I appreciate you, sis! I watched one of your vids where you mentioned using the custom greeting. I immediately tweaked the CG in my app, and I use it for every batch now. It has DEFINITELY made a difference with a lot of customers, and the tip increases are the proof. Thanks much!
Keep doing your shi** !!! I’ve watched a few of your videos so far.You are the true definition of hustle and motivated. In the Instacart space. Why you don’t upload at least 1 a week, is mind blowing. You would literally be the face of Gig, Hustle life or whatever you want to call it. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Alex Nino, but you give me those kinda positive videos. An he’s got the trucking industry in a chokehold. I know you had family things that may have hindered the process. I wish you nothing but success and happiness! God bless!
Story for today. I hurt my back carrying a case of water (40 count) up some stairs. I was srill able to do about 2 more orders and i couldve kept going but im done for today and i seen a $49 for a 3 shop and deliver. Don't want my back to get worse so ill jump back on instacart another day
This just happened to me yesterday. Everyone else at the store was getting orders and I wasn't - they were only showing me trash. This happens to me at least once a week and sometimes more than once. Happens to the others too. Yesterday I wasn't down to roll with the punches and went home after making only 120. And woke up sick today to boot and took off. I needed a mental break anyway lol. The throttle is real. Sucks. But thanks for the upload. You should do more content even if it ain't IC. Var too.
Yea my area been got over saturated I gave up last year 4 years strong lol when I started being out for 5 hours and not gettin anything I knew it was over lol I finally found independent contractor jobs that aren’t driving that I do from home now with laptop and do this on the side now good luck to y’all still driving👍
Same. Thankfully, I live across the street from a Costco. Most days, I can sit at home, work on my other projects, and watch the app randomly. I'm sure I miss a lot of batches cause I'm not glued to the app. But if I see something good, I grab it. For instance, I snagged a 60 going 2.8 mi from Best Buy yesterday. Felt amazing to get one after waiting for hours.
I'm telling you, I'm feeling your pain. Not only does it get stupid slow sometimes but, even when there is orders customers are either out of their mind's or straight up taking advantage of shoppers with their 50 item 10 mile delivery thinking tipping 2 $ is o.k. like that shit ain't funny. I don't take shh like that but, you see them. Sometimes though I'll be sitting too long with no batches and, I'll take like a 20 item 2.5 mile delivery batch for like 10.50 THATS still BS like a mutha! I don't understand why anyone thinks it's o.k. to give someone 5$ to shop their damn 20 item food order and, use your gas to bring it to them. When you step in that store, unless it's 5 items or under , it's taking you 45 min. 20 items, shopping, checking out, bagging and, delivering is an hour of your time all together. Don't care how fast one can be; most of the time at least 4 of those 20 items ain't gonna be in stock so, now your stopping, texting the cust, waiting for response for replacement 4 times at least. So, it's gonna be an hour all together of your time. These people know it takes an hour on the average to do just smedium food order. So, if your a customer and, you think 5$ is o.k. for all that service your straight up taking advantage. Instacart only be paying 4$ and, shhh so, with your 5$ dudes working an hour for you for 9$. You want to work for 9$/hr? You don't go out to eat and, tip your server 5$ right? You be tipping the flipping pizza man 5$ right? So, why would you do it to insta shoppers who provide way more of a service. Shh just boils me. Sorry for the rant but, instacart is getting to be so not worth it. Their taking advantage of shoppers as well with their 4$ BS. With that and, custs on that slave dollar shhh it's getting ridiculous.
Well I work in a wegmans too permanently in PA and the game it’s same as you’re showing…People take batches sometimes it’s you who take it and the algorithm is for you sometimes not….thats why I’m not used to wait anymore anything profitable pops I take it ( I try to switch take one big order then small one and it works out really well making $1700 weekly.
@HimmyHendrixx don't tell anyone bro lol...the bots and illegal will trexk all the way out there keep your spots a secret can't film instacart anymore it's like stream sniping
Definitely days I feel like I’m being throttled. A lot of the time i feel like it’s at the end of the month. Days where I see stores say high demand and don’t see any orders or I’ll be next to other shoppers talking about “oh there’s a $50 up” and they show me and it’s not on my screen. I have a 5.0, no bad marks and diamond but hear a lot of the time later in the day “oh there was a $108 and $87 at Costco drop” and i was there at open and didn’t see anything over $35.
Definitely agree with you. Happened to me yesterday. I sat around Costco and multiple Publixes yesterday for over an hour without seeing any orders. I even had a friend who lives about a mile away from a Publix I was at put in an order and I never even saw the order. I can only assume a diamond cart shopper picked it up (I'm only platinum, but 5 stars, less than 100s / item shop time)
Great job sis. I'm in NJ area and we are over saturated with shoppers. I heard that IC adjusts batch pay rates because of the extra shoppers. Plus double shoppers on batches, bots, etc. It's ruff out there. Keep going, press on.😊
Been a shopper since 2017. Now a days you just have to take bad orders. Being picky makes day inconsistent. Since I started to just take most orders $20 and up I’m back to over $1k a week.
Hey! How many hours do you work to make the $1k a week? Also, do you live in a large city? I’m looking to do this on the nights and weekends to help pay off some credit card debt. Thanks!
@@irismargot92 last week made $1044, 41 active hours that doesn’t count waiting for batches. I take batches 7 days a week between 9am to 7pm. Definitely need to grind to hit these numbers consistently. Not a big city palm beach fl area.
@@irismargot92 Most $20 orders will take you between 45 minutes to an hour and a half to shop and deliver. Then you have to get yourself back into a hot zone to get another order. $20/hour is a pretty good average you can depend on when planning. There will be days where you make much more than this, but there will also be days where you struggle to make this. So to make $1000 in a week, you should expect to have to work 50 hours. It's not something you will be able to do if you're working as a second job. I use the app as a supplement to my income as well, and I just try to set a goal for myself of $40 per day. Some days this can mean doing 1 order and other days it can mean doing two to three orders.
