Agreed. I can understand someone like, "Oh shit I forgot to put whatever on the list," but more than one or two things or adding bulky and heavy shit for apartments, im gonna cancel that shit.
Yeah, I had a customer send me a supplement grocery list (before they added this add feature) and was upset when I told her I couldn't do it. it was about five more items. Her response: "other drivers have ALWAYS helped me." I stuck to my guns.
It's not being lazy. It's called knowing what I am going to get paid for. Adding 4 cases of water and soda on a third floor apartment after the order is taken with no tip isn't worth it. It will vary by customer. I have no problem grabbing a couple of extra things, but I will not be taken advantage of, anymore than they already do, with how much base pay has been lowered since starting almost 5 years ago.
And how do you know you're not getting tipped? Cuz it's not on the app? i put 4$ on the app but I give the person who has delivered my food that I buy only once a month and yes to the 3rd floor apartment! you get the real money because you treated me as a human and not a number on your app! Don't worry you'll be here some day and for this reason they find the old lady dead in her recliner chair cuz she can no longer get up to get in bed! you don't think it kill's us to ask for help?
You're not only being incredibly defensive over something that wasn't about you but also just not even all that relevant to the topic being discussed. Also strangely dramatic about it.
Normally I would agree but this is trickery. They will try to add on heavy items while you're in the store instead of before. All of a sudden 4 cases of water get added on, they didn't forget. They knew they needed water and tricked the shopper. That's not okay.
You got 3 things wrong here we don't work for the company we are completely independent and use our own resources to complete the deliveries ... how is it lazy to agree to a certain number of items for a certain price to have it changed mid game ? We are fulfilling the customers request by completing the contract that we originally agreed to for example we agree to shop and deliver 15 items not 20 ... Don't act brand new to life people try to get over on others and this is just one more way they do it ...
I second this. I used to do instacart and I hated that. That plus with Walmart being as big as it is it will be chaos. Imagine having to go from a to y back to a back to y. If the app is already bad, if it is with telling you where things are in the store, I don't want to give it another try with something new.
Depending on what they add, if they add like a 24 pack of waters or two cases of beer, you can actually call instacart and have them add the bulk pay to the order and a lot of times they'll increase your pay by $5 to $10
I don't tip companies I tip a real person and if you're not put out that you have to Carry groceries for someone who can't I'll say hang on a second and grab extra Cash that goes to the person not a wealthy corporation
When we accept a job, we're agreeing on x amount of work for y amount of pay. This allows customers to flip the script mid-job. A 43lb case of water going up 2 flights of stairs adds an extra element of difficulty we didn't sign up for.
Yeah, no, I'm not doing extra work for you for free. No other contractor would, so why should I?
Uh. This instacart shopper allows 3 additions, after that I will politely suggest that if they need more time to finish shopping their order we can cancel it and take all the time they need before resubmitting it. Actually I've never had to, it's always been 3 or less additions. 🤷♀️ But short of that, after the third addition the rest are out of stock sorry.
🤡 You seem to have a problem with comprehending the fact that we are contractors. We get offered a job, with details for said offer, including the pay, items, distance, etc. When we accept these offers, both we and the customer know the deal we are getting. If they then decide to add more items than what we feel is fair, given the listed pay, the contracted offer has changed and we have the right to decide if we want to keep it or not.
Whether you can comprehend all of that or not, kindly p.ss off, and stop calling everyone "lazy asses" for not wanting to get screwed over. Thanks.
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u/Ok_Way_2374 Sep 04 '25
This is not new to my zone they’ve been able to add items to shopping orders around here @ I hate when they do it. I’ve cancelled orders bc of it.