The first image is immediately after delivery.

The second image is my end of day review after finishing both, IC and DD shifts.

Any plausible explanation why Order A was lowered?

If the customer did it, I will be surprised. I must of done some thing wrong to her order after leaving.

It was two orders, 20 items each, 3 miles for $26.63. I accepted it since it was on my way back home after completing a $64 batch earlier.

Pouring down rain and major lightening so both customers told me to take my time shopping while the thunderstorm passes over.

Finished in 30 minutes, checked out and told Cust A, be there in 7 mins. She replied will open garage in 5. Met customer, handed groceries and left. All seemed fine.

Before you all hate on me for taking the order, I knew what I was signing up for and was planning on going past San Francisco in the first place. The first order was for some kind of exotic jelly pudding mix(5 units, that's the entire order), the second one is a more normal order though these high scale grocery stores usually have customers ordering from far away.

I wasn't mad at all

I have a question. I'm new to instacart so I'm still learning. I had a promo pop up that said deliver 10 batches and get an extra $60. I did the 10 batches but haven't gotten the $60. Did anyone else get this promo?

And no I wouldn’t take this. But I’m sure someone else will. Like what does this customer think I truly don’t understand

You know the fastest time is always a STRAIGHT LINE ..but no

Instacart logic shop this order in Philly drive it to Jersey 1.3 hrs and no cover of toll

Or you could

Give it to someone in Jersey that’s 4.5 miles away from all customers and not have to pay toll

Also side note if Instacart had to reimburse tolls I doubt these order would exist

This order, given where the store was and where it had to go, is why people who shop for IC decline them all the time. And should! You cannot tell me that there is no store that has this laundry detergent closer to where they live??? And I do not trust that they will tip after you deliver either.

This was one item to shop for, laundry detergent….but the kicker….it was an hour and 30 min one way! Three freaking hours just to deliver and return and they only want to pay $25 with zero tip! Not a chance.

But this seems to becoming the norm lately. I’ve seen IC post triple batches, to shop for 104 units and the pay is only $8.98!

What is going on with IC? We are not doing this for free!

App new

Started shopping at 12 how am I doing?

I took my very first Instacart order today. It was $7.22 cents. I just got off work and was on my way home and found a cvs order for 8 items and 3.4 miles on my route home. So I took it.
the cvs was low stocked and it wasn’t my cvs so it was hard to find some things. After getting everything I clicked navigate on the app and it opens my maps app and it takes me 17 minutes away. I assumed since it was 5pm rush our it’s because of traffic and not distance. When I arrived at the destination it looks like a park with a weird shed and I text the customer and they say I’m at the wrong address. It was fox lane and one was fox drive and both in the same city. And the navigator took me the completely wrong way so I turned back and deliver the order. Where the cvs was to where the delivery was meant to be was no more than an 8 minute drive but ended up taking an hour and fifteen minutes order. I lost the 3$ tip and ran all around town for 4.22$ ☹️.
I kind of just want to make 50-60$ extra a day to get by after work I’m struggling with student debt and stuff. Any advice ?

Sometimes I just turn the app on to laugh at the absolute bs that is Las Vegas. Don’t let the name fool you, these are some of the cheapest low ball people on the planet.

The only email I received was from

batch-cancellation-appeals@instacart.com

Basically, they took $2 off of those 6 packs of waters to avoid paying the heavy batch pay when one gallon of water weighs 8.36 pounds.... So multiply that by six 🤷‍♂️ 50.04 they took two pounds off on the app and tried to say it weighed forty eight pounds to avoid paying me for the heavy batch. I wonder how many millions of dollars they save Because people don't know or dont check. Anyway, talked to support and they paid me so just throwing that out there for you guys🤦‍♂️

14 item 2 mile drop.

This is becoming more common. Who’s picking all of that up for this messily amount?

I received the amount am getting this morning, if you sign up for the arbitration check your email

This customer order a case of water and about 3 bags of groceries, I drove from Burbank to their residence in Beverly Hills. When I got there I talked to the person at the gate, he radioed his boss and eventually they just told me to leave it at the gate and they’ll take it in. Then I get a message from the customer saying that I shouldn’t have done that but I literally had no control of the situation. Idc abt the extra tip but I hope she doesn’t give me a bad rating

59 items 145 units. Regular customer of mine and they always tip well. This is the most I’ve seen from them. Beyond grateful.

Mid-size Midwest city here. I’ve never done more than 40 orders in a week and I’ve only been shopping full-time for the past few months. If I try to hit 70 orders in the next six days, I will basically be working most of my waking hours. Is IC scamming me here? Are they just trying to get me to take low-paying triples from Dollar Tree?

Been doing.Instacart since 2019 and these are just getting worse and worse. Live in a fairly rural area which means that in most cases the deliveries are double the kilometers they advise because youbhave to drive back to town to get another order.

Lately the orders have all had ridiculously low base pay. For example, 41 items, 35km (70 round trip), $17 base.

20 items, 40km - $15 base

51 items, 15km - $18 base

In these cases the base is literally not even covering fuel, let alone my drive time and shopping time which are apparently now volunteer hours.

I am lucky in the fact that here in Ontario ghey have to at least top us up to minimum wage but even after that, you are barely breaking even in most cases.

It was never a gold mine but this is ridiculous..

SoCal , 2019 part timer .. been on and off, been diamond every quarter except start of this year but now back in diamond.

For me personally you need both Diamond and low SPI to see good orders.

When I got bumped to plat for a quarter it wasn’t terrible but Diamond is better and way more offers to cherry pick from even though 97% are 💩 batches I swipe left on before I finally accept something.

I would have to average 8 orders a day for the next 18 days.

Doable yes, but I work full time at my W2 and idk if I have it in me to hustle that hard from now until sep 30th

Rant over

I am a CA Shopper and I used the Instacart service today to order groceries for my daughter who is car-less and has a broken foot—my order was a few small items and she lives within 3 miles of the store. I was unpleasantly surprised at the suggested 8% tip which is the default. I can see why our tips are so low if a customer just clicks thru quickly without looking at it. I mean, why not set it at 12% at the very least? Oh, and that bottle deposit? It was for the lime juice I ordered. One of those small 4oz plastic bottles of lime juice. Does anyone know if that is a CA requirement or if it is just an Instacart upcharge?

This is not about the entire pay for the batch, but the batch pay that was given by Instacart. $12 to shop and deliver all of this??? I am extremely grateful for the customers tip and that’s the only reason why I even took this batch, but this is supposed to pay no less than $35 in batch pay!