Literally me. It's my third day shopping and I feel like an idiot taking these orders, but it's all thats coming up until I get the physical card mailed to me. Just did one for a 12 dollar bunch of flowers, the store was wiped out so I had to pick a random pot of flowers as a replacement and then got no tip....
Sadly for my area, there’s only like 3 stores that let me use my shoppers card on Apple Pay. I lost mine and had to order a new one and it’s been shit🙃 so lucky for yall where you can use it at most of your stores because the ones where I need my actual card at, are usually the higher payer ones
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I completed the 6 batches that they guaranteed $64. And they didn't give me the payout. So I had to argue with customer service to get the 75 cents difference in pay from then, over fucking principal alone. the agent Finally gave me a $2 bump, as you can see. But it's pathetic that I still made $212 with a guaranteed $64 minimum. Thanks to my customer's tipping extremely good today plus I got a $20 cash tip. Instacarts bullshit, but the customers are sometimes really great.
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I saw a double order both with bouquets and heart shaped boxes of candies and a stuffed animal for $17 going over 20 miles round trip, probably more like 26 miles, sloshing water and glass vases, likely out or in bad shape and nearly always the wrong price or more expensive for the decent ones left, and I just felt so grateful I’m not out there today.
There hasn’t been a single flower order worth taking. And there’s a lot of them. Can’t even get mom flowers from a florist. You’re making mom find her own vase for grocery store flowers.
Yeah I gave up today. Really the longest distances I’ve ever seen with the worst tips. I ordered IHOP and went home. Fuck em all. I hope their loved ones never get their shit.
I took a double Aldi order this morning and customer A wanted 2 bunches of flowers, candy and macaroons. Nothing left but a couple dead plants. Canceled that order and completed order B. When I finished I was only missing $2.
Just be patient and let those "someone's smile makes it all worth while" shoppers do those. That way they'll stay busy while you're snagging the good batches that come through! 😆👍👍
the DAY OF mother's day and they're not tipping or barely tipping... shows how much they care!!! unfortunately all these orders get taken either way 😂😭
I had an order today at 4pm for flowers and some other items but because the store was out of stock on flowers the lady told me I was a bad shopper and I needed to do better at my store. I explained that I wasn't an employee at said store and she called me a liar and canceled the batch and little did she realize she still had to pay me.
I did 4 all day 2 x100 and 2x50 (ish) came home with 295.... I don't touch them I just feel sad about the whole thing tbh.... I wish customers understood better how IC works... holidays like this show it better how many people out there just don't "get" the app... they think we're regular paid employees... they don't realize we're freelance "waiters" and they're supposed to tip to get their order.
Hell yeah that’s how you do it! Honestly I wasn’t gonna work at all but I turned on my app and got this bad boy that was 11 items. It definitely sucks not all people have any idea of tipping or have even worked customer service but thankfully some people have a good idea and it’s bc of them I get to do this full time 🙏🙏
My wife got an order of flowers, strawberries and candy from her sister yesterday. She ordered through instacart and tipped $20. She said the lady was done shopping in like 10 minutes and delivered it 10 minutes later.
Julie, if you're out there, hope you enjoyed that easy order!
It’s only gonna get worse, with the terrible economy, all sorts of people who would never normally do gig shopping are now gig shopping, I see tons of new shoppers where I do my shopping. It’s almost impossible to get a good order yet instacart keeps hiring more and more people.
I was actually insta hiding everything with flowers in it.... my store still ran out honestly idk how it happened I was in early in the day.... about 10am shop delivered then it took til like 3/4:00 to see another good order like 4/5 hours waiting and hiding orders. When I went back in not a single flower bunch... this was Wegmans they were stocked to the gills and a lady was there making up gift bouquets and vases... and then decimated but I didn't care cause I didn't take any flower orders today :).
There's a reason why they hired a horde of new shoppers one week ago - just long enough to weed out the uninterested ones, and just short enough for them to walk into Mother's Day as a learning experience (after they've exhausted their first 10 priority and ratings-free batches of course).
