Customers will now pay an additional $5.99 fee at checkout labeled a "Regulatory Response Fee." Previously, there was no legal minimum specifically for grocery delivery workers. INSTACART’S AI PRICING EXPERIMENT DRIVES UP COSTS FOR SOME SHOPPERS, STUDY SAYS"The regulatory response fee is the direct result of the City Council’s misguided and burdensome grocery delivery laws, which took effect this week," an Instacart spokesperson told FOX Business Wednesday. "For months, we raised clear, data-backed concerns that the policy would increase grocery delivery costs for New Yorkers, but those warnings were repeatedly ignored. "Instacart charging/offsetting on the consumer a regulatory fee because laws were passed that YOU have to increase YOUR contractors pay is so lowbrow," one user wrote on X Monday.