I shopped at Aldi and saw why the chain is one of the fastest-growing retailers in the US

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Business Insider reporter Alex Bitter stands outside an Aldi store in Maryland wearing a dark blue polo shirt and sunglasses.
Aldi has several stores in the Washington, DC area, including this one in Hyattsville, Maryland.

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Whole Foods is launching mini-stores for quicker shopping trips

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Pedestrians walk by the sign and entrance to a Whole Foods Market store in New York in 2017.
Amazon is reportedly planning new Whole Foods mini-stores for New York City.

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Gig worker pay on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash fell up to 15% last year

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DoorDash delivery person with bike
Gig workers made less money on apps like Instacart and Uber Eats last year, a new study shows.

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

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Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart, poses for a photo on a gray background.
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo spoke during the company's second-ever earnings call on Tuesday.

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Aldi is the latest grocery store to use a rival version of Amazon's Just Walk Out tech

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Shoppers are seen outside of an Aldi grocery store in Coal Township, Pennsylvania on August 12, 2022.
Aldi has reportedly added a rival to Amazon's Just Walk Out to one of its stores near Chicago.

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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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Kroger brings back humans at Texas store after getting 'customer feedback' on self-checkout

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Kroger CFO Gary Millerchip described digital grocery as "becoming less of a headwind" — indicating that investments are still outweighing profits.

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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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Instacart wants to turn grocery shopping into 'Pokémon GO' to get you to buy more using smart carts

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The screen of an Instacart Caper cart shows cleaning products that a customer can purchase, as well as two items already in the customer's cart. A smartphone sits in a holder to the left of the screen.

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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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