THE RACE TO DELIVER: How grocery delivery app workers are treated as they bring food to New Yorkers

By Kirstyn Brendlen and Gabriele Holtermann

Posted on November 17, 2021

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This is the fifth and final installment in amNewYork Metro’s five-part series examining the proliferation of grocery delivery services across the city, and how they treat their fleet of delivery workers. Click to read parts one, two, three, and four.

Last year, as the pandemic swept New York City for the first time and forced businesses to close temporarily or altogether, there was one industry that seemed to be perfectly suited to survive: food delivery.