Grocery store announces home delivery service
QFC announced it will began offering home delivery to its Sequim customers on Sept. 20, through a partnership with Instacart, an on-demand retail delivery service. Customers looking to place an order for delivery will be able to do so at www.qfc.com/delivery.
Store customers place their orders through the “Delivery” link at www.qfc.com. The customer enters the zip code where the delivery is scheduled, then chooses from 40,000 offered products, including perishables.
Once the customer has completed building the online basket, a preferred delivery time between 9 a.m.-midnight can be selected. An Instacart shopper then hand-picks the items and delivers the order within a preferred one-hour time window. The home delivery fee will be waived for first-time customers.
Founded in Seattle more than 60 years ago, QFC is headquartered in Bellevue and operates 63 stores in Western Washington and in Portland, Ore.
Save the date: OP Tourism Summit
“We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat,” a discussion about sustainable local tourism, is the theme for the 2018 Olympic Peninsula Tourism Summit, set to start in late October.
The summit, centered at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles, begins with the Olympic Culinary Loop “Lunch and Learn” session on Wednesday, Oct. 31. The tourism summit continues Nov. 1-2 in Port Angeles.
Email to info@olympicpeninsula.org for more information.
Voting open in edg3 FUND competition
Sequim Bee Farm is among 15 semi-finalists in Kitsap Bank’s 2018 edg3 FUND small business competition
Voting in the competition, available at www.kitsapbank.com/business/edg3-fund/edg3-fund-vote/, is open through Sept. 28. The five small businesses that advance as finalists will compete for $20,000 at the edg3 FUND Live Event on Nov.1 5.
The mission of edg3 FUND is to recognize entrepreneurs dedicated to growing their community in three ways: economically, socially and environmentally.
Other local companies selected included The Cocoa Forge of Port Townsend, Kodama Farm and Food Forest of Chimacum, and Kayak Brinnon of Brinnon.
Sequim Bee Farm (www.sequimbeefarm.com) was a Kitsap Bank Edg3 Fund finalist in 2016.
Washington Coast Works seeking apps for competition
The Washington Coast Works Business Competition is seeking applications from those with ideas and energy to create or expand a small business that strives towards a triple bottom line: profit, people and place.
Applications for this year’s competition will be due by Oct. 15. Applications and instructions can be downloaded at www.wacoastworks.org/apply.
Up to 15 finalists will be selected to join the growing Coast Works Alliance, participate in intensive training on sustainable entrepreneurship, receive ongoing one-on-one technical assistance, connect to mentors and present their business case statement at a fast-pitch event for a chance to win up to $10,000.
See www.wacoastworks.org or contact Mike Skinner at 206-235-6029.