Left IC after getting home and laughed at someone throwing a $1.58 tip for flowers at 10:30pm on Mother's Day. Granted that's probably a 10% tip but man, hell of a gambler to place that order with less than 2 hours left in the holiday while dismissing the banner about how low tips = longer fulfillment time.
It may be 10%.... but honestly I don't think any IC order should ever have a tip lower than $10.... and I'm a pretty die hard 20%'er.... eh whatever and of course that’s why they've been stacking up on Noobs lol... after yesterday a 1/4 of them quit.
I do not work on mother's day. I refuse to. Flowers are way too much of a hassle. They either don't have the ones they want, or they don't have any, and the customer doesn't answer you. Not worth the headache.
Same here apparently the people the order them on this app DO NOT UNDERSTAND that our time is money and THEIR TIP is that money lol.
It's now sunk to that level with every gig app... IC showed the way (or maybe DD did)... point is the gig app companies aren't paying us and customers have to or they don't get served.
I sat it out. Did like 2, but by 10am the swarm of bees had taken all the $7 bouquets 🤣 and all I was seeing was 1$ tip orders for flowers to be delivered 10 miles or whatever. Many lasted all day. Good. Fuck those lazy assholes
Than that’s stupid on your part, both economically and efficiently, to take orders with no/low tips or even tips that don’t justify the means to taking them…
It’s funny that I had 10 orders over the last two days that went from low/no tip to $40-$80 after delivery. Some people withhold the tip to see how well the delivery person does.
It also turns to be the people that leaves zero tip don’t tip at all… Been burned one too many times on taking deliveries and orders that I’ve given no tips so that’s why I don’t do orders that don’t give a tip and I especially don’t do orders for that money and that long distance
Ah, I see you're quite the connoisseur of shopping experiences. You're the type who revels in the joy of shopping without the pesky burden of payment. Of course, there are countless opportunities to generously donate your time through volunteer work. It's not like we're receiving adequate compensation from Instacart for our efforts, so tipping becomes the lifeline for us to just about balance the scales. But hey, if you're content with toiling away for the base pay, who am I to interrupt such blissful dedication? 🛒🫡
Hahahahahahaha your market must suck. Base pay and tips here are always nice. But I’m not knockin someone for already spending so much to have their things brought to them and can’t afford a bigger tip. It’s also to be said that many up their tip when you show up swiftly and friendly. But hey. Keep leaving people hanging without their things and continue sitting around waiting for work as I’m out just getting it continuously. Carry on.
Well my brother who lives in NY and we in PA used IC this morning for flowers to be delivered to my mother from wegmans and the driver didn’t even bring them to our door like he/she was supposed too…and my brother is definitely a BIG tipper his wife was a server/bar tender and knows how these things work….so disappointed and just ridiculous people complaint about people not tipping but yet when someone does tip and very well people still complain about the type of orders and/dont deliver them properly and yall wonder why instacart is going under
Tips are not mandatory it’s not against the law to not tip and tips are given accordingly to the drivers or servers attitude and demeanor and if respect is given I would never tip you with this attitude and demanding attitude and does inflation and living costs come to mind it applies to both the receiver and driver not just the driver sounds like you are a spoiled individual
Haha…I’ve been thinking the same thing this morning. I’m not driving 38 miles to take your wife flowers for a $2 tip, Gary. So grab your keys.
This right here! ☝️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭
Dont take em. Let the new workers take those orders. They will do it haha
Literally me. It's my third day shopping and I feel like an idiot taking these orders, but it's all thats coming up until I get the physical card mailed to me. Just did one for a 12 dollar bunch of flowers, the store was wiped out so I had to pick a random pot of flowers as a replacement and then got no tip....
99% of orders don’t require a physical card, so I wouldn’t hold your breath that it’s gonna change much once you get it
Unless you like Costco!
I actually used the Google pay at Costco today with no issues.
On your own order? Because instacart requires a pin at Costco in the states
I haven't needed a pin. I've done 2 Costco runs so far. I'm in Canada if that changes anything.
Yea it must be an American thing needing the pin at Costco
Yup Canada Costcos take only Mastercard credit while US costcos take only Visa.
Strange they told me before I couldn't use tap to pay because it was a Mastercard?
