Instacart shoppers are SO BAD

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Anonymous wrote:They should not have to go up and it’s not unreasonable to meet them at the entrance. You are not tipping much.

$10 to haul all your heavy crap up apartment stairs? LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:Go to the store and get your own food.

And so the service will go out of business?

Because YOU stopped using them? Sure, Jan.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why you would use them if you aren’t disabled or immune compromised. I go on Sunday 15 min there, 20 min in store, 15 min home all less than an hour. Why is this so hard for people?

Because I want to and am a busy person with a busy schedule. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Then pay for the convenience!! $10 for an hour of their time. I don’t think so.

1) it's not an hour of their time
2) it's not the full pay
3) I am paying for the convenience in the form of the multiple fees I pay as part of the platform in addition to the tips

Why do so many clueless luddite types have to weigh in on things they know nothing about? But vociferously give their opinions anyway? My God.

Honey, many of us do use these services. Your tip is cheap and your attitude is wrong.

We are neither Boomers nor Luddites, but here’s a sticker because you tried.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why you would use them if you aren’t disabled or immune compromised. I go on Sunday 15 min there, 20 min in store, 15 min home all less than an hour. Why is this so hard for people?

Because I want to and am a busy person with a busy schedule. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Then accept the substandard service as agency cost and quit your complaining. And I guarantee you are NOT that busy. Just lazy.

No, i will not. I file a complaint and reduce the tip each time it happens and I will continue getting groceries delivered and you have zero say over it. I make lots more money than you and am way busier. Get over it.

I hope you’re a 12-year-old pretending to be an adult, because this is laughable.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why you would use them if you aren’t disabled or immune compromised. I go on Sunday 15 min there, 20 min in store, 15 min home all less than an hour. Why is this so hard for people?

Because I want to and am a busy person with a busy schedule. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

You clearly have free time if you are here.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why you would use them if you aren’t disabled or immune compromised. I go on Sunday 15 min there, 20 min in store, 15 min home all less than an hour. Why is this so hard for people?

Because I want to and am a busy person with a busy schedule. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Then accept the substandard service as agency cost and quit your complaining. And I guarantee you are NOT that busy. Just lazy.

No, i will not. I file a complaint and reduce the tip each time it happens and I will continue getting groceries delivered and you have zero say over it. I make lots more money than you and am way busier. Get over it.

LOL says the woman who lives in an apartment and can’t afford a proper tip!

*thunderous applause*

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Anonymous wrote:How much are you tipping?

I usually set the tip at about $10 for like $150 worth of stuff. Lately I've been cutting it down when the items come completely horrible, with half the items missing or me being forced to go out to the street to get them. I bump up the tip for great service but lately that rarely happens and it's mostly a win if I can just get functional service

Wow. I live in a house and wounding tip that much on $50. No wonder you are getting bottom of the barrel.

Well good for you but $10 is a perfectly reasonable tip on this volume of food and for the number of bags involved. It's a paid service with other charges thrown in, and the extreme tippers on either end of the spectrum should have no bearing on a standardly generous tip

NP here - You really think less think 7% is a "standardly generous tip?" Oy.

Yes, I do think $10 is a perfectly standard tip for a grocery run. And most of the actual users of the app (and shoppers) agree with me.

Nope, unless your order is $50 and not $150. You can keep repeating this all you like, but you’ll still be wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why you would use them if you aren’t disabled or immune compromised. I go on Sunday 15 min there, 20 min in store, 15 min home all less than an hour. Why is this so hard for people?

Because I want to and am a busy person with a busy schedule. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Then accept the substandard service as agency cost and quit your complaining. And I guarantee you are NOT that busy. Just lazy.

No, i will not. I file a complaint and reduce the tip each time it happens and I will continue getting groceries delivered and you have zero say over it. I make lots more money than you and am way busier. Get over it.

I hope you’re a 12-year-old pretending to be an adult, because this is laughable.

They’re definitely a troll. You can’t get a tip refund that easily, and if you do it multiple times, they’ll ban you.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why you would use them if you aren’t disabled or immune compromised. I go on Sunday 15 min there, 20 min in store, 15 min home all less than an hour. Why is this so hard for people?

Because I want to and am a busy person with a busy schedule. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Then accept the substandard service as agency cost and quit your complaining. And I guarantee you are NOT that busy. Just lazy.

No, i will not. I file a complaint and reduce the tip each time it happens and I will continue getting groceries delivered and you have zero say over it. I make lots more money than you and am way busier. Get over it.

No one cares lady. I don’t work for instacart or use instacart. But please keep replying because I find your posts totally entertaining!

+1. There is no possible way this loon is real but they are entertaining

+ 1,000

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Anonymous wrote:I have had the WORST experience with instacart shoppers. And so many delivery people as of late. I live in an apartment complex and so many of them call to ask me to go down to the front to help them because they dont feel like bringing the groceries up. Isn't that the whole point of paying more for this service? The last time the lady had me grab a cart from our cart room and then walk out to her car to get the items. I'm just blown away by the incompetence of all these people- they frequently get items wrong too. I know it's a convenience service, but we pay more for it and it's so, so, so bad. Is this a collective thing or just where I live (Florida)?

It's hard to get good help these days.

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We tip a lot and Instacart has been a savior for us. The shoppers have been excellent and fast. I think it all comes into how much you’re tipping. Our attitude is if we can afford Instacart we can afford to tip well. And that is what we do. Sometimes we get a team of two who go to Costco and work really quickly.

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We give very high tips and have had great experiences. These folks are working incredibly hard and especially during Covid are taking risks others don’t want to take.

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I think the PP mentioned, having worked there, that it does attract a lower income crowd of people with mental health issues and desperate situations. Very sad, but that could explain the bad service.

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Anonymous wrote:Recently a shopper dumped my 50 items on my doorstep. No bags, no boxes. I thought it was a joke. He also took a photo of the pile and sent it to me as proof of delivery. So yeah, I can understand some of the complaints. I haven't had too many other issues. It's kind of a crapshoot because you can't choose your shopper.

Yep. I've had a lot of bad shoppers too. I think many of the DCUM crowd getting outraged are older people who just don't know. But that never stops them, in true DCUM form, from weighing in. Nothing better to do, I guess.

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Seems OP was onto something about the bottom of the barrel instacart shoppers. The Brooklyn shooter said "All my Instacart driving paid off or what. We are definitely going to find the f*** out". So these are the people working for this company... wow...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10715053/Chilling-YouTube-warning-NYC-subway-shooting-person-Frank-James-attack.html