Instacart's CEO says that warehouses full of robots won't replace its gig workers anytime soon

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Instacart CEO Fidji Simo spoke during the company's second-ever earnings call on Tuesday.

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Bots are some DoorDash and Walmart Spark delivery gig workers' dirty secret

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A DoorDash delivery worker in New York City.

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Walmart offered to pay Spark drivers as little as 52 cents per order after a 'temporary' app issue

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Walmart Spark drivers say pay has declined from highs early in the pandemic.

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I'm a gig worker who argued for Seattle's new minimum pay laws. Now, I'm fighting for my Instacart job.

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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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Walmart's facial ID tool to combat fraudulent Spark delivery drivers is kicking legitimate workers off the app

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A customer in the parking lot of a Walmart store

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Starbucks is trialing late-night coffee deliveries for people who get midnight caffeine cravings

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Amazon delivered a box of cookies by drone to someone 15 minutes and 29 seconds after they ordered

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An Amazon delivery drone is on display at Amazon's BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts on November 10, 2022

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You might be paying twice as much by ordering takeout food on DoorDash or Postmates, new study says

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Ordering fast food for delivery can be expensive.

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I'm a delivery driver and I get better tips from apartments than gated communities

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A delivery driver in Arkansas says she's noticed that customers in higher-income neighborhoods tend to tip less than those in lower-income apartments.

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Why is your grocery delivery taking so long? Your driver has 2 other deliveries.

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A shopper wearing a baseball cap loads several cases of bottled water onto an orange flat-bed cart at a Costco store.
Shoppers for Instacart, Walmart Spark, and other gig delivery services say batching orders weighs down their earnings.

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