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Kennedy: Make thousands a week, travel coast-to-coast delivering groceries

Contributed photo. Chattanooga native Joshua Dzik, 45, is a shopper for the delivery service, Shipt. He has delivered groceries in 49 states, including Hawaii. He is shown here in Hawaii at Rainbow Falls in 2019.
Contributed photo. Chattanooga native Joshua Dzik, 45, is a shopper for the delivery service, Shipt. He has delivered groceries in 49 states, including Hawaii. He is shown here in Hawaii at Rainbow Falls in 2019. Contributed photo. Chattanooga native Joshua Dzik, 45, is a shopper for the delivery service, Shipt. He has delivered groceries in 49 states, including Hawaii. He is shown here in Hawaii at Rainbow Falls in 2019.


Joshua Dzik, 45, puts about 50,000 miles a year on his Volkswagen Jetta.

That’s what happens when you deliver groceries from coast to coast, while sometimes pulling in thousands of dollars a week.

Seven years ago, Dzik, a Chattanooga native and graduate of Ooltewah High School, began working for the Birmingham-based shopping company Shipt. After years dabbling at college and working in management jobs at restaurants and pharmacies, Dzik had decided to try something different.

“I’m not a corporate guy,” he said in an telephone interview from Phoenix last week. “That’s just not me.”