Say it ain't so Mike! lol. Instacart is very profitable on Long Island. You want to isolate a neighborhood where there is 1 or 2 small supermarkets and you drive less then 4 miles. I make over $30 an hour with Instacart. The tips are phenomenal. CVS and 711 orders for $10, $12 bucks for 2 miles. All day long brother. Not to mention if you're taking orders on Instacart you're driving less, less for gas then just doing DD, UE, GH
I appreciate your opinion. However, this job is helping me so much financially and mental health wise. I only take low mileage batches. I only accept the batches with good tips and not too many items. I live in a very busy area. I love the exercise as well. I am also able to be there for my kids and not stuck on a schedule. Back in school as well. The music thing is also 🔥 👌 😍
He's not saying don't do any delivery service. He's just saying that at the end of the day doing fast food delivery is better and it is based on all the things he said. You can make 3 deliveries in the amount it takes you to do one order of instacart possibly make more money with less hassle.
I quit instacart on some day in 2021. I took a 7 item order for $13 going 1.6 miles. Then the customers started adding item after item I've already shopped for these 7 items I got 85 new requests for items all at once! I legitimately just left cart in aisle and left 😳 Uninstalled instacart and never looked back
It's insane how rude people are man if I ever got scammed like some stories I've heard where they drop the tip drastically I would be paying a visit to that house 😂
The out of stock items are the key issue and reason why it's not worth it. Putting the responsibility on the shopper to sit there and negotiate substitutions and rely on the customer to comply is absolutely ridiculous. These companies shouldn't be allowing them to order whatever they want and then put the responsibility on the shopper to just sort out all their inventory problems inside the store. That's why I quit Shipt, it's not worth it.
That why I like DD shopping orders, there are pre approved substitutions that I can just grab instead, so I don’t have to waste time contacting the customer. Instacart prompts you to contact the customer for every single out of stock item which is very annoying.
Shipt as well, contact the customer smh. I’m not going to lie though, I just used this week $1,000 side money from Shipt to get my big 80,000 car mileage service and car detailed and it felt good not using my main income to spend my $1,000 on my vehicle. It only took a full gas tank to make that money so approximately 400 miles on my car.
The issue is they want us to do two jobs and pay for one. Shopping can take way longer than it should depending on the store, they need to create it to where we can either get paid to package up orders or delivering them. This is why I switched to Amazon fresh delivery, all I do is pickup and make drop offs.
Another thing I disagree with on Instacart is that the customer can display a large tip so you accept the order and then once they receive their goods they take away the tip, it’s a lot of scumbags out here😬
On UberEats or one of them food apps you can add to your tip. But not downgrade the tip. IC need to be like that. That’s crazy people take away the whole tip or decrease it.
I mainly do Instacart & I gotta tell you - when it comes to out of stock items - lately around 60% of the people I shop for are NOT UNDERSTANDING & COMPLETELY UNFORGIVING. It's getting worse. From my experiences, most people are honest but the ones that are dishonest ARE THE WORST! I delivered a batch yesterday & the lady is trying to say that I didn't deliver 21 Coconut Pineapple Ice waters.... LIKE HOW WOULD SOMEONE NOT DELIVER 21 OF THOSE - PLEASE, SPARE ME THE BS! Instacart refunds their money to them. There's no repercussions - they will steal again and Shoppers are the ones that can be deactivated. Bs
The new trick is they are meeting me on the street and personally grabbing the order from me then reporting it missing. I've started to photograph the order at checkout, their address and screenshot when I'm delivering.
