Scammers are using delivery apps like Instacart to swindle customers and delivery workers out of money

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A scam involves replacing items in an Instacart order with gift cards.

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Uber, Doordash, and other gig workers in Seattle may be about to face a pay reckoning

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Gig delivery workers in Seattle could get paid at a lower rate under proposed changes to the city's new pay law.

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Uber's CEO: Tesla will need us for robotaxis

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that his company could play a key role in making self-driving taxis reality.

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Uber and Instacart just formed an alliance, and they're taking aim at Doordash

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Instacart and Uber Eats are teaming up on restaurant delivery.

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A millennial Lyft driver who used the gig to explore all 50 states explains his strategies for maximizing earnings and tips

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Kreskin J. Torres eating BBQ and Hawaiian food.
Kreskin J. Torres has traveled to all 50 states thanks to Uber and Lyft driving.

Kreskin J. Torres

Seattle's Instacart shoppers are having to go miles out of their way because of the new gig worker pay law

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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.
Seattle-area gig workers have had to go miles out of their way as Instacart arranges orders outside of the city limits.

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I make more than $5,500 a month using an app to pick up restaurant shifts. Here's how I use it to make the most money.

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Kai Cowan has been using the FrontHouz app since 2023.

Kai Cowan

Instacart, DoorDash, and other apps appear to be trying to roll back Seattle's new laws for gig workers

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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.
Instacart is pushing its gig worker shoppers to tell the Seattle city council to alter a pay law that took effect earlier this year.

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Some Walmart Spark drivers are getting hundreds of dollars in tips they never received due to the retailer's buggy system

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Some Spark drivers are getting hundreds of dollars in "adjustment payments" for tips they never received.

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How to make more money outside of your job using these 8 side hustles

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Working at a baseball game could be a side hustle.

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