Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you all don't find a good Instacart shopped and pay them off the site. There is no reason to continue using - and paying part of the transaction to Instacart - when you can find a person and pay them directly.
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you don't just buy your own groceries. Not being trollish here I just really don't get it. I do Instacart or similar very occasionally like when I'm sick or if my DH is out of town and juggling kids and grocery shopping is annoying. But typically I don't really mind going and I like that I can make these judgment calls you are talking about myself including decisions like "huh the asparagus isn't looking that good I'll make snap peas instead" which are impossible with a shopper.
If I were very wealthy I'd just have a chef and housekeeper and they'd do all of this themselves. But I'm just regular umc and while I can afford these services I can also afford the time to go grocery shop. Since I also cook my own food and have reasonably high standards about food quality it's just more efficient for me to shop myself.
Anonymous wrote:At least I'm done with the Instacart in my neck of the woods (Rockville). I feel like Charlie Brown with the football -- why do I keep paying the premium (and tipping generously) when every single time they mess up my order? And don't bother to contact me while they're shopping, so that I only know that the order is incomplete when it's delivered? When I get the wrong items that aren't what I ordered? When I marked acceptable substitutes but those don't show up either?
Instacart, we are done. It's not me, it's you.
Anonymous wrote:my last straw was ordering two 2 pound bags of apples; somehow the shopper found these monstrous 1 pound apples and put four of them in the cart……so I could cut them up and everyone has brown apple slices at lunch or send my kid to school with an apple only slightly smaller than their head.
Just get what I ask for and I will pile tip money on you for making my life easy!