I’ve been back at it for 2 weeks, nothing is ever more than $25. It tried to send me on 40 item trip for $7&change once. I wish I was bankrolling half as hard as what I’m hearing, I really don’t get this.. Edit: After watching another one of your videos I get it why you are getting great paying batches, and totally dig that you are rewarded for your consistency. I haven’t shopped since 2021, and started back with 5 stars still, I’m glad they didn’t write off my prior effort. I quickly reached gold in my second week. I am a student but have been going online after school. So doing some shopping everyday. It will be difficult right now to be “7 day consistent” Thanks for your work here!
Been a shopper since 2019. It's not the same. Took an order for $31.and change. It was a bad order. 33 miles for $31.00 but I needed the money and had the gas. Drive the 66 miles there and back and find my pay was cut by $2.00 for refunding one, ONE item. Now at $29.00 for driving a punishing 66 miles in rush traffic. It is just so not worth doing instacart any more. I wish they didn't punish shoppers for having to do a refund
When you drive out the 33miles after delivery..it’s best to find the nearest hotspot grocery store. Sit there and wait a while, usually instacart will set you up for another order coming back so your 33mile drive back would be worth it..
@@Mike-zk7rh :( I do door dash so I get the frustration. If it’s really bad and there’s no point in staying out I just take a bad order taking me close to home and try again the next day.
I wish u and Var weren’t just gig channels and do more stuff together like a couples channel with more stuff like: cooking, traveling, vlogs, pranks, gamings, Instacart funnyVid/Reddit reactions, hauls, workouts, mukbangs, storytimes, challenges etc that way we’d at least get more uploads🥲
I just started and the app has definitely been glitching( screen goes black, have to constantly restart or not allowing you to accept the batches you selected).
I’ve been considering doing Instacart, but I’m a little hesitant because of the insurance requirements now requiring commercial coverage. Any advice on working around that?
@@thecurrencyacademy Instacart sent out new terms and conditions that says they can deactivate drivers for showing anything in their app, I guess they've gotten tired of all the backlash they've gotten for those terrible batches they have.
How long do you wait around on batches before moving to a suggested location? Because when I moved from one location to another once I get to this location it tells me that the other one is the hot spot!!! 😂
Big Bells...ok, its bitter sweet to see that your area can actually be normal. i thought that yall was just in bliss over there with those good orders yall usually get. on the topic of the video, yes, they throttle folks and there's no real rationale behind it. now im between 2 wegmans. 1 where they allegedly use bots (i dont know how) and the other has teams of people working together and each of them have 2 to 3 phones. its a cold world over here
My thought is it's probably an algorithm that caps your weekly earnings and sees if you hit a certain amount it will give it to other shoppers who don't work as much or don't have that much money yet. I myself am getting uncomfortable and starting to move to other areas where rich people live. You have to go where the money is. I'm doing research to find the richest houses in a specific place 1m+. None of this 350k below house bullshit cause those people don't tip much. Most orders from them will be around 20-25 dollars. I'm hunting for 30-100+ consistently. So far I went to this new place and was getting +40 dollars 4 orders in a row so that's an improvement, was making 31 an hour from 3-7pm. But yeah probably the app is capping you so you don't make that much money so you can continue working for Instacart like a fucking slave. The same thing happens to me in my previous area. No orders for like 2-3 hours and than a like 70 dollar order drops. It always averages to 20 an hour, fucking evil people at the top of the food chain who have all the money.
we'll get these $60 ,triples [no-frills, loblaws] up here in canada. -makes u wanna tap but then it gets up beyond 75, 80 85 items. a grinder, takes a chunk out of your mental~ by the time you first-click until the last final drop it would've chewed up 3 hours.. so netting below 20/hr m'eh. otherwise, it'll be these 9- 14$ ones but still not enough of them
Trying to be a shopper, but have an genuine question that as shown if you are being picky with the orders, and later pointing out for being in the bad shoppers list, as I know we all have to make a living with the money, but the shoppers who are having consistent orders could be possible that they are not picky with such. Correct me if you feel otherwise?
They been doing this since they started requiring shoppers to be in the parking lot the only difference is more people were ordering then. This year has been super slow basically forcing you to take trash but i multi app instead i wont take trash ever under any condition.
I got a sturdy foldable cart at costco for 70$ like 3 weeks ago, makes all the difference on my time when i get bulky orders like those, or when i have to drag around cat litter 😅 Also, i got tip baited for the first time this week!! Always awesome to be abused like that by dishonest people
💯 the wife bought one and never used it... MINE! 😃 I only use for milti-cases of bottled water/sodas; everything else is bonus cardio 🤍 Tip baiting can make you lose faith on humankind, just don't internalize it....
I’m in NC and the orders have been ridiculous lately, driving me nuts. I thought it was just me or my phone , kind of funny they do this after having us sign the new rules!
hello, i admire u as one of the shoppers doing instacart. i worked as a support, i would hirely suggest that you should put a goal like complete 70-100 batches (not order but batches) a week so that you'll become a diamond cart shopper and receives batches that has high batch like over $30 and above for just 1 order in a batch. i feel sorry for those shoppers since instacart keeps on changing the process, as much as i love to give all of you an extra bump but i cannot since i am just working also, it might lead to termination if i do that, sorry
I have never start instacart and never had grocery shopping experience.. how can i get better in grocery shopping when i start instacart in future any tips ? Honestly i dont have an job and dont know where to start
Learn the store layout! Pick a store you feel comfortable at. Take your time at first, over time with more & more experience you’ll start remembering where things are & it gets easier ☺️.
I would love to know how yall are getting these types of orders. I’ve been a shopper (on & off) since 08/2016. The only time it was amazing was when I first started. I’m now “Diamond” and I’m still getting the shitty ass orders as I did when I wasn’t diamond. I’ve NEVER seen more than $175 in one day and that’s working 14 hours. It’s disgusting!!!
