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Watch: What it’s like working as an Uber Eats food courier

A Star reporter went undercover as an Uber Eats delivery courier for six weeks and filmed the experiment. Here’s what happened.

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By Star Staff

pc28is in an era where the streets have never felt more crowded with food couriers. The pandemic-driven surge in app usage led the industry’s workforce to balloon, increasingly staffed by newcomers and precarious workers for whom few other job options exist.

But what does it take for these workers to get these orders from point A to B?

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