Also whats sucks the most is that the mileage they show doesnt include the mileage it takes to get to the actual store. Just the distance between store and customer
I left a cart full of groceries at Aldi because I was so frustrated today. So many out of stock items, and the replacements weren’t available. I stand in constant communication with the customer. To top it off she made several changes after I had scanned items that she requested! My phone died and I went to charge it back up. I dipped and canceled the order after bs’ing for a whole hour with her and Aldi. Oh…. And they were out of bags. OH!!!! Did I mention she lived in a high rise. HE LL NO for me. It was only $18. That should’ve been $50
Sometimes the customer won’t even answer 🤦🏾♀️ I had a customer who went off because her order wasn’t supposed to come to her it was supposed to go to Florida 😩 apparently she didn’t put the right address in😂 after she gave me an ear full I’ve decided to not do instacart anymore
Had a customer cuss me out because his Logan’s Roadhouse was running late (10 minutes past pickup time due to being slammed). I just unassigned and moved on. You do this long enough you are gonna encounter nasty customers on the platforms. Just blacklist delivering to them in the future
Not to mention the top goes down every time you have to refund. With everything going on still with the supply chain, a lot of the stores are still out of quite a few of the items and it’s even worse on the holiday weekends. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
For Instacart, since you have shopping time to consider, you have to look at orders differently. When I see an order I make sure it's a store close to me, the $ has to be at least 3x the miles and the total units (not items) has to be no more than the $. That makes a batch worthwhile. You have to quickly assess these factors because good batches are taken quickly. With a bit of practice, you can get good at quickly doing this and if you get good at it, you can make more than you can with just food delivery.
Completely agree with this and it's my strategy. People signing onto the shopping apps and having never shopped before, or going to stores they have never been to, and not understanding the time component will not make the $25-30 an hour target for a long time. If someone wants to take it as on the job learning and take the loss on a bunch of orders before getting it down, you could get profitable. It's not for everyone.
Yea, Im with you and Im in his market, I live in pittsburgh and if you are a 5 star, you make way more than uber eats or any other food delivery. 1. You have to know what stores to go to when they open (costcos at 10 etc.) 2. Be quick to see pay, items, mileage, with experience it becomes second nature. With that said at 10 in the morning ive taken over 10, 100 dollar batches more than 20, 80's and countless 70, 60, 50 that took no longer than 2 hours and no further than 10 miles. Food delivers take me at least 6 hours to make what I make shopping in 3. 🤷
Agreed!!! You gotta work smarter not harder. I actually live in a busy county that actually uses the grocery shopping app with Target and Weis order in my county, I easily make 100-300 bucks a day in a 4 hour window depending how I feel for the day on making some good o side money.
This helps me so much! I’ll start doing that. But most of the time I have to wait 20+ mins for batches to show up so I quickly do one just to not be bored😭
Mike, I agree completely. I no longer shop on ANY app for more than 5 items, and less than $3 per mile. Also, a sack of McDonalds weighs less than a case of water, and pays better.
It takes you 15 minutes to drive to the store and then an hour to shop at the store and another 15 minute drive to drop off the customers groceries. It could take you an 1.5-2 hrs.. that means you need to get a $50 plus batch… and those are rare you’re not gonna get four of those working 8 to 12pm.. A lot of InstaCart shoppers make $200 a day but they work from 6 AM to 5 PM
I work 6am to 5pm but I be at home playing da game waiting on an order . Never understood the waiting or driving around methods. In total it ends up 4-5 active hours due to 4-5 batches
@@ishaiahsmith I think a lot of that depends on where you live compared to the market you're working. For example, I could sit at home and play games waiting for food orders via DD or UE and maybe score 3 or 4 a day or I could drive 20 min to a much busier market and get 5 or 6 offers an hour. So when I do gig work, I am not really close to my home to do that but I also generally bring other things for me to work on or do while I wait.
@@MrCoincash yeah I’m in San Diego right in the middle so I go west to downtown East to the inner city north to the wealthy area of lo jolla all the way to the border of Mexico. I have a smaller rule of doing a grubhub order after an instacart order only if I receive one ,on my drive back home.
@@ishaiahsmith yeah, I live in a somewhat rural area that only just opened up to DD in the last 6 months and basically no UE coverage. I think a lot of behavior boils down to what makes sense for the individual situation and market.
@@MrCoincash very true imma buy land in Palmdale soon and I’m relying on work from north la Hollywood area to keep me busy but I’ll have to drive from rural Palmdale to the city everyday . I’ll probably be like you and worker longer days less times a week, my work method allows me mental health enough to consistently work 7 days a week without feeling any form of fatigue, I learned over years that is what’s most important in my life. I have anger issues and driving constantly doesn’t help it(:.
Your absolutely right on point! I don't see enough money , it's like i'm making less than minimum wage, and with gas is like $5 a gallon , I'm working for free!!! Having to shop for a one, two, three customers at a time, not to mention running up and down stairs! One order has 56 items and the other order has 40 items. I'm new to this app and I just don't see the money in it . I took one order for like $20 bucks and did not realize I had to drive at least 20 mins to get there and 20 mins to get back. I'm losing this app A.S.A.P They really need to pay more for in store shopping! Like a a lot more! Hourly pay plus mileage and tip. These companies are getting over big time making money off of slave labor.