I’m so glad that you also experienced the same exact things that I do. I don’t feel so bad now I’m sorry that you can do that have to go through that, but I started to think that maybe it was me but now I understand that it is shady shit that they do
Getting someone to help you with shops is against company policies. You re an INDEPENDANT Contractor and anyone helping you shop wasn't cleared by Instacart with a background check. Its not fair to the rest of us that play by the rules and do the big batches solo like we re supposed to
Hi Bella, we appreciate your videos always quick question. Just wanted to know how Portsmouth Virginia is if you have any idea my stepdaughter just moved out there and was wondering how Instacart was thank you.
Hi there! I’m in Chesapeake just 10 minutes from Portsmouth! I don’t InstaCart out there… not great in my opinion.. Chesapeake, Va.Beach, and Costco in Norfolk is way better… in my opinion ❤
yeah i got myself banned from all apps once i sucked them dry out of all the money they had. Once there was no more money to be made i auto banned myself lol and moved on to another app out of anger and frusteration. I started with ubereats than hopped too doordash than after that slowed down and went from making 300 a day to 50 a day i hopped to spark now that's fucking dead. and by a miracle once i got banned on that my brother reminded me of instacart. That saved my ass especially in my state since the stores it uses are very popular.
Not to mention Instacart is taking our tips. I tell the customers i will not refund many items because they reduce our tips per item. I simply tell them whatever I don't ring up at checkout is what they WON'T GET CHARGED FOR, basically it's refunded. QUIT TAKING OUR FREAKING TIPS. I BELIEVE THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE IT IS NOT OUR FAULT THE STORE IS OUT OR THE CUSTOMER DOESN'T WANT THE REPLACEMENT
They are not taking tips away bud that's called tip% based on groceries cost it's a customer chosen tip option it sucks when u refund and you see that number drop but that's how % works you could always ask them to consider a flat rate tip but tread lightly if it's someone who offers 15% + on tips Some customers are pretty good at increasing tip post delivery if they seen you had trouble with the order
No offense, but you and your buddies seem spoiled. My area, Miami, rarely sees IC orders over $25. Instead of complaining, maybe be more grateful that you can decline $40 orders and make $150 in a shorter time. Trust me, its ALOT HARDER in many places
It’s not complaining, when we used to swing only great orders and then they have you just sitting in the car w no order or just seeing 55 item 77 units for 12$ of course we have an opinion about it
At least with DD you get consistent orders (even if the orders might be trash) On Instacart sometimes you'll be chilling in a parking lot for awhile waiting for an order to drop.
Hi bellpeppa. I got kicked of instacart for high rate of 16% cancelation. I reached out to TATVAR to see if he knows how to get reactivated but I haven't heard back from him. Do you have any advice? I'm Roderick or Rod from Richmond? Spoke to you one day up in sterling? TATVAR has my number if he has time to Holla. THANKS again and KEEP RUNNING IT UP! PEACE SISTA
Technically thats discrimination and these apps aren't bound to equal opportunity rights clauses.Everyone within an acceptable distance of the store should get the same orders and like you said first come first serve. And as we are using our time devices equipment and vehicles not to mention our own bodies for labour. We should have the right to cancel what ever we see fit without being rated. The gig app rating system is quite ridiculous. For example if they see many people cancelling for the same reason improve on the issue. Or if they see orders not being accepted within a dollar , mile , or quantity of item range. We are adults not kids. Is simply a form of control. Happy Driver/ Shopper, Happy Customer, Profitable company
What is your star rating and shopping tier, speed and cancellation rate? Hiding/declining and not_responding/availability/inactivity hidden rate which will also go into their algorithm for their bot to process which ultimately will result in shoppers not getting orders or slave offers. A lot of hidden or nondisclosed factors that you do while logged in goes into what you get.
I notice the algorithm will show me orders I’m more likely to accept. Or similar orders I’ve already accepted for the day. Maybe you took some not so great orders now the algorithm is trying to feed you them batches. But I’ve been having instacart remove batches in my doubles and triples a lot. It helps cut down the time and not cater to non tippers.
It's awful and slave labor. I used to make $600-$800/ week for good weeks and bad weeks were $500. Now for the from Feb-present (May 2024), $400 a week is average but really it's like $300/ wk because I ONLY TAKE ORDERS WITH LOL MILES AND ITEMS, NO MULTIPLE OF 3 UNLESS IT'S CLOSE TO $45 AND UP, AND I ABSOLUTELY DON'T ACCEPT ORDERS UNDER $13 BUCKS. THEREFORE, I WILL SIT FOR AWHILE WAITING FOR A GOOD ORDER AND IF IT DOESN'T COME, I'M OUT. USUALLY A FEW WILL COME ONCE A WK VS 3-4/WK. WE ARE NOT SLAVES
Everything seems to be the same for me….$300 per day avg. BUT you must change with the times. If you expect the same thing as 2020 before inflation you WILL feel a slowdown… I hope things pick up for you….good luck
They deactivated my account because the road to the woman was closed due to an earthquake and the road being closed off. And I sent them a bunch of proof of it and still deactivated. Joke of a company. Hope a better one comes out
@@Bellpeppa oh I have trust me I’ve sent 40 emails, and with the proof and they said after review my account isn’t eligible for re activation.. did this for 4 years and over 5000 orders. That’s how they treat me smh
Wow I wish I had seen this earlier cause I had the same issue, I didn’t see no batches pop up today and I’m sitting here thinking “What’s going on?” I removed the app from my phone, reinstalled it and viola batches pop up. Lol
The stores in my city have their own pick up and delivery service now. I see u we coming to just pick up groceries that the store already got ready. Instacart is slowly being pushed out of their own idea that made stores so much money
It’s just cause your account is new! Take orders that are low miles & a decent amount of items and climb up the tiers to diamond. Once you’re diamond you’ll have a better perspective of what orders are like in your area!
