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Displaying all articles tagged:
Blue Apron
not the future
Feb. 21, 2020
What, Exactly, Is Going on With Blue Apron?
It was supposed to be the future of cooking. But now, it’s on the brink of collapse.
By
Chris Crowley
special delivery
June 5, 2018
Can Meal Kits
Ever
Catch On?
Recent moves by major players reveal an industry that simply can’t justify its own existence.
By
Hugh Merwin
May 10, 2018
Blue Apron Will Roll Out Chrissy Teigen Meal Kits
The celebrity partnership will adapt dishes from Teigen’s best-selling cookbook.
By
Clint Rainey
meal kit woes
Apr. 4, 2018
Blue Apron’s Shares Now Worth About As Much As Bodega Coffee
Shares of the troubled meal-kit company are running about $1.80 each.
By
Clint Rainey
meal kits
Mar. 15, 2018
Blue Apron Plans to Sell Its Meal Kits in Grocery Stores
It’s in “active conversations” with supermarkets.
By
Clint Rainey
meal kit woes
Feb. 14, 2018
Blue Apron Lost Over 25 Percent of Its Subscribers Last Year
A new report indicates that the number of people using Blue Apron has dropped from over 1 million to roughly 750,000.
By
Clint Rainey
food politics
Feb. 13, 2018
White House Incorrectly Compares Its Proposed Food-Stamp Program to Blue Apron
The big difference: Blue Apron’s boxes contain fresh ingredients.
By
Clint Rainey
ipos
Oct. 23, 2017
Meal-Kit Start-up HelloFresh Thinks an IPO Will Make It Worth $1.8 Billion
Has the Blue Apron rival just come out of a coma?
By
Clint Rainey
setbacks
Oct. 19, 2017
Blue Apron Laid Off Hundreds of Workers Yesterday
The CEO called it a “painful” companywide “realignment” in a letter to employees.
By
Clint Rainey
meal kit woes
Aug. 23, 2017
Blue Apron Has Started Laying Off Employees
The struggling company fired its recruiting team and announced a hiring freeze.
By
Clint Rainey
lawsuits
Aug. 22, 2017
Blue Apron Hit With Multiple Lawsuits Alleging It Misled Investors
Its historically bad IPO has brought out the lawyers.
By
Clint Rainey
meal kits
Aug. 11, 2017
Blue Apron Had the Most Disappointing IPO of the Century
Share prices rank dead last for big IPOs after six weeks since the year 2000.
By
Clint Rainey
July 25, 2017
A New Study Says Meal-Kit Services Could Actually Make You Happier
People feel good when other people do things for them, like shopping for dinner.
By
Chris Crowley
empire building
July 17, 2017
Amazon Already Registered a Trademark for a Meal-Kit Service
It wants to use the chipper motto, “We do the prep. You be the chef.”
By
Clint Rainey
meal kit woes
July 12, 2017
Blue Apron Stock Is Now Cheaper Than a Blue Apron Meal
One research firm even says the target price should be just $2 a share.
By
Clint Rainey
meal kit woes
June 30, 2017
Does Anyone Actually Like Blue Apron?
The meal-kit-delivery service’s stock-market debut was unimpressive.
By
Chris Crowley
June 29, 2017
Blue Apron Slashed Its IPO Price by a Third
Launching in the Amazon–Whole Foods aftermath is less than ideal.
By
Clint Rainey
ipos
June 19, 2017
Blue Apron Says It Could Be Worth $3 Billion After Its IPO
The Whole Foods effect is very real.
By
Clint Rainey
meats
Mar. 22, 2017
The Founder of Niman Ranch Is Partnering With Blue Apron
The meal-delivery start-up also bought Bill Niman’s BN Ranch.
By
Chris Crowley
meal kits
Nov. 3, 2016
Blue Apron Shipped Food for 3 Years Without Proper Government Approval
It registered last month, three days after a damning report came out.
By
Clint Rainey
food start-ups
Oct. 26, 2016
Nearly All Meal-Kit-Delivery Customers Bail After 6 Months
Data shows that half of Blue Apron’s leave after the first week.
By
Clint Rainey
workers’ rights
Oct. 12, 2016
Second Blue Apron Warehouse Supposedly Plagued by Ongoing Violence
A New York
Post
report claims Jersey’s distribution center is “a real fight club.”
By
Clint Rainey
Oct. 3, 2016
Did Blue Apron’s Fast Growth Create Sweatshoplike Conditions in Its Warehouse?
A report says violence, safety violations, and low pay plague the meal-kit service’s Bay Area fulfillment center.
By
Clint Rainey
food waste
Aug. 4, 2016
A New Start-Up Says It’s Solved Meal-Delivery Services’ Biggest Problem
It’s replaced kits’ tremendously wasteful packaging with a single reusable cube.
By
Clint Rainey
Interviews
Feb. 11, 2016
One of Brooklyn’s Favorite Chefs Is Headed to a Meal-Delivery Start-up
Johnathan Adler will leave Franny’s at the end of March to take over as the culinary manager of Blue Apron.
By
Alan Sytsma
The Environment
Nov. 30, 2015
Meal-Kit Deliveries Are Actually Terrible for the Environment
They’re literally full of so much garbage.
By
Clint Rainey
The Grub Street Diet
Aug. 22, 2014
Josh Lucas Starts Each Day With Café Grumpy’s Biscuits, Feasts at Hometown
“I topped of a day of burgers with a Black Angus burger.”
By
Vanita Salisbury
Lists
Mar. 31, 2014
Dominique Ansel, Jason Wang Named
Crain’s
‘40 Under
This year’s bumper crop of achievers includes the Cronut man himself.
By
Clint Rainey
Leftovers
Aug. 15, 2013
Crab Boil at Ditch Plains; Rosemary’s Pop-up at Brooklyn Grange
Plus: Blue Apron expands West, Tommy Bahama wants you to chillax, and more, in today’s Leftovers.