Umm you aren’t to smart with orders then and if you’re going for less than 5 miles you’re not working for free. I just started ic last week n it pays a lot more than DD.
I completely agree with everything you said. I’ve been doing Shipt for awhile now and the time it takes shopping, communicating with the customer, out of stock items, etc., is just not worth it anymore. Especially since Shipt doesn’t show tips in advance so you have no idea that you just did all this work and then the customer leaves $0 tip. Happens all the time with Shipt Target prepaid orders (which is basically 90% of the orders I see in my market). I love doing the Walmart orders on UE though, don’t have to do anything but the delivery and I get better tips for way less work. I’ve pretty much stopped doing Shipt unless it’s a Preferred Customer or good bonus pay. And Shipt’s rating system is ridiculous - one person gives you a 4 star rating instead of a 5 and your offers will go down drastically. Meanwhile, the customer has no idea they just screwed you and probably thought 4 was a good rating.
@@luxuryqueen42 yeah, I used to go park at the Walmart closest to my house when I started my day and would usually get something. I quit doing all gig work recently though due to new full time job, so not sure how it is now. Good luck to you!
I do them on occasion when it makes sense. I wont do more than 25 items though. I had an order for 22 items, 3.5 miles to customer, took 45 minutes in total and payed out $70 thanks to a generous $45 tip
For out of stock items, I have good success with just picking reasonable replacements and if nothing reasonable in stock just refund and move on. Half the time customers just approved while shopping or I just message customer at the end of shopping about replacements/edits to order. If they don’t message in 3-4 min (send a couple “are you there?” Messages. If no response I usually just say “I’ll keep the replacements in your order, hope they are ok 🤞 “. At a 4.99 rating using this method.
I've learned how to roll with the punches with instacart because in my area it's busy but I've learned not to take certain orders. I do my best to not do any items over 30 items first off because that takes time. Secondly right now because of gas, instacart may work if the mileage is short and the price is good. My biggest issue is when the customer doesn't answer or they don't put the correct address or delivery instructions. It's still worth it for me especially because I do afternoon to overnight so my orders are fairly easy. Last I don't take these ridiculous orders like $9.00 for 70 items. Ridiculous.
I think the best way to do it is incorporate the shopping apps with the other apps and like you said, time to $.. for example if my goal os $25 an hour and an Instacart or Shipt order comes in that is a low item count for say $15, and I know it can be done in 30 minutes including getting to the store and delivery then it’s a slam dunk.. so being honest with yourself and calculating time to get to store, time in store and time to deliver, and if you can do that and hit your hourly goal then it’s a take.. but if not it’s a pass.
Depends on how far and how well you know the store. I'll be at the store in the lot,one pops in for say 24 items, I spend about 2 mins looking at the list. I know in my mind where everything is. Then I go in and start shopping. I haven't hit start yet,just looking at the list. I'm usually done shopping when I hit start. I wait for the 2nd warning. Then I scan my basket items. So my speed is like 5 mins for a 25 min batch. Checkout and go but in my area I don't drive more than 5 miles unless it's really good. I got an $82 dollar batch last Sunday,35 items 2.7 miles away and she gave a 5 star and was very responsive. It can be worth it is my point. Oh and I also send them a custom message when I start.
Ex: Hi, good afternoon Matt, it’s Albert your Shipt shopper. Thank you so much for choosing Shipt as a new member! I’ll be shopping your order from Target. Please let me know if you’d like anything else. Also, I’ll be keeping you informed regarding substitutes along the way! :)
Be picky about which Instacart orders to take. I live 1 mile from 1 and 2 miles from a different one. Take orders totaling 25 or less and larger tips with deliveries around 5 miles. I can make at least $20 to $25 an hour and drive only 7 miles. Yesterday I made $91.67, drove 30.8 miles and spent 4 hours total. That is even driving from my house and back. $22.92/hour and $2.98/mile driven. Way better than Amazon prime on a good day $88 for a 4 hour shift ($22/hr) but drive 75 miles (1.17/mile)
I am an Instracart shopper. I have been doing it over a year. I have 933 shops and a 4.97 score. Bottom line , there are way too many shoppers they have hired. At my score I should be seeing batches and I hardly do anymore. It's disgusting.