That's not how the app supposed to go, the courtesy clerk supposed to fulfill the order. Your just supposed to pick up and deliver. They f***** my s*** up
@@Bellpeppa if i try new areas then i must be in that location for the whole day? I thought you can sleep on ur bed until you get a notifications from instacart then accept then drive to that nearby location and then shop for them and deliver to them. Sorry i just started couple days ago. When you say new apps? You mean switch field like doing doordash instead?
Some days I get orders from everywhere in a 10 mile radius, some days I don't see any the only thing that makes a difference is driving to hotspots or stores that use Instacart for delivery. Not to mention ive been signed out of my account since Sunday because of the outage they had and Driver support has done nothing but say "Sorry we'll forward it to our team" 😭
In PA I’m lucky if I ever see batches above $50 few and far between and that’s even as a diamond cart chopper and I’ve been doing Instacart since 2016 and the same thing happened to me. I click it and I click it and I get it or at least I think I get it and it tells me I don’t,
Would you do a “Is it still possible to make $2,000 in a week with Instacart in 2024?” video/series? For me, the “challenge” videos are the most motivating content from y’all for sure 👍
Not worth it you have to pay a lot in taxes. They do not pay for your parking tickets if you get a parking ticket. The most they try to compensate you with five or $10 which is not nothing. do not work for this company waste of your time and trust me a lot of wear and tear on your vehicle they contradict themselves. They do not have a stable, organized structure, unprofessional unorganized
I’ve been doing instacart for 7 years back in the days I used to make 1200 a month as my second job it was a good side gig. Now I get lucky if I make $400 a month.
Yeah, they don’t show everyone all the orders. And there doesn’t seem to be rhyme or reason for it. You should seriously consider getting off of the platform. Your car depreciates at a much greater rate than the money that you make. Not even considering the time and menial labor needed to generate the money.
I agree in Regina SK is sucks wayyyyyy to many shoppers. I do not know why they need to have that many ? Its ridiculous. Having this exact day!!! I feel instacart should allow us to delete orders we do not want instead of hiding. 81$ is a good day here lol I do not understand how people can make 6 figures doing this job it males zero sense . Unless you are the only one shopping haha and you are working morning to night .
I appreciate you, sis!
I watched one of your vids where you mentioned using the custom greeting. I immediately tweaked the CG in my app, and I use it for every batch now. It has DEFINITELY made a difference with a lot of customers, and the tip increases are the proof. Thanks much!
Keep doing your shi** !!! I’ve watched a few of your videos so far.You are the true definition of hustle and motivated. In the Instacart space.
Why you don’t upload at least 1 a week, is mind blowing. You would literally be the face of Gig, Hustle life or whatever you want to call it. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Alex Nino, but you give me those kinda positive videos. An he’s got the trucking industry in a chokehold. I know you had family things that may have hindered the process. I wish you nothing but success and happiness! God bless!
Thank you so much fam 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Story for today. I hurt my back carrying a case of water (40 count) up some stairs. I was srill able to do about 2 more orders and i couldve kept going but im done for today and i seen a $49 for a 3 shop and deliver. Don't want my back to get worse so ill jump back on instacart another day
There definitely showing and prioritizing new shoppers and definitely releasing the batches differently
Exactly they are. That's weird
Girl I miss the old days of IC. I have the same problem in my area 10 shoppers at costco drop and were all seeing different orders.
This just happened to me yesterday. Everyone else at the store was getting orders and I wasn't - they were only showing me trash. This happens to me at least once a week and sometimes more than once. Happens to the others too. Yesterday I wasn't down to roll with the punches and went home after making only 120. And woke up sick today to boot and took off. I needed a mental break anyway lol. The throttle is real. Sucks. But thanks for the upload. You should do more content even if it ain't IC. Var too.
$160 in 3.5 hrs? That's really good in my book.
Exactly 😂!
That's active hours, not total hours. All hours totaled up appear to be around 10 + hours.
@@ShelterDogs Ok, good to make that distinction. For me I go by active hours though because I multi-app.
Well, the truth is, only Bell Pepper knows. But it appears to me she was only doing IC.
Yea my area been got over saturated I gave up last year 4 years strong lol when I started being out for 5 hours and not gettin anything I knew it was over lol I finally found independent contractor jobs that aren’t driving that I do from home now with laptop and do this on the side now good luck to y’all still driving👍
Same. Thankfully, I live across the street from a Costco. Most days, I can sit at home, work on my other projects, and watch the app randomly. I'm sure I miss a lot of batches cause I'm not glued to the app. But if I see something good, I grab it. For instance, I snagged a 60 going 2.8 mi from Best Buy yesterday. Felt amazing to get one after waiting for hours.
U didn't answer the question
What independent contractor job?
Lol, why aren't they answering the question?
I would like know as well what is you do I'm sick of driving
I'm telling you, I'm feeling your pain. Not only does it get stupid slow sometimes but, even when there is orders customers are either out of their mind's or straight up taking advantage of shoppers with their 50 item 10 mile delivery thinking tipping 2 $ is o.k. like that shit ain't funny. I don't take shh like that but, you see them. Sometimes though I'll be sitting too long with no batches and, I'll take like a 20 item 2.5 mile delivery batch for like 10.50 THATS still BS like a mutha! I don't understand why anyone thinks it's o.k. to give someone 5$ to shop their damn 20 item food order and, use your gas to bring it to them. When you step in that store, unless it's 5 items or under , it's taking you 45 min. 20 items, shopping, checking out, bagging and, delivering is an hour of your time all together. Don't care how fast one can be; most of the time at least 4 of those 20 items ain't gonna be in stock so, now your stopping, texting the cust, waiting for response for replacement 4 times at least. So, it's gonna be an hour all together of your time. These people know it takes an hour on the average to do just smedium food order. So, if your a customer and, you think 5$ is o.k. for all that service your straight up taking advantage. Instacart only be paying 4$ and, shhh so, with your 5$ dudes working an hour for you for 9$. You want to work for 9$/hr? You don't go out to eat and, tip your server 5$ right? You be tipping the flipping pizza man 5$ right? So, why would you do it to insta shoppers who provide way more of a service. Shh just boils me. Sorry for the rant but, instacart is getting to be so not worth it. Their taking advantage of shoppers as well with their 4$ BS. With that and, custs on that slave dollar shhh it's getting ridiculous.
