I’m So Frickin’ Sick of These Cups

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Every few years there is some terrible new status symbol that becomes ubiquitous and, thus, inescapable.

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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A viral video appears to show Walmart Spark shoppers with perishable groceries waiting for a ride in the Arizona sun

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A recent Youtube video shows delivery workers waiting in the parking lot of an Arizona Walmart with perishable foods sitting in the sun.
A recent YouTube video appears to show delivery workers waiting in the parking lot of an Arizona Walmart with perishable foods sitting in the sun.

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Walmart is boosting store managers' average pay to $128,000 — and offering a bigger bonus

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Candais Pipkin, produce department manager, wheels a cart of pineapples across a Walmart store.
Walmart store managers will see a pay increase starting in February.

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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

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For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline.

Walmart settles a lawsuit that claims it passed a female worker for promotion because she had young children at home

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The exterior of a Walmart store in Jesup, Georgia, in June 2023, with cars parked outside

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The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending

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Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines, and consensus is growing among analysts and insiders that self-checkout has been…

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Target and Walmart stores in the Bay Area are locking up underwear and socks to prevent shoplifting

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Products are locked behind glass as a person shops at a Target store in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan on September 28, 2023 in New York City.
Products are locked behind glass as a person shops at a Target store in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan on September 28, 2023 in New York City.

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Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says

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One week ago today, Google disabled tracking cookies for 30 million Chrome users, amounting to just 1% of the 3 billion people who use the internet’s most popular browser.

Walmart Spark shoppers can remove their tips up to 24 hours after delivery. Drivers say that contributes to a problem of 'tip baiting.'

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While tip baiting happens on other apps, six contractors who make deliveries for Spark said the problem was particularly bad on Walmart's delivery service.

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