Completely agree, when I was Instacartin during the pandemic it’s was nice but then I hated it runnin around markets carrying heavy groceries, I lost a lot of weight that I didn’t need to lose 😅😂 but then the orders pay was higher you could get a $50,$60,even $70,& $80 orders now all I see is stupid high item orders nobody is shopping for 40 items for $12& gotta drive 20 minutes
I heard that everyone was banking when corona was new back in like march of 2020 , door dash any gig app everyone banked. It's like a legend to me cause i was like 16 back then and just barely am dashing but i wish i experienced those times😭
I can tell you Wal-Mart shop orders are by far the best. Everything in the store in my market has every aisle/section marked so its fairly easy to find. You can also go section by section an toggle between items so no going back to aisle's you've already been too. When it comes to item not there it will give you substitutes to which to choose from or you can pick your own. If its not close enough to the item requested it will not do it. Also, you don't have to talk to the customer whatsoever so that makes it easier cause you don't get 30 more items dropped on you. I honestly like to do them because for me there the most profitable most of the time and it requires less driving on my part so less miles on the car.
I’ll tell you the truth!! I started working Instacart very early before way too many people found out about it. $150 batches were common lol those were the best days!! There were days where making $500 in a day was the normal. However, now that they’ve just saturated it with a bunch of drivers, it’s turned into something like Uber Eats. $5, $8, $12 orders hahahaha woww completely went to sh*t. Instacart is NO LONGER WORTH IT!! You gotta evolve people! If ain’t making you money, you gotta move on! That’s what I did at least! ✌️ ✌️ ✌️
Exactly it’s better for me since I could get it done and do the next and have a better turnover rate compared how I used to do big orders and some dont even tip at all
Just started Shipt. Two big orders so far... took a long time. Customers smiled in my face left goose eggs for tips. One order was in the pouring rain. Rip off.
Great video. Also when doing these shopping apps sometimes the customers aren't really that nice. I've been yelled at many times, for simple things like ringing the door bell. Once a customer personally thanked me but than for some reason gave me a low rating. Than theres people who will report wrong items bc they want a refund.
I think Instacart was great when the pandemic started since everyone was stuck at home and couldn’t go out a lot to get their own groceries. I joined Sept 2021 and it was my favorite app to use up until Feb 2022. Now with the update where you have to be in a store parking lot to see batches it’s not worth it in most markets. Along with people going out more and inflation rising some shoppers see little to no batches in their markets most days
I started Instacart 2 weeks before pandemic HIT and my first week was like $400 for 20 hours. Now I'm lucky to make $30-50 a day for 5 hours of work. It has really changed and not all for the better.
I have mobility issues and greatly appreciate this service. I'm a frugal shopper, but a generous tipper. I'm happy to put the money directly into the shopper's hand. I subscribe to instacart, have had few problems, and the company was happy to "make it right." I set substitutes ahead of time, but often just request refund, as I don't like to put the burden of decision on the shopper. Some shoppers combine trips, which is o.k., but they got confused and left stuff we me I didn't order: free to me, but unfortunate for another customer. I'm on the third floor, and there is an elevator, but parking is horrendous. I tip 20% + because of that and also because I've been both a waitress and an Uber driver. I'd never do deliveries myself, because it can be very hard, especially in apartment buildings.
Honestly it’s because instacart will saying they have the item you want in stock, we try to find it and we can click can’t find then your secondary items pops up with a star that can’t be found either 🤦♂️ I personally I try to find the best possible replacement and if they don’t like it they just ask for a refund. A lost of stores are out of a lot of things constantly it’s pretty annoying.
Instacart actually batches orders together so your shopper may be doing your order as well as 1 or 2 others at the same time, shoppers have no control over that that is all on Instacart....and unfortunately it has become rare to see batches with just 1 order because it's cheaper for Instacart to pay us 1 batch fee of 7.00 and that could include up to 3 orders.....it's crazy and it's literally made shopping for Instacart not at all worth it.
