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by iamse7en 3781 days ago
Then she should quit. There are certainly other people out there willing to do this type of simple work for a low wage. Instacart is basically passing it to the consumers so that the economics of the business work.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is going to, I know she and the other people that do it hate it. Shouldn't they be guaranteed minimum wage? I mean, if they don't make minimum wage they can sue, or report them to the Department of Labor, right?
Not if they're classified as contractors.

(Whether the contractor classification is reasonable is a whole other ball of wax)