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Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints

posted by martyb on Sunday June 07 2020, @06:14AM   
from the getting-a-little-less-tippy dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Instacart makes changes to tip policy following shopper complaints – TechCrunch:

Instacart announced today that it is changing its tip policy to protect its growing shopper network from tip-baiting. Tip-baiting, a grotesque tactic, is when customers bait shoppers with a big tip and then reduce the tip to zero after they receive their groceries. It emerged as Instacart's demand skyrocketed due to the pandemic and people being unable to go to the grocery store.

Instacart continues to say that tip-baiting is rare and that less than 0.5% of orders have tips removed after delivery. It says tip totals have doubled for shoppers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. However, the policy change shows progress on how the company treats its shopper network, who have been essential as shelter-in-place orders keep people and the immunocompromised from going to grocery stores.

Instacart is now requiring customers who remove tips after delivery to leave feedback, and claims it will deactivate any customer who consistently removes tips. The company also said that it is reducing the tip-adjustment window (the time period for how long a customer can change the tip) from three days to 24 hours.

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Original Submission

• ID2020 & MAKE AMERICA LOBOTOMIZED AGAIN (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @07:20AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @07:20AM (#1004438)

  NO ID2020 NO MICROCHIP NO MARK

  WO2020060606

  Here is the patent for Microsoft 1. WO2020060606 - CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA
  look at the patent number, literally, "world order 2020 666." This from the same guy who is publicly
  saying he wants to put microchip tracking on every human on earth to prove you have been vaccinated,
  to allow you to buy or sell.. Bill Gates needs to Beg God for forgiveness. Science with out Gods
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  Elon Musk has made and is rolling out a 5g satellite grid around the whole earth and brain chips.
  this is not a joke, this is some fucked up shit..

  - Revelation 13:16:
  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their
  right hand, or in their foreheads.

  - Revelation 14:9:
  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his
  image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine
  of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
  shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence
  of the Lamb.

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