Not a good pay. - Instacart Personal Shopper Instacart Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You pick your own batches (deliveries). Work your own schedule. Can get instant payment for small fee.

Cons

Not worth the time for little pay. If it was delivery only it may be worth it. But if stores you are shopping in stores that are not organized your there for a long time picking order. I spent two hours in walmart picking a 78 item order for a customer who did not reply quickly to replace missing items only to get $13.00. Also need to be in a big city and do multiple orders in one store to make it worth the pay I might see 5 to 10 batches a week in my area. Pay is way to low for time spent shopping.

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Pros

Fun going out and talking to people. You will interact with people everyday. You control how much you get paid. Lots of flexibility in the time between accepting an order and traveling to the store and beginning to shop. It isn't pedal to the metal to get to the store like DoorDash is. You can also cancel batches after accepting as long as you keep your rate under 15%. This is different from DoorDash where your rankings will suffer if g.t. 2% cancellation rate.

Cons

There's a learning curve and it takes a while to learn each chain of stores' items. Once you become proficient at one store, the algorithm will lowball your offers relative to other less-experienced Instacart shoppers. Overall, Instacart shoppers likely get paid similar or less than the store's regular employees.

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