That’s why I feel bad for people with medical issues and/or no car.... The driver can just decline it if it’s not enough money. So if you’re that immobile, I think you need a personal caregiver to get your food
@@DKdoomboom I didn't know that! I thought it was just the shopper "getting their hustle on!" I thought the shopper would make MORE money because of delivering in one trip, so it didn't really bother me. That's terrible if Instacart pays by the batch! The only problem I've had with it is that people mix up the orders sometimes, and leave me something I didn't order (a freebie for me), or take something I ordered to somebody else. (I still get a refund.) Even though it might be less driving than doing each trip separately, it's still MORE driving than making one delivery - and that's the shopper's time and money. Hope you find something better.
All depends on the shopper. I have been shopping for Instacart for almost two years. Like you said, my principle is to make not less than $20/hr. So, I choose my orders in such a way that I always get that. Up until February this year, I was making $2k/m easily. Even now, with items out of stock and inflation, I am able to make $1,200 working just 30/hrs. So, it all depends on you the shopper.
@@lyssa3903 Hi, it all depends on how well you know the shops, how fast you can shop, and the orders you pick. I will pick a $15 order is I can shop in 10mins, and deliver in 5mins. That’s $15 in 30mins. If I get another $15 which I can do in 30mins, which is always likely, that’s $30/hr. But I am very strategic. If it doesn’t fit my criteria, I wouldn’t pick it.
That’s a great strategy in theory, but almost no delivery will be 5 mins and in order to complete the shopping in 10 mins, every single item must be in stock or pre approved with a substitution that is in stock…which almost never happens. I expect to waste 30 mins up to an hour on every shop and basically look for the lowest mileage orders.
@@georgiegunn9577 I used to shop in an affluent neighborhood in Chicago. I only did three shops. I didn’t travel more than 20mins for delivery. There where many times I could walk from the shops to deliver to customers. Sometimes people will buy two or three items. I knew the shops inside out I could give you the maps in my sleep.
The percentage tip that adjusts really kills it for me. Got an order that only looked worth it because they had ordered several cases of baby formula. And yeah the shelves looked exactly like you'd imagine. It was $80 worth of baby formula they had ordered too, so not only did my pay get cut to less than half of what I had accepted but I also had to deal with the run around with the customer. No thank you.
That baby baby formulas shortage was no joke but instacart should of put out an email saying most stores were out. The app says things are in stock and their not at all and you have zero replacements
instacart is better for mileage and in general imo, considering how gas prices will continue to surge. i just do DD as a backup and nonchalantly on my way to/from destinations i was already planning on going to.
I find shopping orders too stressfull, unless they are just a few items. You have to be very careful on Walmart Spark. Sometimes they'll send you a shopping order. It does say "shopping" but I'm always looking at the dollars and miles amount first. Accidentally took one Sunday afternoon. They were VERY busy. Not fun! I did make $30 in an hour. But not sure it was worth the stress. Don't trust the time they say it will take!
I don't totally disagree with you. My wife and I both do Shipt. She did shopping orders (because she loves shopping) and I did delivery-only orders for the most part. I had two reasons for that. 1) I like the simplicity of it... 2) The Shipt rating system is brutally unfair. My wife got a three-star rating out of the blue. No reason given, but there it was! Suddenly she wasn't getting ANY orders sent to her. None. They go to shippers with higher ratings. She applied for "rating forgiveness" and the agent on the phone assured her it would be "forgiven" and she'd be fine. Well, it wasn't taken care of at all. So I stuck to delivery-only because you cannot be rated at all on those orders. If I did a shop order and a customer mistakenly gave me a four-star rating because the store was out of 20% of their items (it happens) then neither of us would be getting any orders. That said, my wife clawed her way up to a five-star rating and started getting orders again. She took three orders one day after her regular job and made just shy of $150 in 3 1/2 hours total. The issue in our market is that the orders are not coming in consistently, as well as the rating system that shuts you down for anything other than a five-star. That three-star cost us thousands of dollars and it took three months to get her rating back up. This despite her doing NOTHING wrong but the customer was rating their "Shipt experience" and didn't realize they were rating her and basically ruining our lives.
Shipt to me is not true gig work. It only works amazing for me because of the relationships I’ve built with members. I shop for the same people every week. Many text me ahead of time. You have to treat it different than gig work.
Also, In my area they don’t pay for the full miles just the store to their house and that’s not ok! It was fixed but it’s back to it. So I agree. I hope it gets better.
