff
Amazon CEO Bezos Seeks COVID-19 Testing For Staff
April 16, 2020  |  Retail

With the first move toward a system of checks on workers around the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce retailer is creating COVID-19...

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Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model
Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model
April 10, 2020  |  Retail

The rapidly evolving telehealth category has a new business model. Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop digital diabetes prevention program (DPP) – has partnered with...

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Healthy Snack Company Rewrites Its Wellness Story
Healthy Snack Company Rewrites Its Wellness Story
April 07, 2020  |  Retail

When the chapter is finally written on business during the COVID-19 crisis, there will be stories of the companies that simply fell victim to the...

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Elon Musk Offers To Make Ventilators Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Elon Musk Offers To Make Ventilators Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
March 19, 2020  |  Coronavirus

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to make good on his offer to manufacture ventilators to...

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Can One Startup Fill The US Coronavirus Testing Gap?
Can One Startup Fill The US Coronavirus Testing Gap?
March 19, 2020  |  Coronavirus

While there is no shortage of individual negative effects of the COVID-19 epidemic, the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic’s effect on people in the U.S....

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Navigating The Overstuffed Weight Loss Market
Navigating The Overstuffed Weight Loss Market
February 19, 2020  |  Retail

The fact that obesity has grown to epidemic proportions in the U.S. and around the world is, regrettably, old news at this point. According to...

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ClassPass Lands $285M To Scale Fitness Marketplace
ClassPass Lands $285M To Scale Fitness Marketplace
January 08, 2020  |  Subscriptions

International fitness and wellness marketplace ClassPass has notched $285 million in a Series E funding round led by L Catterton and Apax Digital, with support...

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