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The Risks and Rewards of Instacart Shopping During a Crisis

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The Risks and Rewards of Instacart Shopping During a Crisis
A customer reaches out as Instacart employee Monica Ortega delivers groceries in an apartment complex in North Hollywood, Calif., on March 19, 2020. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Chris Karr
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LOS ANGELES—On the morning of March 20, many Instacart workers woke up to a message from the company saying, “Thank you for being household heroes.”

For Instacart workers in California, the importance of delivering groceries to customers has taken on a new dimension in recent times.

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Chris Karr
Chris Karr
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Chris Karr is a California-based reporter for the The Epoch Times. He has been writing for 20 years. His articles, features, reviews, interviews, and essays have been published in a variety of online periodicals.
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