'Pandemic venture' Grocery Outpost shuts down

Seven months after Ethan Pierce and Emma Snyder launched a platform that enables restaurants to sell groceries locally, called Grocery Outpost, the pair is shutting the venture down. Grocery Outpost launched in April after Pierce and Snyder both found themselves staring down the prospect of unemployment. Pierce had been working as a consultant with Techstars Boston teams that no longer had the runway to hire him, while Snyder was one of the more than 1,000 workers laid off from restaurant payments…