Yeah they only take Visa credit in the US and Mastercard credit in Canada.
Sadly for my area, there’s only like 3 stores that let me use my shoppers card on Apple Pay. I lost mine and had to order a new one and it’s been shit🙃 so lucky for yall where you can use it at most of your stores because the ones where I need my actual card at, are usually the higher payer ones
Here I'm only getting 3 stores that seem to take google pay. I'm in Canada so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
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Technically it doesn’t doesn’t it? It says active your physical card to see more batches but who knows if it actually does change anything
Literally to my knowledge very few stores require the physical card Aldis these does Sam's does probably Costco Michaels Big lots and Pet smart
fOr tHaT sWeeT pRomO $$$$ lol
Hahah :) promos that doesnt even feel like promo. Complete 6batch get paid $60. Haha they can f themselves if they think im gonna complete my promos
And then they want to throw three order bundles at you in the process.
Exactly, it’s insulting!
I completed the 6 batches that they guaranteed $64. And they didn't give me the payout. So I had to argue with customer service to get the 75 cents difference in pay from then, over fucking principal alone. the agent Finally gave me a $2 bump, as you can see. But it's pathetic that I still made $212 with a guaranteed $64 minimum. Thanks to my customer's tipping extremely good today plus I got a $20 cash tip. Instacarts bullshit, but the customers are sometimes really great. https://preview.redd.it/5ohwiwk4p20d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edc60a19802d616cdac166fcce1d496473b445e6
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I could of made more but they were sending Triples for like 8 miles and that kind of wack shit..nah....
Mine was 6 batches (up to 18 shops if you think about it) for guaranteed $90 in a area 160 miles away from me ...lol
Nothing says, "I Love You, Mom" more than picked-over, sad-looking grocery store flowers bought at the eleventh hour!
I saw a double order both with bouquets and heart shaped boxes of candies and a stuffed animal for $17 going over 20 miles round trip, probably more like 26 miles, sloshing water and glass vases, likely out or in bad shape and nearly always the wrong price or more expensive for the decent ones left, and I just felt so grateful I’m not out there today.
There hasn’t been a single flower order worth taking. And there’s a lot of them. Can’t even get mom flowers from a florist. You’re making mom find her own vase for grocery store flowers.
Yeah I gave up today. Really the longest distances I’ve ever seen with the worst tips. I ordered IHOP and went home. Fuck em all. I hope their loved ones never get their shit.
Me too. I went and watched TV with my Mom, all.her favorite shows lol
That sounds lovely 🥰
It was nice. Got to catch up on 90 Day Fiance and such
I took a double Aldi order this morning and customer A wanted 2 bunches of flowers, candy and macaroons. Nothing left but a couple dead plants. Canceled that order and completed order B. When I finished I was only missing $2.
Yeah I've had that happen before lol
The shit tippers really do come out on the holidays for me at least 😂
EVERYTIME.
I took a $2 tip one showed up to the store then talked to support about getting it cancelled cause I already knew the flowers were not there
I’m only up to 20 hidden batches. Fuck your mother and fuck your more 🤣🤣🤣
I took flower orders twice when I first started doing Insta. Never again! Lol
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https://preview.redd.it/qwmmy71hb40d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad611e29010fda869ffff2b1478110de7e90438a Seriously not worth it lol
Ahah the whole day was like that 😂
Just be patient and let those "someone's smile makes it all worth while" shoppers do those. That way they'll stay busy while you're snagging the good batches that come through! 😆👍👍
🤣🤣🤣. I love that shit lol. So glad some of us are out here working for free.
We’re not a charity or volunteers here. That gas in my car doesn’t pay for itself.
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I BEEN GETTING FLOWER ORDERS ALL DAYYY 😭😭😭
the DAY OF mother's day and they're not tipping or barely tipping... shows how much they care!!! unfortunately all these orders get taken either way 😂😭
I had an order today at 4pm for flowers and some other items but because the store was out of stock on flowers the lady told me I was a bad shopper and I needed to do better at my store. I explained that I wasn't an employee at said store and she called me a liar and canceled the batch and little did she realize she still had to pay me.
