{"id":555,"date":"2018-06-22T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/instacart-hires-alaska-lobbyist\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:55:33","slug":"instacart-hires-alaska-lobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/instacart-hires-alaska-lobbyist\/","title":{"rendered":"Instacart hires Alaska lobbyist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National internet grocery firm Instacart has hired an Alaska lobbyist, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.state.ak.us\/ApocReports\/Lobbying\/View\/LORView.aspx?ID=10475\" target=\"_blank\">filings released June 20<\/a> by the Alaska Public Offices Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Instacart, which promises to home-deliver groceries from Costco and other retailers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/business-economy\/2018\/05\/28\/grocery-delivery-service-instacart-is-about-to-launch-in-anchorage\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched its Alaska business May 31 in Anchorage<\/a>. It has not yet expanded outside the city.<\/p>\n<p>According to corporate filings, Instacart operates in Alaska under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.alaska.gov\/cbp\/main\/Search\/EntityDetail\/10085485\" target=\"_blank\">Maplebear Alaska LLC<\/a> and is a registered Delaware corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Instacart&rsquo;s lobbyist is Patrick Carter of Anchorage. According to filings, Carter&rsquo;s $2,000 per-month contract starts July 2 and covers &ldquo;any and all aspects associated with the Instacart business interests.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Contacted by phone, Carter said there are &ldquo;no plans right now&rdquo; for him to lobby on regulatory or legislative changes in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Alaska Legislature passed legislation allowing ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft to operate here, the companies had an extensive lobbying effort in the Capitol.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>&#8226; Contact reporter James Brooks at jbrooks@juneauempire.com or 523-2258.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet grocery firm Instacart has hired an Alaska lobbyist, according to filings released June 20 by the Alaska Public Offices Commission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[34,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}