Well I work in a wegmans too permanently in PA and the game it’s same as you’re showing…People take batches sometimes it’s you who take it and the algorithm is for you sometimes not….thats why I’m not used to wait anymore anything profitable pops I take it ( I try to switch take one big order then small one and it works out really well making $1700 weekly.
What market are you in?
@HimmyHendrixx don't tell anyone bro lol...the bots and illegal will trexk all the way out there keep your spots a secret can't film instacart anymore it's like stream sniping
Definitely days I feel like I’m being throttled. A lot of the time i feel like it’s at the end of the month. Days where I see stores say high demand and don’t see any orders or I’ll be next to other shoppers talking about “oh there’s a $50 up” and they show me and it’s not on my screen.
I have a 5.0, no bad marks and diamond but hear a lot of the time later in the day “oh there was a $108 and $87 at Costco drop” and i was there at open and didn’t see anything over $35.
Definitely agree with you. Happened to me yesterday. I sat around Costco and multiple Publixes yesterday for over an hour without seeing any orders. I even had a friend who lives about a mile away from a Publix I was at put in an order and I never even saw the order. I can only assume a diamond cart shopper picked it up (I'm only platinum, but 5 stars, less than 100s / item shop time)
Great job sis. I'm in NJ area and we are over saturated with shoppers. I heard that IC adjusts batch pay rates because of the extra shoppers. Plus double shoppers on batches, bots, etc. It's ruff out there. Keep going, press on.😊
Been a shopper since 2017. Now a days you just have to take bad orders. Being picky makes day inconsistent. Since I started to just take most orders $20 and up I’m back to over $1k a week.
Hey! How many hours do you work to make the $1k a week? Also, do you live in a large city? I’m looking to do this on the nights and weekends to help pay off some credit card debt. Thanks!
@@irismargot92 last week made $1044, 41 active hours that doesn’t count waiting for batches. I take batches 7 days a week between 9am to 7pm. Definitely need to grind to hit these numbers consistently. Not a big city palm beach fl area.
@@irismargot92WE DON'T NEED NEW SHOPPERS! FIND ANOTHER JOB! DO UBER!
@@irismargot92 Most $20 orders will take you between 45 minutes to an hour and a half to shop and deliver. Then you have to get yourself back into a hot zone to get another order. $20/hour is a pretty good average you can depend on when planning. There will be days where you make much more than this, but there will also be days where you struggle to make this. So to make $1000 in a week, you should expect to have to work 50 hours. It's not something you will be able to do if you're working as a second job. I use the app as a supplement to my income as well, and I just try to set a goal for myself of $40 per day. Some days this can mean doing 1 order and other days it can mean doing two to three orders.
I feel like it definitely is based on your acceptance rate lately. Definitely not the same as before..
I’ve been back at it for 2 weeks, nothing is ever more than $25. It tried to send me on 40 item trip for $7&change once. I wish I was bankrolling half as hard as what I’m hearing, I really don’t get this..
Edit: After watching another one of your videos I get it why you are getting great paying batches, and totally dig that you are rewarded for your consistency. I haven’t shopped since 2021, and started back with 5 stars still, I’m glad they didn’t write off my prior effort. I quickly reached gold in my second week. I am a student but have been going online after school. So doing some shopping everyday. It will be difficult right now to be “7 day consistent”
Thanks for your work here!
You got it, just grind up to diamond and it’ll pay off. hopefully you’re in a lucrative area!!
Been a shopper since 2019. It's not the same. Took an order for $31.and change. It was a bad order. 33 miles for $31.00 but I needed the money and had the gas. Drive the 66 miles there and back and find my pay was cut by $2.00 for refunding one, ONE item. Now at $29.00 for driving a punishing 66 miles in rush traffic. It is just so not worth doing instacart any more. I wish they didn't punish shoppers for having to do a refund
33 miles for 31 dollars make absolute no sense unless you somehow discovered teleportation
When you drive out the 33miles after delivery..it’s best to find the nearest hotspot grocery store. Sit there and wait a while, usually instacart will set you up for another order coming back so your 33mile drive back would be worth it..
@@Mike-zk7rh :( I do door dash so I get the frustration. If it’s really bad and there’s no point in staying out I just take a bad order taking me close to home and try again the next day.
Do you live somewhere where plastic bags are banned? or do you just prefer paper bags?
They banned them from the county I’m in!
I wish u and Var weren’t just gig channels and do more stuff together like a couples channel with more stuff like: cooking, traveling, vlogs, pranks, gamings, Instacart funnyVid/Reddit reactions, hauls, workouts, mukbangs, storytimes, challenges etc that way we’d at least get more uploads🥲
shut up
I just started and the app has definitely been glitching( screen goes black, have to constantly restart or not allowing you to accept the batches you selected).
I love my foldable cart. Saves on your back. Trust me you'll feel the pain the harder you and older you are. Best investment ever!
I’ve been considering doing Instacart, but I’m a little hesitant because of the insurance requirements now requiring commercial coverage. Any advice on working around that?
Don't tell them. It's only food or merchandise in your car. It's not ride share where you have human strangers in your car.