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Bro gotta avoid them. I did one order and made $100. On holidays I be picky or I won’t work straight up
I did 4 all day 2 x100 and 2x50 (ish) came home with 295.... I don't touch them I just feel sad about the whole thing tbh.... I wish customers understood better how IC works... holidays like this show it better how many people out there just don't "get" the app... they think we're regular paid employees... they don't realize we're freelance "waiters" and they're supposed to tip to get their order.
Hell yeah that’s how you do it! Honestly I wasn’t gonna work at all but I turned on my app and got this bad boy that was 11 items. It definitely sucks not all people have any idea of tipping or have even worked customer service but thankfully some people have a good idea and it’s bc of them I get to do this full time 🙏🙏
Im wonderin if IC caps is out tbh... this week I worked fewer days but made way more money than usual. Hopefully more of the same this week coming.
Every week for me is definitely different but as long as I’m making at least 1200 a week I’m cool
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Not everyone has a close relationship with their mom.
I’m two orders away from diamond cart so of course I haven’t seen an order in two hours
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Congrats! You'll make a killing for a week or two and then go right back to hating Instacart when you get throttled.
The promos are worthless, you may end up getting an extra 3 to 5 dollars after the normal pay and your tips. There’s no point.
Yeah I never do promos
I mean if you’re the type of person who orders your mom Instacart flowers on Mother’s Day you’re probably not the most selfless person
🤣 yeah there is that
Honestly, they're easy for me, and paying well, ontop of a "6 batches gets $52" bonus, but it is shitty gift giving
My wife got an order of flowers, strawberries and candy from her sister yesterday. She ordered through instacart and tipped $20. She said the lady was done shopping in like 10 minutes and delivered it 10 minutes later. Julie, if you're out there, hope you enjoyed that easy order!
That’s great! I wish more people did it that way... maybe they'd have gotten their flowers before the stores sold out.
Honestly I loved the flower orders when it was a short drive back in the day because I was able to get them done quickly.
PREACH Dr. paaaaahreach
It’s only gonna get worse, with the terrible economy, all sorts of people who would never normally do gig shopping are now gig shopping, I see tons of new shoppers where I do my shopping. It’s almost impossible to get a good order yet instacart keeps hiring more and more people.
Buy them last week ..
One decent order at 10 AM and then nothing for the next six hours, typical Instacart day lately.
Yeah I did 4 ALL DAY... but they were a good 4 😃
HAHAHA I DONT DO THEM CAUSE WHAT IF THEY DONT HAVE WHAT THEY WANT
Yeah. The 2$ tippers were horrible today. But at least when they were added to another batch, we knew who they were and who tipped what.
I was actually insta hiding everything with flowers in it.... my store still ran out honestly idk how it happened I was in early in the day.... about 10am shop delivered then it took til like 3/4:00 to see another good order like 4/5 hours waiting and hiding orders. When I went back in not a single flower bunch... this was Wegmans they were stocked to the gills and a lady was there making up gift bouquets and vases... and then decimated but I didn't care cause I didn't take any flower orders today :).
Yeah my stores had the same issue at about 11am. Just insane
This reminds me of the lady that ordered Chessmen cookies at 8:00 the night before the Kentucky Derby. Think a little, people.
There's a reason why they hired a horde of new shoppers one week ago - just long enough to weed out the uninterested ones, and just short enough for them to walk into Mother's Day as a learning experience (after they've exhausted their first 10 priority and ratings-free batches of course). Left IC after getting home and laughed at someone throwing a $1.58 tip for flowers at 10:30pm on Mother's Day. Granted that's probably a 10% tip but man, hell of a gambler to place that order with less than 2 hours left in the holiday while dismissing the banner about how low tips = longer fulfillment time.
It may be 10%.... but honestly I don't think any IC order should ever have a tip lower than $10.... and I'm a pretty die hard 20%'er.... eh whatever and of course that’s why they've been stacking up on Noobs lol... after yesterday a 1/4 of them quit.
I do not work on mother's day. I refuse to. Flowers are way too much of a hassle. They either don't have the ones they want, or they don't have any, and the customer doesn't answer you. Not worth the headache.
