An AI-powered bot could take your next drive-thru order at one of these top fast-food restaurants

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White Castle SoundHound
A voice bot screen greets drive-thru customers at White Castle.

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Some Instacart customers are losing hundreds of dollars to scammers after connecting bank accounts or Paypal to the app

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A woman with red hair puts a box of Wheat Thins in a brown paper grocery bag sitting in a cart at a Safeway grocery store in early 2020.
Some Instacart users are reportedly out hundreds of dollars after placing orders on the grocery delivery app that never arrived.

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Cargill ingredients are probably in every meal you eat. That makes the company's environmental goals a big deal.

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Pilar Cruz, chief sustainability officer at Cargill.

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A fast-food restaurant splashed out $12,000 on a bizarre sandwich costume that was auctioned off by a provincial government

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A giant donair costume auctioned off by the Government of Alberta
The Government of Alberta said the costume "was a prop for an advertising campaign and is no longer required by the department."

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A California-based Korean BBQ chain attracting Wall Street and meat lovers is now expanding across the US — see what it's like to dine there

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A grill with meat and pineapples on top
Gen Korean BBQ is a meat lover's paradise that's quickly expanding across the US.

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Instacart is going public. For real, this time.

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An Instacart shopper at a ShopRite store in New Jersey
Instacart is reportedly targeting an IPO as soon as September. It's not the first time the grocery delivery company has tried to go public.

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Whole Foods is attracting extreme couponers who are sharing tips on TikTok for saving money at the supermarket once known as 'whole paycheck'

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Whole Foods may seem like a surprising place for extreme couponers, but the company has spent years cutting prices.

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Take a look inside Wendy's tech-focused new-look restaurants. To collect a mobile order you park in a dedicated spot and collect your food from a pickup shelf.

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The interior of a Wendy's next gen restaurant

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

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Instacart delivery
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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A male Instacart shopper wearing black jacket with the white Adidas stripes on the sleeves pushes a shopping cart with bags of groceries from Ralph's while wearing a surgical mask in a parking lot.
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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