Yep I totally agree, you don’t need commercial coverage. It’s just groceries ☺️
Don’t show your phone anymore Bella Instacart been tryna take people vids down for copyright💯
What? For copyright? There own creators? There own drivers copyrighting them? That’s sounds off and stupid
@@thecurrencyacademylmao. It does sound stupid. 😂😂😂
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Instacart is wackkkkk
@@thecurrencyacademy Instacart sent out new terms and conditions that says they can deactivate drivers for showing anything in their app, I guess they've gotten tired of all the backlash they've gotten for those terrible batches they have.
Nice to see ya again! Hope you post again soon!
How long do you wait around on batches before moving to a suggested location? Because when I moved from one location to another once I get to this location it tells me that the other one is the hot spot!!! 😂
Your Mom is a O.G. she came right over to help you out with that order. Thank God for Mother's.❤
Big Bells...ok, its bitter sweet to see that your area can actually be normal. i thought that yall was just in bliss over there with those good orders yall usually get.
on the topic of the video, yes, they throttle folks and there's no real rationale behind it. now im between 2 wegmans. 1 where they allegedly use bots (i dont know how) and the other has teams of people working together and each of them have 2 to 3 phones. its a cold world over here
I will say I appreciate her showing her area does indeed have slow and low periods as well
My thought is it's probably an algorithm that caps your weekly earnings and sees if you hit a certain amount it will give it to other shoppers who don't work as much or don't have that much money yet. I myself am getting uncomfortable and starting to move to other areas where rich people live. You have to go where the money is. I'm doing research to find the richest houses in a specific place 1m+. None of this 350k below house bullshit cause those people don't tip much. Most orders from them will be around 20-25 dollars. I'm hunting for 30-100+ consistently. So far I went to this new place and was getting +40 dollars 4 orders in a row so that's an improvement, was making 31 an hour from 3-7pm. But yeah probably the app is capping you so you don't make that much money so you can continue working for Instacart like a fucking slave. The same thing happens to me in my previous area. No orders for like 2-3 hours and than a like 70 dollar order drops. It always averages to 20 an hour, fucking evil people at the top of the food chain who have all the money.
we'll get these $60 ,triples [no-frills, loblaws] up here in canada. -makes u wanna tap
but then it gets up beyond 75, 80 85 items. a grinder, takes a chunk out of your mental~
by the time you first-click until the last final drop it would've chewed up 3 hours.. so netting below 20/hr m'eh. otherwise, it'll be these 9- 14$ ones but still not enough of them
What cameras are you using to film?
Go pro 9
Trying to be a shopper, but have an genuine question that as shown if you are being picky with the orders, and later pointing out for being in the bad shoppers list, as I know we all have to make a living with the money, but the shoppers who are having consistent orders could be possible that they are not picky with such. Correct me if you feel otherwise?
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They been doing this since they started requiring shoppers to be in the parking lot the only difference is more people were ordering then. This year has been super slow basically forcing you to take trash but i multi app instead i wont take trash ever under any condition.
I got a sturdy foldable cart at costco for 70$ like 3 weeks ago, makes all the difference on my time when i get bulky orders like those, or when i have to drag around cat litter 😅
Also, i got tip baited for the first time this week!! Always awesome to be abused like that by dishonest people
💯 the wife bought one and never used it... MINE! 😃 I only use for milti-cases of bottled water/sodas; everything else is bonus cardio 🤍 Tip baiting can make you lose faith on humankind, just don't internalize it....
What type of iPhone and service provider you’re using?
14 pro max & Verizon
I usually restart my iPhone delete the instacart app and reinstall it every other day before starting my day work for me
I’m in NC and the orders have been ridiculous lately, driving me nuts. I thought it was just me or my phone , kind of funny they do this after having us sign the new rules!
hello, i admire u as one of the shoppers doing instacart. i worked as a support, i would hirely suggest that you should put a goal like complete 70-100 batches (not order but batches) a week so that you'll become a diamond cart shopper and receives batches that has high batch like over $30 and above for just 1 order in a batch. i feel sorry for those shoppers since instacart keeps on changing the process, as much as i love to give all of you an extra bump but i cannot since i am just working also, it might lead to termination if i do that, sorry
How did you get the job in support?
Music taste is immaculate 🔥
I have never start instacart and never had grocery shopping experience.. how can i get better in grocery shopping when i start instacart in future any tips ? Honestly i dont have an job and dont know where to start
Learn the store layout! Pick a store you feel comfortable at. Take your time at first, over time with more & more experience you’ll start remembering where things are & it gets easier ☺️.
@@Bellpeppa thanks 😊❤️
I would love to know how yall are getting these types of orders. I’ve been a shopper (on & off) since 08/2016. The only time it was amazing was when I first started. I’m now “Diamond” and I’m still getting the shitty ass orders as I did when I wasn’t diamond. I’ve NEVER seen more than $175 in one day and that’s working 14 hours. It’s disgusting!!!
I’m so glad that you also experienced the same exact things that I do. I don’t feel so bad now I’m sorry that you can do that have to go through that, but I started to think that maybe it was me but now I understand that it is shady shit that they do
I find it interesting that comments are disabled on all their ads. What are they afraid of?
What happened to tatvar?
Where you living..? What state?
Getting someone to help you with shops is against company policies. You re an INDEPENDANT Contractor and anyone helping you shop wasn't cleared by Instacart with a background check. Its not fair to the rest of us that play by the rules and do the big batches solo like we re supposed to
😂 get a life
@@Jake-be9ji I have 1, I dont need to have people come help me with mine.
Hi Bella, we appreciate your videos always quick question. Just wanted to know how Portsmouth Virginia is if you have any idea my stepdaughter just moved out there and was wondering how Instacart was thank you.
