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A bicycle courier from Uber Eats rides his bicycle during the heatwave in Utrecht
Delivering food or driving passengers for Uber isn't the only type of gig work anymore.

Gig work has never been more widespread — and more challenging.

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Customers walk through holiday shopping displays at a Walmart Supercenter retail store in North Bergen, New Jersey, U.S., November 21, 2025.
Walmart fulfills 2.5X more express delivery orders in December than it does during the rest of the year.
Tech Insider : Business, Style
An employee picks orders for customers at an Amazon Fresh grocery store on December 12, 2024 in Federal Way, Washington.
Many companies have tried to offer ultrafast delivery. Can Amazon and Walmart succeed where others have failed?
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Postal workers wearing Santa hats, sort through mail and packages during a media tour hosted by the US Postal Service at the Los Angeles Processing and Distribution Center on November 30, 2023.
The race is on to see who can deliver the cheer like Saint Nick.
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Uber
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Starship delivery robots at the University of Nevada, Reno are pictured.
Starship, Robot.com, and Avride have emerged as the primary competitors for campus robot deliveries.
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A woman holds a paper shopping bag above one of Serve's four-wheeled delivery robots, which has a white body with a red, triangular flag above it.
Serve Robotics is launching a partnership with DoorDash.
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A woman collects a grocery delivery order from her doorstep.
Retailers like Walmart, Amazon, and Target are competing to see who can get orders fulfilled the quickest.
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A woman wearing a red winter coat loads bags of groceries into the back of a white SUV in a store parking lot as the sun sets in the background and a bare tree stands behind her.
Instacart CEO Chris Rogers said the company got calls from supermarket chains in the wake of Amazon's grocery delivery expansion.
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A customer walks into a Dollar General store though the parking lot in Austin, Texas. A compact Volkswagen car sits in front of the store, with the yellow
A Dollar General developer sued Nottawa Township after it denied a rezoning request that would have paved the way for a dollar store in the town.