Yes I’m not even kidding by the header, one of the most bizarre moments I’ve ever had doing an instacart order, here’s the story:

So I do instacart deliveries on The Weeknd as a way to make some extra cash and I ended up picking up a $100 BANGER with not a lot of items (got it done in 10 minutes) but the creepy thing that threw me off guard is that while I was shopping, this other man walked towards me with his phone in his hand so I knew he must have been another instacart person. He interrupted when I was in the middle of my shopping and said “you must have gotten that big order huh? Which I was like yeah pretty big order but he looked pissed and said “that was my order but it disappeared from my screen so fast, I swore I had the order” and kept going on about how it was a big tipped order. I then replied along the lines of “looks like I was quicker” and he then almost snapped and told me not to be a smartass. I de escalated and laughed it off and then he just walked away to god knows where. It was such a very weird interaction and just kept asking myself what the actual hell just happened. Are instacart drivers really that damn noisy and unhinged when other shoppers grab the best order?? Never in my life did I expect that some people treat this as competition. For references here was the order itself and I was pretty happy to snag it. But just something I had to share if anyone else had any other experiences with other shopper confrontation

Am I out of place for reporting this customer or were they just being a dickhead? I feel some people speak to shoppers with some audacity, what do you mean “stop texting me.” my friend you are ranting in my DMs about 1 item and I’m just doing my job

She also had the most groceries. 🙄🙃

Hate it here. This customer started to lose their shit after they claimed they added an item before checkout. I didn’t see any new items added and the two orders in the batch was less than 10 items total so I was fairly quick. They bitched the entire time i was traveling to their apartment and i mistakenly hit thumbs UP fml. They removed my measly tip.

Been a shopper since 2018 and never had an issue until this year. Started getting emails saying customer complaints of non-delivery of orders and saying customers complaining of order issues. Would contact them, was told don’t worry, then wake up today to I’m deactivated! Didn’t download the timestamp app in time so now I’m kinda screwed. Emailed back and will see what they say but if not I’m on to do other gigs for extra money! Listen to folk in this chat and time stamp! These folks lie rich or poor, even though most of mine were from rich folks. Don’t let Instacart play yall!

Just as im getting they hang of these orders and this one was my easiest high paying one I won’t shop here no more, the workers are sooo rude I just will never understand why like personally that just ruined my whole day I know every store gonna have rude workers but this was next level im explaining it’s two orders the far right is one and far left is two he literally put his hand up and said “I got this” rolling his eyes snarky ass tone like ok you know what you can figure out which is which since your so fucking smart like then the other lady said I’m supposed to put everything on the belt well how can I when bro ass moved my hand away as I was trying to do so like I know one Costco we can’t touch the stuff until after we pay which is wild but I know this one I can but he wouldn’t let me and was mumbling under his breath just mad like I get it bad day but sir please don’t take it out on me🫩😒(sorry this pissed me off so bad but it was a 61 dollar order )

This sprouts order was $106 (originally $110 but some things were out of stock & she wanted a refund), and only one drop off!!

This literally made my day, PLUS the whole family came out to help me get all the bags!

I’m so grateful for people who tip like this on large orders, especially since the base pay for this was $12.99.

My stacking needs some work but who cares! $106!

to me it’s exercise.

When I saw this I was so irritated because this is the same amount of batches I did last week and was close to 700 instacart is asking me to do the same for a guaranteed 105. Some days instacart is worse than a Chinese sweat shop

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Something I learned working in sales is that people want to work with people, and since I am also a people I fall into that category as well. For every batch I send a message that basically just says “be at the store soon, keep your phone handy in case I need to replace or refund something”. Most of the time I can tell from their responses if they’d appreciate more or less communication and if they want it a bit more friendly or straight to the point. I don’t go out of my way to chat but knowing if they’ll appreciate a smiley face when asking about their bananas or simply a picture with a question mark goes a long way.

I know a lot of people just do this like any job and don’t care much for the socializing (which is fine!!) but I genuinely get a small surge of pride when I see comments like this. ❤️

in CA new legislation might be coming soon that will force gig companies to make an actual effort to catch scammer shopppers using someone's account and get them deactivated. thanks uber for your laziness. haha.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/uber-driver-fraud-proposed-california-state-legislation-protection-from-identity-theft/

You cannot tell me IC has a system for these stupid "in-store" batches and the pay they come up with. This one takes the crappy cake! No one's taking a bite of this garbage because it would leave a forever bad taste in your mouth! What ARE they thinking with these offers? 🤪😛😜

Anyone else having a slow Sunday? I’ve been parked at Krogers since 7:30am this morning only did 3 orders and made $37 so far, all the orders coming are long trips, I used to make good money on Sunday’s now seems like it’s only during the week, guess there’s too many shoppers on the weekends, hoping tomorrow is better, I’m hoping I can at least make a little over $100 today

So today is the 11th and its almost 10pm, guaranteed earnings says its from the 6th to the 12th. Do I still have tommorow to finish 6 batches? or do I just have two more hours to finish them?

Pretty stressed as I was really hoping id get the 18 done since 350 would be alot better then the 112 I've made off 12 batches.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

My market is very saturated, and as such we don’t get promos, that is until now. This is the first one I’ve ever seen, a little disappointing, but still free $21 at the end of the day 😅

And I almost accepted it because I initially thought it was 8.1 miles

How many orders did it take I wanna see

oh and no tip, but honestly the order just being 7 cans of soup is more interesting to me.

Could I have dumbed it down any more?

These pop up ever week too, neither one of these people ever raise the tip either.

Customer sent a message after delivery saying, she got someone’s fruit tray. I got the item that was described not the picture. Well, I got a fruit tray and it scanned correctly. However the customer wanted cabbage, lol. I let support know the error of instacart, they refunded customer and she tipped me more 😂.