#Federal Trade Commission

#Federal Trade Commission

The FTC said Thursday that Instacart has been falsely advertising free deliveries. The San Francisco-based company isn't clearly disclosing service fees, which add as much as 15% to an order and must be paid for customers to receive their groceries, the FTC said. Instacart has also failed to clearly disclose that customers who enroll in a free trial for its Instacart+ program will be charged membership fees at the end of the trial.

The Federal Trade Commission, like other federal agencies, posted a simple notice on its website at the start of fiscal 2026: "The FTC is closed as of midnight Wednesday, October 1, 2025, due to the lapse in government funding." What the notice did not say was that the announcement came during the year of a grim anniversary for the FTC: Forty-five years ago, it became the first government agency ever to shut down due to a lack of appropriations.

"The Rule's illegality was patently obvious,"

U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan found the attempted firing of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter unlawful, affirming her status as a rightful Federal Trade Commission member.