Smart shopping carts with customized ads are the future of grocery shopping, according to Instacart

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A customer pushes a Caper smart shopping cart filled with groceries. A screen, displaying an ad for Annie's mac and cheese, is seen just above the handle, and there's a payment terminal on the left side of the cart.
Instacart is launching ads on its Caper smart shopping carts.

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Walmart spent years growing Spark, its own gig-economy delivery service. But Walmart Spark workers say challenges became clear in 2023.

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A man delivers a Walmart bag of groceries to a woman at her front door.
Spark, Walmart's gig-worker powered delivery service, faced scrutiny from workers in 2023.

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The golden age of working for Instacart, DoorDash, and other delivery apps is over, workers say

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A woman wearing sunglasses and carrying a red DoorDash-branded insulated bag walks away from an SUV with its back hatch open in a neighborhood in Palo Alto, California at the start of the COVID pandemic. A hybrid car parked in a driveway is visible in the background.
Delivery gig work isn't as lucrative as it was in 2020, gig workers told Business Insider.

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Target's delivery service Shipt is pausing operations in Seattle as a host of new laws are set to change the delivery space

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Shipt employee delivering groceries
Shipt is reportedly pausing service in Seattle.

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7 Amazon retail stumbles, from grocery delivery to clothing stores

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A close up of a woman touching a screen in a fitting room
Until November, Amazon Style had two store locations in the US.

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Easy and lucrative side hustles to try this holiday season for extra pay amid inflation and high interest rates

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A person walking three dogs
Pet sitting can be a side hustle to try during the holidays.

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People craved spicy food in 2023 – and loved adding pickles to pretty much everything

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pickled cucumbers of small size on a dark concrete background

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You Can Now Order Best Buy With DoorDash, but You Shouldn't

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Want your tech delivered to your home with the same anxiety-inducing speed as your local pizza delivery guy? DoorDash said it was now working with Best Buy to offer door-to-door delivery for tech products, though your average food delivery guy might need a bigger bike if he’s to lug that massive 50-inch flatscreen…

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Amazon Takes the Delivery Throne From UPS and FedEx

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Amazon will deliver more packages in 2023 than anyone, according to a report Monday from the Wall Street Journal.

Chick-fil-A sells wings through a spinoff restaurant called Little Blue Menu. I tried them and liked them a lot better than CFA's signature chicken sandwich.

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side-by-side images of Insider reporter Alex Bitter standing outside the Little Blue Menu in College Park, Maryland, and a close-up of chicken wings at Little Blue Menu.
Little Blue Menu is Chick-fil-A's attempt to break into two new menu items: chicken wings and burgers.

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