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Episode: Instacart settles with FTC over deceptive practices but still faces questions about pricing
Description: Delivery company Instacart will pay $60 million in customer refunds under a settlement reached with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over alleged deceptive practices.
The FTC said that Instacart has been falsely advertising free deliveries. The San Francisco-based company isnβt clearly disclosing service fees, which add as much as 15% to an order and must be paid for customers to receive their groceries, the FTC said.
Instacart has also failed to clearly disclose that customers who enroll in a free trial for its Instacart+ program will be charged membership fees at the end of the trial. The FTC said hundreds of th...