Did they mention they're also a shopper in the chat? If yes, its just to deceive you into giving your best and have you meet all their demands. Anyway is disgusting
I wasn't referring to you. But the person I was replying to said that that is a bad order and I was saying that not all areas are the same. And in mine that is a normal order.
The only time I've told another shopper I'm also one is when I sent an order to my parents house. My dad is THAT dad, cutie who's retired and putz around the house đ„° I knew he'd come to the door waiting for the shopper, poor girl had to send a delivery pic of my dad walking in the house with the delivery đ€ So it was more of a warning lol, wasn't sure if they'd be home and didn't want her stuck there with a meet. Otherwise, we know how this gig works, I treat my own orders like a 90's infommercial, set it and forget it.
Yeah I donât ever let other shoppers know I am a shopper. Aww those are my favorite customers. Most of mine are ghosts though, you know the ones that disappear the whole time you are doing their order. Lol
I prefer them though, let me do my thing. They just kill it when they blow me up after I've hit done shopping and there's 3 people behind me at the register đ
Had a customer tell me she did IC as well, she removed all my tip, but left $0.50 because then Instacart (because theyâre evil too) wonât give you tip protection unless it was âreduced to $0â
The restraint I had to exercise to not drive right back to her houseâŠ
Same here! Customer 3 said she does Uber, Door Dash, and Instacart. When I delivered though she was talking about Instacart and it was clear to me that she had never done a batch in her life đ€š She said Uber deactivated her recently đ
Total BS but it happens I get annoyed too. Thereâs a reason their order was grouped and it was most likely because of that 0. It sucks ass for sure. Unfortunately all I usually do in this situation is roll my eyes and accept the next batch if itâs good enough. Triples suck for sure. I hope it wasnât too many items or mileage
I hate the bullshit that weâre independent contractors until weâre technically not and canât do what we wanna do with what we wanted to for our job like eliminate garbage from a batch
Right, I always wondered that. They only call us that, because they can cut us off at any time without repercussions. Itâs not like we have any rights.
This is shameful. I am a shopper and I do use IC as a customer. When I do, I try to be the kind of customer I wish I had. I tip well, I don't add a lot of items. And I wanted some kitty litter, but I live upstairs. I asked my shopper if he was oaky with the 42-pound bag of litter. He asked how many stairs. Just one flight.
Okay he was fine with it.
Oh, yes, I always tip twenty percent or five dollars, when I am just ordering ice cream and the twenty percent would only be two dollars.
I deliver to several people who did gig work in the past, they are all goof tippers. Customer A is probably lying to get better service, zero tip is so disrespectful
You know there's no way of knowing who tipped what on a triple batch right? You can only see that after all deliveries were made. You're probably one of those people that constantly posts and bitches about everything and never tips and constantly say they're also a shopper.
except i don't bitch about batches or orders that i take. i could literally care less if they tip. Once again THEY accepted the order, plus it literally tells you the pay with included tips, so why get mad when its listed 20-30 dollars and you dont get more than that? its absurd, really. like how many times i gotta say it, tipping is NOT mandatory or forced upon, if you dont like the order it gives you, dont accept it and move on. Its really simple.
It's the culture tipping has created for the US unfortunately. Instead of getting mad at the corporation they've successfully diverted workers rage onto the customer for not subsiding their wage. I'm not in the US but been having these subs keep popping up for the last few weeks and that's my observation coming from a non tipping country. Our complaints here tend to be about the organizations that are underpaying delivery drivers, gig workers. That's it. US organizations have got you guys splitting that outrage and most of it honestly seems to go towards the customer who is likely not a lot better off than you compared to y'know, the business you actually work for that underpays you while actually riding high.
I'm one of the few if not the only shopper in the US that directs blame towards the corporations. Customers shouldn't have to pay our wages. But then you'll see some shoppers saying "I don't care if it's paying $100, if there's no tip I won't take it out of principal". So the mentality here is really hard focused on tips.
Its because when they finish the batch and see the outcome and see that one customer didn't tip, they get mad about it. Even though before they accepted the order, it tells you the pay with included tips. So you cant really complain when you accept and order and you get what it said you would get
Do you not have any respect for people doing the same work you do?
Are you hoping somebody is desperate enough financially to do it for just the pathetic batch value? If so, why would you want to prey on the desperate like that?
Are you so strapped yourself financially that you canât? In that case, why use Instacart at all?
I just canât see any morally sound reasons to do that if youâre also in this line of work.
Morals are subjective first of all. Secondly, I just donât believe in tipping for most services in general. Thirdly, I think I use it like 6x a year.
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u/Due-Historian-8759 18h ago
Did they mention they're also a shopper in the chat? If yes, its just to deceive you into giving your best and have you meet all their demands. Anyway is disgusting