'You Couldn’t Swipe Fast Enough': How the Pandemic Devastated Instacart Workers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8bxm/you-couldnt-swipe-fast-enough-how-the-covid-pandemic-devastated-instacart-workers-v27n3
In 2019, Lisa, a single mother, lost her job as the media relations director at a firm in Nashville, Tennessee, moved south to her hometown Jacksonville, Florida, and signed up to deliver groceries for Instacart.
With the $1,000 she earned each week shuttling groceries from supermarkets to her clients, she could make payments on her $2,300 a month mortgage, and car and utility bills, with enough left over to order novels from Amazon and household gadgets from QVC.
'You Couldn’t Swipe Fast Enough': How the Pandemic Devastated Instacart Workers
Aug 24, 2020, 12:40pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8bxm/you-couldnt-swipe-fast-enough-how-the-covid-pandemic-devastated-instacart-workers-v27n3
> In 2019, Lisa, a single mother, lost her job as the media relations director at a firm in Nashville, Tennessee, moved south to her hometown Jacksonville, Florida, and signed up to deliver groceries for Instacart.
> With the $1,000 she earned each week shuttling groceries from supermarkets to her clients, she could make payments on her $2,300 a month mortgage, and car and utility bills, with enough left over to order novels from Amazon and household gadgets from QVC.