How much to tip for grocery delivery?

[Anonymous]

You have now spent more time and energy AND MONEY, based on your hourly rate, on rationalizing lower tips than it would cost you to just give the higher tip.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazon suggests $10 tip per delivery for our large orders. Money only goes to the driver - not the shopper.

There is no way to tip the shopper in that case?

For Amazon Fresh they're not going into Wegmans or wherever and picking things off the shelves. They're not shoppers, they're warehouse workers.

What about Whole Food deliveries through Amazon? They recommend a $10 tip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At least 10%. Otherwise, go pick up your own groceries.

OP here. If everyone tipped 10%, these drivers would be making approximately $42 per hour by my calculations. You don’t think that seems a bit high?

Most people don't have $200-300 orders. My last order was $100 and I tipped $5.

This is the OP. I calculated that using the total amount of groceries they are delivering on a shift, which is $2500 (across 17 deliveries, so $147 is the typical delivery total). So I'm taking that into account in my calculations. $2500 x 10% = $250. Divide by 9 hours (length of shift) and that's $28. Add on the $14 base pay, that's $42 per hour.

Where do you get they do $17 deliveries a day?

OP here. I found this “day in the life of” article. Not a representative sample, but it’s the best I could find.

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/grocery--peeking-inside-the-pod-a-deep-look-inside-peapods-grocery-delivery-business/533816/

I work for Instacart and see these guys all day. They are at most doing 5- 6 deliveries a day. Maybe 8 on the weekends. Now that covid is dying down, the orders have dropped SIGNIFICANTLY. Folks are getting thier own groceries.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the weight of groceries, 100 dollars worth of soda then maybe 12 bux, 100 dollars worth of sushi 1 dollar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have now spent more time and energy AND MONEY, based on your hourly rate, on rationalizing lower tips than it would cost you to just give the higher tip.

Not true. This is a one-time analysis for repeated future use. If OP continues to purchase from Amazon/WF, then the higher tips add up significantly.

[Anonymous]

Well now we can finally confirm the rumor that rich people are cheap AF

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You have now spent more time and energy AND MONEY, based on your hourly rate, on rationalizing lower tips than it would cost you to just give the higher tip.

Not true. This is a one-time analysis for repeated future use. If OP continues to purchase from Amazon/WF, then the higher tips add up significantly.

Pfffft. If she’s going to be bankrupted by adequate Whole Foods tips she could shop elsewhere and bring the whole thing right back within budget. IDK how y’all keep a straight face with this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well now we can finally confirm the rumor that rich people are cheap AF

This. Doing instacart I have definitely figured this out. Instacart has a process of matching big tip orders with non-tip/low tip orders, so that the no tip orders get picked up. 9 times out of 10, the big house, expensive Bethesda, McLean, Potomac neighborhood drop off is the no tip/low tip order and the Rockville/Aspen Hill, Montgomery Villiage house, is the big tipper. I guess that’s how the rich stay richer as they say.

[Anonymous]

We do peapod. I don't do a percentage. I do a flat $10-15 per order. Usually $12

[Anonymous]

Generally around $25 on a $150-$175 order. WF through Prime Now.

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What about Fresh Direct?

[Anonymous]

Wow, OP I’m with you. I haven’t used peapod in years but when I did I didn’t tip, just like I don’t to tip the mail deliverer, or UPS. I get a farm delivery once a week, left on my porch - I don’t even see the driver, never occurred to me to try to leave a tip. $5 for peapod is generous.

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Anonymous wrote:At least 10%. Otherwise, go pick up your own groceries.

OP here. If everyone tipped 10%, these drivers would be making approximately $42 per hour by my calculations. You don’t think that seems a bit high?

Most people don't have $200-300 orders. My last order was $100 and I tipped $5.

This is the OP. I calculated that using the total amount of groceries they are delivering on a shift, which is $2500 (across 17 deliveries, so $147 is the typical delivery total). So I'm taking that into account in my calculations. $2500 x 10% = $250. Divide by 9 hours (length of shift) and that's $28. Add on the $14 base pay, that's $42 per hour.

Jesus, you're cheap and petty and asking people to validate both. You extrapolated out someone's pay for a job you've never done to make sure that it's within what you consider to be an acceptable range for that job? Petty. Tipping 3-5% is cheap. If you aren't willing to tip appropriately, go to the store and get your own food.

I don't miss the grocery store and understand that having someone pick my items, bag them, and drop them at my door cost money, hence markup, service fees, and tipping. Hilarious that DCUM, famous for it's HHI bragfests is cheaping out and policing the wages of people who didn't sit on their asses in their home office all pandemic. Classic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least 10%. Otherwise, go pick up your own groceries.

OP here. If everyone tipped 10%, these drivers would be making approximately $42 per hour by my calculations. You don’t think that seems a bit high?

Most people don't have $200-300 orders. My last order was $100 and I tipped $5.

This is the OP. I calculated that using the total amount of groceries they are delivering on a shift, which is $2500 (across 17 deliveries, so $147 is the typical delivery total). So I'm taking that into account in my calculations. $2500 x 10% = $250. Divide by 9 hours (length of shift) and that's $28. Add on the $14 base pay, that's $42 per hour.

Jesus, you're cheap and petty and asking people to validate both. You extrapolated out someone's pay for a job you've never done to make sure that it's within what you consider to be an acceptable range for that job? Petty. Tipping 3-5% is cheap. If you aren't willing to tip appropriately, go to the store and get your own food.

I don't miss the grocery store and understand that having someone pick my items, bag them, and drop them at my door cost money, hence markup, service fees, and tipping. Hilarious that DCUM, famous for it's HHI bragfests is cheaping out and policing the wages of people who didn't sit on their asses in their home office all pandemic. Classic.

DP. It’s the responsibility of the employer to pay them competitive wages, a tip is a token of appreciation. I mostly shop at WH through Prime. First, the entire tip goes to the driver, no way to tip the shopper. Secondly, Amazon pays their drivers $18-$25 an hour unlike the restaurant industry where waiters get $5 an hour and fully depend on tips. Third, Amazon takes tips into account when paying wages, the more tips coming through, the less Amazon has to kick in to reach the $18-$25 wages, so really my high tip is going to Amazon.

[Anonymous]

No more than $15 tip unless you have lots of heavy stuff. The percent tip is really inaccurate. You could have a million little inexpensive things that aren't worth as much as 5 very expensive items. So really, go off how much you order quantity wise and weight wise and go from there.