Pros
I worked as a shopper for 3 months in 2019 to pay off a credit card as a supplement to my normal FT job in IT. Weekly pay. Set own hours. Newbies get priority. Most of the time it was fine, just shopping and delivering groceries. But all in all I could work when I wanted and made in 3 months FT shopping, = what I made in just 2 weeks working in IT.
Cons
They send you shops that if you turn down 3 in a row you get booted out of your shift and if you do that a few shifts in a row you get suspended. This forces shoppers to take low paying crappy shops no matter what...perpetuating long drive/low pay/tip dependency and enabling Karens everywhere. Later in 2019 instacart settled a lawsuit and I got a settlement check for about 1/3 of what I origially made. BECAUSE THEY ARE SHADY and a lawsuit was the only reason they made good.