I’m not sure! I don’t know anybody there & haven’t been down there myself :(
Okay thank you
Hi there! I’m in Chesapeake just 10 minutes from Portsmouth! I don’t InstaCart out there… not great in my opinion.. Chesapeake, Va.Beach, and Costco in Norfolk is way better… in my opinion ❤
This is why I multi app none of these apps Are the same anymore.
yeah i got myself banned from all apps once i sucked them dry out of all the money they had. Once there was no more money to be made i auto banned myself lol and moved on to another app out of anger and frusteration. I started with ubereats than hopped too doordash than after that slowed down and went from making 300 a day to 50 a day i hopped to spark now that's fucking dead. and by a miracle once i got banned on that my brother reminded me of instacart. That saved my ass especially in my state since the stores it uses are very popular.
Could you explain the numbers you keep mentioning as I’m thinking of becoming shopper. Thank you very informative otherwise ❤️
Not to mention Instacart is taking our tips.
I tell the customers i will not refund many items because they reduce our tips per item. I simply tell them whatever I don't ring up at checkout is what they WON'T GET CHARGED FOR, basically it's refunded.
QUIT TAKING OUR FREAKING TIPS. I BELIEVE THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE IT IS NOT OUR FAULT THE STORE IS OUT OR THE CUSTOMER DOESN'T WANT THE REPLACEMENT
They are not taking tips away bud that's called tip% based on groceries cost
it's a customer chosen tip option it sucks when u refund and you see that number drop but that's how % works
you could always ask them to consider a flat rate tip but tread lightly if it's someone who offers 15% + on tips
Some customers are pretty good at increasing tip post delivery if they seen you had trouble with the order
Id assume there's an algorithm to which drivers are sent offers and which ones
No offense, but you and your buddies seem spoiled. My area, Miami, rarely sees IC orders over $25. Instead of complaining, maybe be more grateful that you can decline $40 orders and make $150 in a shorter time. Trust me, its ALOT HARDER in many places
It’s not complaining, when we used to swing only great orders and then they have you just sitting in the car w no order or just seeing 55 item 77 units for 12$ of course we have an opinion about it
I'm trying to figure that out... I'm in West Palm Beach and $30 is like.. tops
I click a good order and its immediately taken
I'm a dasher. DD pays horribly. Thinking about doing instacart.
At least with DD you get consistent orders (even if the orders might be trash) On Instacart sometimes you'll be chilling in a parking lot for awhile waiting for an order to drop.
Hi bellpeppa. I got kicked of instacart for high rate of 16% cancelation. I reached out to TATVAR to see if he knows how to get reactivated but I haven't heard back from him. Do you have any advice? I'm Roderick or Rod from Richmond? Spoke to you one day up in sterling? TATVAR has my number if he has time to Holla. THANKS again and KEEP RUNNING IT UP! PEACE SISTA
Your best bet is to just keep emailing them! See what they say, if they don’t respond keep emailing!
@@Bellpeppa THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR RESPONDING. YOU REAL KOOL
The definition of insanity is working for Instacart. Best thing to do is cut your losses and let them go.
Technically thats discrimination and these apps aren't bound to equal opportunity rights clauses.Everyone within an acceptable distance of the store should get the same orders and like you said first come first serve. And as we are using our time devices equipment and vehicles not to mention our own bodies for labour. We should have the right to cancel what ever we see fit without being rated. The gig app rating system is quite ridiculous. For example if they see many people cancelling for the same reason improve on the issue. Or if they see orders not being accepted within a dollar , mile , or quantity of item range. We are adults not kids. Is simply a form of control. Happy Driver/ Shopper, Happy Customer, Profitable company
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What is your star rating and shopping tier, speed and cancellation rate? Hiding/declining and not_responding/availability/inactivity hidden rate which will also go into their algorithm for their bot to process which ultimately will result in shoppers not getting orders or slave offers. A lot of hidden or nondisclosed factors that you do while logged in goes into what you get.
Oh....that's just superstition 😆
is this in florida?
I notice the algorithm will show me orders I’m more likely to accept. Or similar orders I’ve already accepted for the day. Maybe you took some not so great orders now the algorithm is trying to feed you them batches. But I’ve been having instacart remove batches in my doubles and triples a lot. It helps cut down the time and not cater to non tippers.
It's awful and slave labor. I used to make $600-$800/ week for good weeks and bad weeks were $500.
Now for the from Feb-present (May 2024), $400 a week is average but really it's like $300/ wk because I ONLY TAKE ORDERS WITH LOL MILES AND ITEMS, NO MULTIPLE OF 3 UNLESS IT'S CLOSE TO $45 AND UP, AND I ABSOLUTELY DON'T ACCEPT ORDERS UNDER $13 BUCKS.
THEREFORE, I WILL SIT FOR AWHILE WAITING FOR A GOOD ORDER AND IF IT DOESN'T COME, I'M OUT. USUALLY A FEW WILL COME ONCE A WK VS 3-4/WK.
WE ARE NOT SLAVES
listening to Var's music and i got the notification of your new vid 🫡
I love this comment 🥹🙏🏽
Can I use 2 accounts ? I wonder
You should get a cart. It will save your back versus carrying those heavy IKEA bags.
Everything seems to be the same for me….$300 per day avg. BUT you must change with the times. If you expect the same thing as 2020 before inflation you WILL feel a slowdown… I hope things pick up for you….good luck
They deactivated my account because the road to the woman was closed due to an earthquake and the road being closed off. And I sent them a bunch of proof of it and still deactivated. Joke of a company. Hope a better one comes out
Keep on emailing them over and over, keep sending proof if you have it. You just have to be persistent cause they’re annoying!
@@Bellpeppa oh I have trust me I’ve sent 40 emails, and with the proof and they said after review my account isn’t eligible for re activation.. did this for 4 years and over 5000 orders. That’s how they treat me smh
@@letsgomets07 look at the contract. you can file for arbitration
Are you shopping for those items or are you just doing pick up?
