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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A Trader Joes cashier and customer
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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Beyond Meat's newest ad targets meat industry attacks about plant-based food being ultra-processed and unhealthy

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Beyond Meat's new ad
A snapshot of Beyond Meat's latest ad.

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Instacart shoppers say the highest-earning orders are getting more extreme, with demands like 72-mile drives

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Instacart shoppers say high-earning batches from Instacart have become big tasks, asking them to shop and deliver hundreds of products to a customer over an hour away.

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Amazon Fresh grocery delivery gets less exclusive: Non-Prime members can now order from some stores

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Amazon Fresh grocery delivery
Amazon is looking to allow non-members across the US to order from Fresh by the end of 2023.

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Amazon Fresh stores are installing self-checkout after years of trying to get customers to use Just Walk Out tech

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Amazon Fresh store Just Walk Out technology
Some Amazon Fresh stores will soon feature self-checkout stands, a move the company made after years of trying to get customers to use its Just Walk Out technology.

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Instacart just slashed pay for delivery drivers — from a minimum of $7 per order to $4. Now they're more reliant on your tips.

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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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Your snacks are getting more expensive. Blame these big food companies, not inflation.

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A Kitkat chocolate bar is pictured in the supermarket of Nestle headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
Nestlé, maker of KitKat bars, is one of the food companies that continued raising prices and booked higher profit even as food inflation slowed down in early 2023.

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