I do shipt and I make nearly $1000 a week working 4 days a week. I work about 6-7 hours. It’s only annoying when the customer doesn’t reply back as fast you would want. And yea the shopping is sometimes annoying. Good side hustle though.
I haven't taken an instacart in a year and I never took shipt because I never saw a worthy offer. However, I love the DD shopping orders. I get a lot of good offers, I never spend more than 20 minutes in the store and I like not having to wait around for a delivery. Always have to check the items first though. I've seen 10 case of water orders. Those aren't for me lol
Shipt recently hired a new CEO and a video was posted of him shopping one order and said "this is hard" he has no ideal make tips mandatory already!!!!!!
If your waiting longer than 5 to ten minutes simply explain to the customer, (if they don’t reply) (refund) Also, I’ve heard for replacing items. Ex) someone may need sugar free but they replace something with sugar in it and not the supplement, don’t do that. Something I thought as common sense but at a young age I might not of thought about that. Just a tip
I use them as my back up for flexibility when door dash, etc isn't busy. I will say I've gotten pretty lucky in general, especially when it comes to using the promotion as back up if an order doesn't tip. My market works nicely in the summer as well when everyone comes for vacation (beach)
I was making almost $60/hr in the fall with Instacart in Los Angeles. It was crazy. When March hit the orders cut in half. Now it's getting worse. I'm gonna wait it out through the summer and see what happens. Oversaturated and new shoppers given priority. Very tough out there right now.
So far my limit is 20 ish items in total. Has to be a store I know. (Albertsons, Kroger, Aldi, small scale stores) has to be close to my location and a reasonable drive back to my starting location or where I’m going. Plus the $ to miles ratio. Plus my goal is less then 30 total minutes. I don’t do it very often, mainly in the morning and if I am slow in the food delivery apps. Accidentally took a 50 item order and was in a unfamiliar store. I don’t do cancellations very often, but I will say. That was when it hit me that it was not worth the time or effort when I’m not the one that’s shopping for myself.
Funny you dropped this video. I did my first ever Cornershop order due to Uber eats backstabbing us bike riders and changing the alogorithm in Toronto to favour cars over us; I did the Cornershop order and it wasn’t worth the pay. It was a painfully long 45 min procedure and not worth $11.
So true, I can't justify taking a Shipt/instacart runs....the pay per time/miles makes no sense. Unfortunately, Spark is now added to the bunch...sucks in some areas
I live right in front of a Publix and I only do close orders from that store to my surrounding neighborhoods, I easily average 25-30 an hour. any gig app depends on the area where you are. My advice is to pick a single store to learn, choose the smallest orders, pick orders w/ the least amount of produce, and stay within 5 miles.
I've had some AWESOME days with Instacart/Shipt and I've had CRAPPY days. I've made $400 in a week for 20 hours of work, and I've made only $200 for more. I always make my goal $50-$75 a day and if it's a day that's like popping, I'll aim for $100.
My biggest problem with instacart is it seems like they make the base pay more when you drive farther from the store as opposed to the items we shop. I see offers all day saying 45 items 3 miles and 16 bucks, 7 dollar base and 9 dollar tip. But then I get stuff for 17miles 2 items and the base it significantly more. It's the one app where I care more about the in-store work compared to the driving. Just weird that they don't pay more for larger item counts.
I haven't done Instacart or Shipt myself, but I have done "Shop and Pay" orders with Uber Eats, and for the three times I've done them, my experience has been terrible. I've also had at least one item not be in stock and then I had to text the customer and then wait for a reply. The replies do come quickly but it's still a time consuming matter of back and forth, and even when I do get all the rest of the order done, I end up with LESS than what I am expected. The last order i did the customer, despite being thankful for all I did, decided to cut my tip with no explanation. Could be a sign of tip baiting but I can't be certain on that. In the end that order only made me about $12 for one hour of work. I'll just stick with food delivery on UE which has made me significantly more per hour and per mile, and leave the "Shop and Pay" orders to someone else.
I am halfway through your video and I must say I totally agree. It would be all well and good if the store had maybe 97% of items, but they do not. I spend so much time chatting with customers to make sure they are happy and have a good experience. Instacart could give a phuk.. This whole time the timer is running out, lol. So to provide great customer service makes you into a slow shopper? And get this my rating is 4.69. Support has no real power, The real power is hidden behind a curtain like in The Wizard of OZ, "trust and safety team" who will never get back to you, no matter how much support tells you that "they will contact you". Sorry if I rambled, but I just want it known that I put my customers first, even if instacart does not!
