Gig workers are tracking customers who reduce tips after delivery by marking their homes on Google Maps

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Workers for Instacart and other gig services are tracking which houses tip bait, including by marking offending addresses on Google Maps.

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An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt

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Instacart shoppers aren't allowed to give customers the paper receipt from their trip the store when they deliver groceries and other goods for the service.

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An Instacart customer was charged $2,783.25 for a Kroger order of $282 she never received. 'My heart stopped.'

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A Kroger shopper in Ohio said that she was charged $2,783.25, about 10 times what she should've been, for an order of groceries for delivery.

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Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don't leave a gratuity, you'll hear about it.

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DoorDash drivers hope to earn more tips with the app's new post-checkout tipping feature
DoorDash is the latest delivery service to nudge customers who don't tip the worker who delivers their food.

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An Uber Eats rider and YouTuber says he's stopped picking up from McDonald's as it treats delivery staff badly and its drinks keep spilling

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An Uber Eats bicyclist.

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Your neighbors might soon know when you order toilet paper, trash bags, and other items from Amazon

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A small percentage of Amazon's millions of deliveries are starting to show up without its name-brand packaging, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Instacart shoppers say the highest-earning orders are getting more extreme, with demands like 72-mile drives

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Instacart shoppers say high-earning batches from Instacart have become big tasks, asking them to shop and deliver hundreds of products to a customer over an hour away.

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Amazon Fresh grocery delivery gets less exclusive: Non-Prime members can now order from some stores

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Amazon is looking to allow non-members across the US to order from Fresh by the end of 2023.

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Instacart just slashed pay for delivery drivers — from a minimum of $7 per order to $4. Now they're more reliant on your tips.

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A woman wears sunglasses and a face mask while loading plastic bags full of groceries into the trunk of a car.
Instacart cut the minimum base pay that its gig-worker delivery drivers are paid, and many say the lower pay is making it harder to earn money on the app.

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See Chick-fil-A's wild new restaurant design with a drive-thru that runs through the middle of the building

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Chick-fil-A four-lane restaurant
Chick-fil-A is debuting an elevated store design next year in Atlanta. The restaurant has four drive-thru lanes.

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