Your guide to gig work, whether it's your side hustle or main source of income

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A bicycle courier from Uber Eats rides his bicycle during the heatwave in Utrecht
Delivering food or driving passengers for Uber isn't the only type of gig work anymore.

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Gig work has never been more widespread — and more challenging.

Instacart Charging Customers Different Prices for Same Products, Study Finds

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Instacart is betting on AI shopping carts that suggest what you should buy as you shop

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One of Instacart's Caper Carts, with a green label on the side, sits next to a display of produce and some cases of bottled water at a grocery store.
Instacart already offers its Caper smart shopping carts at multiple grocery store chains.

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Amazon's latest grocery expansion pushed supermarkets toward Instacart, its new CEO said

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A woman wearing a red winter coat loads bags of groceries into the back of a white SUV in a store parking lot as the sun sets in the background and a bare tree stands behind her.
Instacart CEO Chris Rogers said the company got calls from supermarket chains in the wake of Amazon's grocery delivery expansion.

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Costco is taking a page from Sam's Club's playbook to speed up checkout in the warehouse

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A tentative agreement between Costco and its union-member workers has been reached.
"We found that digital really enhances the speed of checkout," Costco CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday.

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Internal documents show why Amazon's AI-powered Alexa may miss the holiday season

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Costco has 3 ways to shop without a membership, but the math still favors paying the fee

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You can shop at Costco without a membership, but it doesn't really make sense to.

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Working for Doordash and Grubhub increasingly feels like a 9-5. And that may be bad news for the companies.

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A DoorDash driver in car
Gig delivery workers are independent contractors, but some say their work looks more like that of employees at times.

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Americans are still having a lot of stuff delivered from DoorDash and Uber, and it shows how much we'll pay for convenience

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Uber Eats driver on the job while moving through a busy city street.
An Uber Eats driver on the job.

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Instacart shoppers are using the app's 'reorder items' button to see how much grocery prices increased over the years

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Crisman White on TikTok showing an Instacart order.
Crisman White shared on TikTok just how much his Instacart grocery order increased over the years.

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