Walmart Spark delivery drivers are sick of customers asking them to bring deliveries into their homes

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Walmart Spark drivers often get asked to bring groceries inside customers' homes.

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Walmart managers are going to extreme lengths to get customers to complete the retailer's checkout survey. It's confusing shoppers and workers.

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The checkout survey at Walmart.

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Dollar General must pay $1 million after charging customers too much at checkout

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Dollar General has reached a settlement with the State of Ohio after the state's attorney general said that the chain overcharged customers at some stores.

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Rite Aid is planning to close about 150 locations. See if your local store is on the list.

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Pedestrians walk past a Rite Aid store in Brooklyn, New York. Many of the stores slated to close are in the Northeastern US.

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Costco-style free samples are popping up at Walmart and other stores as brands try to get you to buy their stuff

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A worker prepares bread to offer as samples to shoppers in a Costco warehouse.

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Walmart Spark delivery drivers say they are waiting over an hour to pick up orders — it's the latest sign of trouble for the retailer's delivery business

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Some Walmart Spark gig workers say they wait over an hour to pick up orders.

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You can now find a Dollar General in every one of the 48 contiguous states

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Dollar General opened its first store in Montana, putting the retailer in all 48 contiguous states.

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Delivery drivers who make their living on apps like Instacart, DoorDash, and Grubhub say they're being booted with little warning or recourse

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Costco stops giving Instacart shoppers gift cards as refunds, amid claims they were being misused

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Instacart shoppers at Costco will no longer get gift cards when they return undeliverable items for a refund, Instacart said.

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These retailers are bucking the trend and opening stores in San Francisco despite the city's 'doom loop'

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There has been an exodus of retailers in downtown San Francisco, with a Nordstrom branch being among the recent closures.

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