Shop & deliver
Wow I wish I had seen this earlier cause I had the same issue, I didn’t see no batches pop up today and I’m sitting here thinking “What’s going on?” I removed the app from my phone, reinstalled it and viola batches pop up. Lol
The stores in my city have their own pick up and delivery service now. I see u we coming to just pick up groceries that the store already got ready. Instacart is slowly being pushed out of their own idea that made stores so much money
You said you were on the app since early morning~3pm and on the screenshot says 3 hours on, also wtf 117 on tips but just 41 for batch… 😂😂
I just started insta carting and I’m not seeing what you see. I’m in the Atlanta area it’s rough all I’ve seen has been $20 batches going 28 miles
It’s just cause your account is new! Take orders that are low miles & a decent amount of items and climb up the tiers to diamond. Once you’re diamond you’ll have a better perspective of what orders are like in your area!
I’ve been shopping for Instacart for 4 years. I rarely see an order over $25. I’m in LA to
That’s crazyyy. I’m so tempted to go to cali & shop in different areas to see what it’s like.
If you're in LA and you rarely "see an order over $25" then it's probably your zone. LA is massive. Where are you working out of?
Patiently waiting for Bella & Var to drop the Onlyfans😂💰💯
You’re gonna be waiting your whole life 🤷🏻♀️
Me too
@@Bellpeppahelp I’m crying 😭at this comment Bella
WTH 😭
Thirsty ahh bottom feeder
Do you have a referral code?
AVER0956E6
Can you still make over 300 a day on Instacart?
Hey Bella You Should Try Shipt Or Roadie .. Shipt Pays You Like 10-20 And Roadie Pays You Like 25-45$
That's sad. I think all the customers should watch your video because I didn't realize it was a hassle for you all.
Some customers are super considerate 🫶 others not so much 😂
What car do you drive
2011 Prius!
Not only are the offers crap, Instacart is using any excuse to short shopper's on payouts. They are constantly ripping me off, $2 here and $3 there.
That's not how the app supposed to go, the courtesy clerk supposed to fulfill the order. Your just supposed to pick up and deliver. They f***** my s*** up
I think with instacart they split the bangers that way everybody can see a banger sometimes.
How in the world u get all their groceries so fast??? I spent 1 hour 30 mins on each order everytime. Any tip?
Experience!! lol I’ve been doing it for 4 years and I know my store inside & out but you get fast over time :)
@@Bellpeppa you know im so jealous of your income tbh… i did 6 trips so far, $85 for all that… my areas suck!!! Any tips?
@@tuanxex try out new areas or try other apps in your area :)
@@Bellpeppa if i try new areas then i must be in that location for the whole day? I thought you can sleep on ur bed until you get a notifications from instacart then accept then drive to that nearby location and then shop for them and deliver to them. Sorry i just started couple days ago. When you say new apps? You mean switch field like doing doordash instead?
No gig app is good since 2024
Just bought the bag, it will help a lot with big orders
Some days I get orders from everywhere in a 10 mile radius, some days I don't see any the only thing that makes a difference is driving to hotspots or stores that use Instacart for delivery. Not to mention ive been signed out of my account since Sunday because of the outage they had and Driver support has done nothing but say "Sorry we'll forward it to our team" 😭
They are either hot or cold I swear 😣
In PA I’m lucky if I ever see batches above $50 few and far between and that’s even as a diamond cart chopper and I’ve been doing Instacart since 2016 and the same thing happened to me. I click it and I click it and I get it or at least I think I get it and it tells me I don’t,
Turning your phone off doesn’t do diddly. Gig apps want their shoppers to be part time. 15 hours a week for all
Would you do a “Is it still possible to make $2,000 in a week with Instacart in 2024?” video/series?
For me, the “challenge” videos are the most motivating content from y’all for sure 👍
Definitely on my list!
How does an instacart shopper see a 20 dollar tip for a 200 dollar order 4 miles away?
Nah this job seems like hell on earth
It’s not always like this lol 😂
Tell the whole thing. What's ur rating? Are u 💎 what's ur score. U.know if ur cherry picking their not gonna favor u.
Don’t matter if you diamond! When I was diamond trash orders
Not worth it you have to pay a lot in taxes. They do not pay for your parking tickets if you get a parking ticket. The most they try to compensate you with five or $10 which is not nothing. do not work for this company waste of your time and trust me a lot of wear and tear on your vehicle they contradict themselves. They do not have a stable, organized structure, unprofessional unorganized
I’ve been doing instacart for 7 years back in the days I used to make 1200 a month as my second job it was a good side gig. Now I get lucky if I make $400 a month.
They definitely make you work harder now a days! But any money on the side is good!!!
On wow. I make between 500 to 850 a week as a side gig.
Is DoorDash and Uber eats better than instacart? For now
I have a 7 day series where I did dd and did pretty well, I feel like if you mix instacart w dd you can pull good $!
We miss you and luv ya! ❤
ikea bags is so smart
Yea im finding out the hard way. I gave t been a shopper for two years n right now in may 2024 in nyc sucks
Yeah, they don’t show everyone all the orders. And there doesn’t seem to be rhyme or reason for it.
You should seriously consider getting off of the platform. Your car depreciates at a much greater rate than the money that you make. Not even considering the time and menial labor needed to generate the money.
I agree in Regina SK is sucks wayyyyyy to many shoppers. I do not know why they need to have that many ? Its ridiculous. Having this exact day!!! I feel instacart should allow us to delete orders we do not want instead of hiding. 81$ is a good day here lol I do not understand how people can make 6 figures doing this job it males zero sense . Unless you are the only one shopping haha and you are working morning to night .
160 under 4 hrs is pretty good. I did 8am to 8pm on a Saturday in NY and only made 102 smh so not worth it
I made 25k in a day doing IC. Got a batch 1 shop and deliver 10 items, 12 units , 2 miles and pay was $2500. 😂
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So after u got paid 2,500 u bet it on fanduel and made 25 k?
Instacart is messing with everyone apps.
We need more bell peppa😢
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