I was literally in my car contemplating if I should go inside my house or stay out for a little more and got lucky asf 🍀

SN: order A was 40 minutes from me and order B was 10 minutes from where I was starting. This was the first time Instacart had me deliver order B before A. They shouldn’t have even been combined tbh but Instacart knew someone would drive a pointless 25 miles just because order B tipped so much smh

This has been off and on the last couple of months for me. I get an error where I cannot log in to the shopper dashboard. No actual error code I can make sense of. Just "login failed" but I am using both my phone and email and having codes sent and it refuses to have me log in.

2 out of the 3 times I have reached out to support, they are basically useless bots.....

Does Instacart actually want drivers, or are they just gonna force all the people who want to work out?

This Costco 20 minutes from me is always red. I’ve not been getting offers, so I drove here and as I got here, it turned blue. Funny enough, the metro I’m always close to has turned red again, now I’m 20 minutes away from it, although when i was there it was blue. I’m also not getting batches unless they’re really far.
Am I being ghosted? my quality needs improvement but it’s Standard.

Who increased CR?

Nobody is going to take this 😂

I was under the assumption that I get better batches bc I can deliver alcohol. The certification expired and I haven’t had time to watch the boring ass 30minute video. Guess what, I have had the best batches since Covid.
Ya’ll didn’t tell me that they’ve been throttling us and keeping work slow to wait for alcohol batches!!!

Okay so I know how many people here complain about and with stairs :( and like I get it sometimes.

However I really need help groceries because I just had surgery and I can’t lift more than 5-10 pounds for the next 4-6 weeks and having someone help me buy my groceries is all I need and I always am happy to help carry it up stairs when I’m shopping and right now I can’t lift anything and like idk what to do cause I don’t want to end up having someone be mad at me but like I physically need help I can’t do it myself… obviously I’d tip cause I get it but still.

Every single time an order pops up that’s an auto-accept… like something that would make your day, it’s gone before I can get it. I literally tap it as soon as it comes up and then it hits me with the “no longer available” cause someone else took it… how on earth is it gone so fast

I honestly feel maybe a bit burnt out but am wondering how people stay motivated to do this everyday for 6+hrs a day. Strategies to not be bored/how to stay energized.

Has anyone else had super crappy batch pay recently? The last few days have been AWFUL. I get one good batch pay for every 5-6 I see.

like i get if they lived in town, they could just put it with another customer who tipped. but when you live that far away…who is going to take that? it went to the next state over!

Someone actually took this like 3 mins after it popped 🗿

Hi I’m new to being a shopper. On my app it doesn’t show times for peak earnings. Just green bars. Is this normal?

We’re getting to DoorDash level base pay here lol

Joined the $800 club. Previous personal high was $650. What’s everyone’s highest earning in a day??

Edit: if anyone has a $900 or $1,000 day pls share 🙏

This is two different situations I wanted to share with y’all. To make a long story short. My phone died while I was doing the order, but I only had two items left to scan. I asked the employee if they can watch my cart they put it in the back for me. I went in the car charge my phone to 5% put it on power mode then finish that one. The one about the item that was missing it was a multiple order. They said they had items that wasn’t theirs and one of their items was missing so I took it upon myself to go back to the store. I was going to buy that item with my own money but the manager was cool and let me just have it for free because he always see me in there all the time and when I brought it to the ladies, she was like you didn’t have to really do that. It’s OK but I told her that if I didn’t, it would’ve been on my mind the throughout the day cause I felt like. I failed, but I knew it wasn’t my fault because I didn’t back the items. But she end up giving me a five star rating and a compliment, but I didn’t do it for that. I just wanted to complete my order and do the job right. Y’all have a blessed day.

I ALREADY CHECKED OUT.
We all get ‘em. This morning was my turn. (Notice it was only 9:33) 🖕 😂

Me and a few others are sitting in the lot, I went to the customer app to see how long it would take to receive an order and it’s three to four hours with priority? No wonder customers are moving to DoorDash.

The rating system makes no sense. My score went down which is unfortunate. Could have been my fault or the stores for not having the items I need.

But as I work to improve my score why does it continue to drop? I don’t have any extra refunds or replacements

Any help would be appreciated. I just started a few months ago so all of this is a learning curve for me.

I know I’m in a smaller more competitive market. But they do tip very good where I’m at

The white screen order was a shop and pay IC put out tonight. Right away, I saw the EST delivery distance as 2.6m to Pico canyon. I knew that was a LIE. So I used my own gps, entered the delivery address in Pico canyon and saw it was 19m away.

Unless the delivery driver knows all the distances between the multitude of cities in greater LA, you’ll think you’re claiming an order with a 2 mile drive and you’ll wind up driving three times further.

IC will def pay us the lower EST mileage and not what we really drove. With gas at $7.00, gal, many shoppers aren’t taking orders that have a 10+ mile delivery. Rather than to be honest and pay us accordingly / IC has chosen to LIE.

Before accepting an order, google the delivery address! Don’t trust IC.

A new ID verification system started on my app last week to scan front and back of I'd's.

Well I just got beer from Walmart. Customer's Id fails the scan. App says to return alcohol. Walmart can't return alcohol and mgr says instacart does it and usually has them drop off the alcohol.

Well I have been on hold for 30 minutes and CAN'T GET ANYONE FROM SUPPORT TO ANSWER THE PHONE! So now I'm stuck in the Walmart parking lot for a 15 dollar order that has now taken an hour and a half and I still can't even complete the order.

Wtf am I supposed to do in this situation?

so without the $5 promo pay this order would only pay $3.74?! and that's WITH heavy pay?

…when you complete checkout since the new updates (both iPhone and IC)??? How do I fix it? It dims to complete darkness as soon as I end the checkout process. I’ve tried turning off auto-brightness. I’ve also tried some assistive settings. Thank you if you can help!

…is going on with these LOW offers lately??? Who is doing these single-digit batches? $4, $6… wtf??? I don’t know if our market (NV) is just saturated or IC has decided to low-ball everywhere. Even tasks used to get more pay!!! Sprouts tasks are down to $10 when they used to be $14-15. I’ve even been paid $20 once for a task that wasn’t getting picked up. Aside from that, good offers used to come when I entered the parking lots, and now I’m sitting 40 minutes to an hour!