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Rappi charges delivery drivers a $2.40 weekly fee to use the app


In January, the Colombian delivery giant implemented a $2.40 weekly fee for delivery workers in Brazil to use the app.

On January 1, Breno de Souza, a Rappi delivery worker in São Paulo, was met with an unpleasant surprise when he logged on to the app to start his first shift of the year: an unexplained debt of 12 reais ($2.40) on his account. Earlier this month, a group of workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second-largest city, staged a demonstration against the weekly charge and organized a strike, forcing a Rappi dark store and a supermarket to temporarily shut doors. Rappi workers told Rest of World this might prompt some of them to jump ship and work exclusively for iFood, the Brazilian platform that controls 80% of the country’s food delivery sector.

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