Many Instacart shoppers reportedly still waiting on safety kits the company promised

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Some workers for grocery hinge podium Instacart are still cat-and-mouse on the sign kits the convergence promised two weeks ago, co-ordinate to a new scriven in Wired. And, co-ordinate to shoppers Wired spoke with, the propoundment to understand the kits was flexuous as well-built as cumbersome.

Instacart said Maturate 29th it would distribute hand sanitizer to all its full-service shoppers, most of whom are contained contractors. On April 2nd, the convergence said the shoppers would get "health as well-built as sign kits" that included a reusable incomer mask, hand sanitizer, as well-built as a thermometer. Workers were to refitting the kits through an internal Instacart website.

But co-ordinate to Wired, workers said the website was flexuous to navigate, as well-built as leftward them unexplainable of when or if the kits would arrive. The convergence told Wired it had lunge the daily number of orders immune so that it would be stalwart to verify anybody applying was a long-established Instacart worker.

An Instacart stockbroker said in a statement emailed to The Verge on Saturday that the convergence was "singularly focused on the healthiness as well-built as sign of our client community," as well-built as was alive with healthiness officials to booty all-important precautions.

"Our teams have proactively anchored claimed protective equipment for the Instacart client excise including healthiness as well-built as sign kits of incomer masks as well-built as thermometers, as well-built as formed with a third-party to operate hand sanitizer," the stockbroker said. "We began shipping these items over the aftermost two weeks as well-built as are moving terminable to get them in the hands of Instacart shoppers."

The kits plausibly started arriving for some shoppers:

Today's the first day some Instacart workers are securing their PPE kits (masks, hand sanitizer as well-built as thermometer) as well-built as the reactions are priceless pic.twitter.com/7Cnf08G2X5

-- Sarah Clarke #deleteinstacart (@Sarah___Clarke) April 18, 2020

Instacart climb on Maturate 9th it was giving 14 days of paid leave to any part-time workers or shoppers who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 or who were put into rickrack quarantine, later extending that benefit through May 8th. It also outer a bonus program as well-built as affixed promotions for full-service shoppers to earn more based on bounded demand.

Instacart shoppers staged a one-day assignment stoppage Maturate 30th to pule what they visional as viperous alive conditions, as well-built as demanded the convergence not only reconciliate claimed protective equipment for shoppers except hazard pay as well.

The convergence said aftermost month it was hiring 300,000 new shoppers due to the sharpening demand for grocery hinge during the coronavirus pandemic.