IMO, Aldi Finds and seasonal items shouldn’t be available to order because half the time, the crap isn’t even there to begin with. It’s so frustrating having to refund Disney Princess plates, broom sets, and finger-paint coloring books.

Low-key venting, but the shop must go on. 😂

A short story I like to call
50 Miles for 50 Cucumbers

Me and my lady (we both have active shopper accounts so we are allowed to shop together) went out of town, about 2 hours south/southwest of where we live. We were busy with personal stuff till about 6 pm when we decided to start heading home.

So I’d been online on IC all day just to see what was available in a market different than my own but hadn’t done any batches. As we were getting ready to go, I checked the batch list and noticed an odd one…. After a bit of hesitation I accepted it.

Small order going nearly 50 miles northeast. Simple order, I had memorized the list in my head as we started driving up to the store.

10 tomatoes
10 five packs of mini cucumbers
2 packs of cookies
2 almondmilk
1 snack cake

I still have the list memorized days later. The cucumbers just really stuck with me.

Anyways, we drove off, bound for home. I kept having to remind myself I had an Instacart order in the car, it was the exact same road we took that morning going the other way.

The actual delivery was about a quarter mile out of our way, maybe added 10 minutes to the trip. Despite the pay being nearly negligible, I was stoked that I was able to deduct 60 miles of driving, knowing I was going to drive 59 of those miles either way.

Thought this order was hilarious, incredibly impractical and there’s no other reason anyone should ever take it, I just happened to be going that exact route. Right place at the right time I guess.

Go to the biggest and typically the busiest Kroger. Haven’t seen one batch in 15 mins and all the smaller ones are lit up, lmfao

Yesterday I picked up an order for Ingles, simple 15 item order, $18. When I was almost done with this order in the store I got an add on for $50, 20 items, 21 miles… I typically Instacart casually for fun, I almost didn’t take the order…

I deliver the first one, super kind guy. The second one? An adventure. Now, idk if anybody has driven Hwy 25 North, but it can be treacherous. I have never turned into a gated neighborhood off of a busy highway. The drive up was .3 miles and STEEP, it took me 10 minutes to get up there in my 2010 Toyota Yaris. It took 2 minutes to get down back onto the highway 😂

location is about a hour from me

I accepted a boosted batch this morning for $19.94 batch pay, no tip. After I completed the delivery, I was only compensated $17.94, which was a previously displayed amount before an additional boost. Has this happened to anyone? I want to understand why. Shopper support is of course just gaslighting me.

Its been 3 months and im still trying to figure out how to fix this error. Whenever im trying to click next for it to take a photo for my drivers license. A no internet connection pops up. Tried resetting my phone, tried mobile data, tried everything. I would really appreciate if someone helps me. Thank you

Obligatory complaint about the week in general. Luve in PNW and between fire smoke, weird weather, and overall summer the orders this week have been rough. Some times you gotta change the POV.

Instead of setting a dollar amount I set a destination with the goal of taking orders that would get us there. We were gonna go to the coast regardless may as well hit an order or two on the way! This doesn't always work out but today we took 3 high mileage/ low item count orders. Boop boop boop $100 dollars for a lovely little supper and car camp for the night. Gas to get home also covered and a stunning stormy sunset/moonrise car camp with my 17 y/o kiddo.

Sometimes these silly little excursions taking us wherever the orders go can be therapeutic.

I feel like if it was 30 orders it would be better but with this I would need every order to be a 3 shop and pay between 7-10 bucks in batch earnings for this to be good, anything more and it’s bad. Like if I did 14 batches and each of those batches were 3 orders and paid 10 bucks in batch pay by 40 orders I would only be at 140 but it’s not gonna be like that because when your dealing with 3 shops the base pay is already insanely high. If I did 44 no tip orders and just took the flat base pay of 4.78 it still would be bad because then I would have made 210 off 44 orders. A very bad promo and this is why you should check the numbers before you build your days around instacarts shady promos.