Just did instacart and I hated it. The app told me all the wrong location for the item, I had to go look for it, it took FOREVER and on top of that the credit card they gave me did not pull up correctly to pay for the groceries and there's a long line behind me
I completely agree. I’ve done several instacart orders, and along with unpredictable mileage, the app and payment system is too complex. The best orders are large, and include 2 or three customers, and many times a standard shopping cart isn’t big enough. Trying to communicate substitutes with multiple customers is too much headache. It’s not worth the money in my opinion
I don't check with the customers on every little thing typically the Apple at them know if I made a replacement and if they don't want it they message me back and tell me they don't want it
I'll pickup a shop and pay order every now and then on Uber/Doordash, IF the # of items appear OK and it's a store I know likely has stock. Sometimes you just need a change of scenery and it's not always about the money. Had a Walgreens today that was 4 items $11.19, 5.9 miles, took me about 5 minutes in the store...not the best but like I said I just wanted a change of scenery.
In my market(Chicago Western burbs) I did 10 trips for Shipt last week full shopping. Did $17.28/hr from time leaving my house to return. However, did $2.46/mi My per hour increased the last 5 deliveries as I got use to the app/store/checkout process.
Being a shopper is definitely not for everyone it's really something you should do only if you want to really do it which most people don't they just only want to do it because they are trying to make money
You sound like you’re outta breath, Mike. Thanks for another awesome informative video. I’ve been considering doing all these side “gigs” but they just don’t seem cost effective. I worked doing the Bird Scooter thing; spent probably a good 12 hours just to barely make my money back.
I have done 3 Shipt orders and they do not pay enough for my time and mileage. Doing those 3 deliveries only one person tipped me because I got caught in a down pour and the streets started flooding and that order only paid $9 with a $7 tip after getting soaked in the rain. One of the other 2 customers who did'nt tip tried to make me their preferred shopper and of course I ddint except that. WHy would I want to be your preferred shopped if you cant even tip, made $9.00 for 1.5 hours of work. Im am not doing Shipt shopping anymore, Uber Eats pays more.
The worst part is when they're out of the last item on the list and the customer doesn't have any substitutions so you text him and wait five minutes for a reply while walking aimlessly around the store before checking out.
Just grab the best sub you can or refund with a message. You don't have time to wait. Time is money. I give them about a minute or two,then I'll decide for them.
Spark has been good for me. I can choose pickup or shop and deliver. Shopping doesn't involve contacting the customer, there are about 3 substituted items to choose from and if not found you choose another option, or not found and move on. I average $143 per day if I accept 5 to 6 gigs a day, which I complete in 5 to 6 hours. I'm 3 miles from Walmart so I'm able to ride home after a drop-off and wait for another one. The key for me is to leave the car running if possible. I get quite a few shopping orders with less then 5 items, so I Lock the car and run in for 10 minutes. Don't turn the car off unless you're gonna be shopping for a long time
In my opinion, to do Instacart within a reasonable time you need two people working together. Sometimes the store is out of several things and that eats more time. Not worth it otherwise.
It’s usually not that bad with Instacart, if something does come up it would be faster to call then texting them waiting for reply’s. If you know the stores and get use to the layouts then it’s really easy. And the fact that it shows you how many items, pictures of the items and if it’s at a apartment or not you can literally just picked out the orders you like. Like when a Costco 1 item for $35 pops up you won’t believe it
I couldn’t agree with you more o hated grocery delivery. I tried getting back into it and the pay is awful now and when it looks decent they want you to do 2 or 3 batch orders. Or one large ores with over 130+ items. Totally not worth the hassle.
Yea bro its terrible here in chicago. I shop south side. Half the products are ALWAYS out of stock. Results in lots of lost time, and angry customers that dont tip because the order was half out
I just signed up for Shipt. Been doing door dash Uber eats and grub hub all at once for a year and a half. I hear Shipt gets great tips. Less driving too?
