Automated purchasing bots, also known as “sneaker bots,” “click bots,” “Instacart bots,” and other names, are ruining the online shopping and gig economy experience for both consumers and workers.

Randy* still remembers buying his first pair of real sneakers, the Air Jordan 13 Flint. Ever since then, he's been a sneakerhead. Being a collector while growing up in south Florida wasn't easy. Randy ...

Bots have plagued the online sneaker-buying experience, but this is what retailers are doing to try to make things fair again.