Self checkout could be making Americans lonelier

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Self-checkout stations are one example of technology making Americans lonelier.

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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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Instacart is going public. For real, this time.

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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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Walmart vs Target: When it comes to groceries it's not really a competition

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Walmart sells more groceries than any other retailer in America.

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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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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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Trader Joe's executives say employees will never be replaced by self checkout and he insists those chatty cashiers are not trained to flirt

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She's not flirting with you.

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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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Leaked photos show a Dollar General store with rat-chewed products, a dead rodent, and fecal matter covering the stockroom floor.

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A bag of pet food sits in a metal carrier in a Hutto, Texas Dollar General store. A hole chewed by a rat through the bag is visible.
A chewed up bag of pet food at a Dollar General store in Texas. It's one of the latest examples of a dollar store to face a rodent infestation.

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An Instacart customer was charged $2,783.25 for a Kroger order of $282 she never received. 'My heart stopped.'

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A Kroger shopper in Ohio said that she was charged $2,783.25, about 10 times what she should've been, for an order of groceries for delivery.

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