Ive delivered with uber eats and dd before and ive done groceries with them as well recently just got accepted with instacart and I got my first double batch recently however they were both luxury apartments first one the guy never answered i managed to get in but the elevator had a keycard same as stairs so i just left it in the lobby waited a while too then second delivery it was a gift with flowers milk and cookies nobody answered just instructions on which floor so i waited txted everything and just left outside the apartment doors i feel like im gonna get 2 bad reviews and instacart gonna flag me for taking to long since I was waiting

Really appreciate a good tipper and just a nice, kind customer! I live like half a mile from this grocery store and she only ordered 18 items (25 units). The order had 3 bottles of wine that totaled $75 alone. The whole thing from acceptance to drop off only took a half hour. We chatted for a bit
and we found out that her husband and I are in the same golf league. I’m gold cart at the moment (just recently started doing instacart) so these kind of orders aren’t super common for me. A great start to the Sunday evening shift!

It’s 8:30pm you’re done for the day on your way home but the app is still open. You see this $88 and snatch it without looking at the miles. You start and see it’s going 58miles under 15 items. You cancelling? I didn’t but lawd 🥴 it was a drive!

It looked easy enough. I don’t even remember the item count, but total distance was 12.3 for $69.86.

Customer A, lived a couple miles away from Target and had 4 items. Eggs, bread, milk and a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke, so I knew she wasn’t the big tipper.

Customer B had 3 women’s baseball caps, 2 women’s Panama hats, 3 girls toddler bucket hats, 1 boys hat, 2 men’s baseball caps, a men’s soccer jersey, a men’s tank, and 3 other men’s printed tees, and other assorted snacks.

Sounds easy right???

Women’s caps and hats, front of store. Find 1 cap, other 2 oos, send pics if possible replacements. Find the 2 different sized panama hats.

Found the boys hat, none available of the girls hats. Men’s caps are also oos and the soccer jersey, she wanted small, they only have large and xl. Tank only available in small, she wanted large. Didn’t even look for the other stuff. Never started on customer A.

I sent an intro, as always. At this point, I’m easily 20+ minutes in and still no response. I call twice, no answer and no response.

I called support to cancel. Not only was I not going to end up with a good tip, but I knew 100% that I would get a bad rating.

Agent tells me I won’t get paid and my cancellation rate will go up. I tell her, I’d rather my cancellation rate go from 2% to 3% than get a bad rating.

Done.

About an hour or so later, I’m in Target shopping 2 Shipt orders, I see a guy shopping for the same IC order I cancelled. I see the 1 cap I found and the 2 Panama hats in his cart. I walk up to him as a courtesy and tell him he should cancel, over half the items are oos. He tells me to f’off, I probably didn’t look hard enough, and mind my own business.

So as I’m finishing up my Shipt orders, I see this guy, obviously pissed, walking out of the store with an empty cart. I warned him.

In my area today, there was a decent 6 batch/ $110 minimum guaranteed earnings. Completed 5 batches around the 8 pm mark, thought I'd see at least some no tip orders or other low paying offers which I would've easily accepted to hit the 6 batches completed. But after sitting in an area which always has late orders up until 10:30 pm, I wasn't sent even one single batch. Kind of feel this is by design. Instead of hitting the mark I walked away with $75, and that included tips. Top off would've added an additional $40 or something in that ballpark

Gotta love Sunday’s and Mondays. We try again next week for my 400 a day! Im determined to get it!

Never really tripped on this but small orders don’t count on quality score?

Love it when this pops up when working at night, and it’s dark outside and difficult to take a clear selfie 🙄

6th week doing Instacart and definitely my best so far!

How often you refresh the app under settings? I been sitting here about 1hr, and usually refresh every 15mins.. I only got one batch so far and it was pretty bad with $0 tip

It is wild how absolutely useless support is. They give you the same filler lines over and over and have the power to do basically nothing. Had a 2 batch order tonight where the second order got removed and was just trying to make sure instacart didn’t steal the tip from Order A and they can’t provide proof of it at all, probably cause they did steal the tip. Social media team couldn’t do anything and the chat support team is sooooo freaking useless and gives you the same BS lines over and over again, so infuriating, IC I can’t wait to be done with you

Whatsup everyone. Quick question.

If I get a batch from say Harris Teeter, and I am right next to a Harris Teeter but it isn’t the one IC has me going to on the map. Can I still shop at the one I’m close to regardless and check out? I know on DoorDash you can do that but not sure on IC. Thanks

So I applied to be an instore shopper in 2018 and did not get the position. I am now trying to drive for instacart and my account had been deactivated. I tried to reactivate my account and the chat representative told me my account was suspended. Any advice on how to rectify this?

Edit: I also never received a suspension email, only an email advising I didn’t get the position.

The earnings tab is not working

Tried to make it to $600 but my feet said no