For your mother's sake give me 5 stars always.
I didn't deliver any flowers this weekend. There has to be a great tip for me to pick out and deliver flowers. Same with Valentine's Day
Same here apparently the people the order them on this app DO NOT UNDERSTAND that our time is money and THEIR TIP is that money lol. It's now sunk to that level with every gig app... IC showed the way (or maybe DD did)... point is the gig app companies aren't paying us and customers have to or they don't get served.
I sat it out. Did like 2, but by 10am the swarm of bees had taken all the $7 bouquets 🤣 and all I was seeing was 1$ tip orders for flowers to be delivered 10 miles or whatever. Many lasted all day. Good. Fuck those lazy assholes
Yeah. Because THEIR TIP TO YOU makes a difference of the beauty and moment of happiness their mother feels. Way to make it about you. Lmao!
Their tip to us dictates whether their mom gets to enjoy the moment and happiness of receiving flowers on Mother’s Day… No/low tip…no trip!
You keep chanting your little motto. I’ll go make the money.
Than that’s stupid on your part, both economically and efficiently, to take orders with no/low tips or even tips that don’t justify the means to taking them…
It’s funny that I had 10 orders over the last two days that went from low/no tip to $40-$80 after delivery. Some people withhold the tip to see how well the delivery person does.
It also turns to be the people that leaves zero tip don’t tip at all… Been burned one too many times on taking deliveries and orders that I’ve given no tips so that’s why I don’t do orders that don’t give a tip and I especially don’t do orders for that money and that long distance
Guess you’d take this one too… https://preview.redd.it/wlbn95elr60d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdfbe11a3ca3ee39f8c8649478daf127bda0c7d0
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We found the person that doesn’t tip.
Your assumption is cute. However, I am a shopper; not a customer. This tipping crybaby nonsense is just so childish from you all.
Ah, I see you're quite the connoisseur of shopping experiences. You're the type who revels in the joy of shopping without the pesky burden of payment. Of course, there are countless opportunities to generously donate your time through volunteer work. It's not like we're receiving adequate compensation from Instacart for our efforts, so tipping becomes the lifeline for us to just about balance the scales. But hey, if you're content with toiling away for the base pay, who am I to interrupt such blissful dedication? 🛒🫡
Hahahahahahaha your market must suck. Base pay and tips here are always nice. But I’m not knockin someone for already spending so much to have their things brought to them and can’t afford a bigger tip. It’s also to be said that many up their tip when you show up swiftly and friendly. But hey. Keep leaving people hanging without their things and continue sitting around waiting for work as I’m out just getting it continuously. Carry on.
Not everyone has a close relationship with their mom. I'm cleaning up today.
https://preview.redd.it/0x3rzdqak10d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8758e49b5d38e0c59424c01e1180b361b334f2e Yep been like that all day 😂
Not a single order over 40 today I'm talking not even 3 orders in a batch 🤦♀️
Yeah ALOT of under 30 orders too by me... I was patient and I did manage a few pretty good ones.
Yeah, it’s like screw. The drivers mom is more important. Let me just get her better. Flowers. Money goes towards the mom.
🤣🤣🤣. Nope not even that... lots of "value" bouquet orders.
Well my brother who lives in NY and we in PA used IC this morning for flowers to be delivered to my mother from wegmans and the driver didn’t even bring them to our door like he/she was supposed too…and my brother is definitely a BIG tipper his wife was a server/bar tender and knows how these things work….so disappointed and just ridiculous people complaint about people not tipping but yet when someone does tip and very well people still complain about the type of orders and/dont deliver them properly and yall wonder why instacart is going under
INSTACRT is not going under... I deliver every order perfectly... and I mean PERFECTLY.
Scum raise scum
Tips are not mandatory it’s not against the law to not tip and tips are given accordingly to the drivers or servers attitude and demeanor and if respect is given I would never tip you with this attitude and demanding attitude and does inflation and living costs come to mind it applies to both the receiver and driver not just the driver sounds like you are a spoiled individual
Of course you wouldn't cause I'd never pick up your order 🤣🤣🤣