The process for replacements is a pain. It been around long enough that a lot of people have replacements pre selected. The base pay is $7 and someone leaves a $10 and they think that is good. Then selects 60 items thats 2 hours in store, 60 minutes if everything is there and easily found with no snags. Plus drive time and wear and tear. Most people would assume $10 is good because they think our base pay is more. It’s not it $7 no matter what and yes some times they add heavy pay and will boost it if it sits a long time. Even then the base pay is never more than $15-20. That’s only if the delivery is really far away. In my market it seems like most of them are over 8 miles away. I don’t understand because there are always stores that are closer. The same store. So $17 for 2-3 hours nope. Even 10 items takes an hour. With drive time and time in store. I will leave instacart sitting in the background while doing other apps. Only take the ones that pay properly. Low item orders need to pay $26+ because I know I can bang em out in an hour even with snags. Sometimes there will be a large orders that tip properly. Depending on size $60-100 and I will take 2-3 hours and not be upset. Those orders go quick so I’ll take it without looking too close if the numbers add up. Except my multi apping ability is taken away when stuck in the store. The pay is good so shut the others off and bang it out. I did an order the other day and made $175. It was 3.5 hours in store with 4 shopping carts full. Plus a break to run next door to Home Depot to buy a battery pack. To keep my phone charged an accessory needed for instacart. Its worth keeping it running as a back up. To wait for good orders or low item orders with a decent tip. That are going in the direction you’re already going. I recently signed up for Shipt. I ran it in the background for about a week. I didn’t find one single order that was worth taking. So I stopped turning it on plus my phone started to seriously lag with Shipt running. The problem seemed to go away when I stopped using it. Although I do have 9 active apps. I only seem to have the problem when I run Shipt.
I worked Instacart in 2020 when I was partially laid off due tot the pandemic to supplement my income and it was really busy back then but now it's awful!! Now with the app changes and low batch rate(and I live in a really busy area) it's not worth my time.
YES! Ty I had Q 675 dollar order today, the snags you call it were outrageous all that for an order that said prepaid but once I got to check out said the payment was declined! So I made 21 dollars for 3 hours of my time and was so upset. I’m in college and is just another way during down time.
I have done shops where so much wasn't available I just canceled the order because it's a waste of time because your pay decreases when you are not getting everything on their list
Hey... Ur thumbnail did catch my eye.. thanks so much for doing this vid.. I was very curious wtheck "SHIPT" was. I never did Instacart, so definitely needed to see what a person’s perspective was on them and pretty much answered what I dread to face. I am a PT shopper for Whole Foods already.. I shop at 1 store and I love it.. last thing I need is more confusion with Instacart & SHIPT. I do, however, deliver UberEats and do get Walgreens, Riteaid or CVS shop orders sometimes.. it can definitely be lil annoying since I don't shop there and their stores are definitely different layout in each different one I go to for shop order....🙄😩
I normally try to do the guarantees that are reasonable, like last Sunday I did a promo for 98 dollars guaranteed for 6 batches. Now instacart will throw promos like 48 dollars or 66 dollars for 6 batches completed. I'll ignore those unless it's something more reasonable like 3 or batches for those numbers guaranteed. I've been all over the DMV in the past (never again lol) doing instacart and now instead, I try to stay in a market and do orders there for the day.
Hi Mike! Hope you're doing well!🎉❤ Great annalysis and value on IC n Shipt!🎉❤ Excellent tips on cons of shopping orders, etc!🎉❤ Stay safe and hope all your shifts are prosperous!🎉❤
If you have shipt preffered members, that tip well, its worth it, you need to do hundereds of orders to get prefered members ive done 180 and have 15 PM's all tip decent.
⚡If you do want to consider Instacart watch out for this customer scam (that is now fixed?): ruclips.net/video/9xzuzkFfK7U/видео.html&t
Say it ain't so Mike! lol.
Instacart is very profitable on Long Island. You want to isolate a neighborhood where there is 1 or 2 small supermarkets and you drive less then 4 miles. I make over $30 an hour with Instacart. The tips are phenomenal.
CVS and 711 orders for $10, $12 bucks for 2 miles. All day long brother.
Not to mention if you're taking orders on Instacart you're driving less, less for gas then just doing DD, UE, GH
I appreciate your opinion. However, this job is helping me so much financially and mental health wise. I only take low mileage batches. I only accept the batches with good tips and not too many items. I live in a very busy area. I love the exercise as well. I am also able to be there for my kids and not stuck on a schedule. Back in school as well. The music thing is also 🔥 👌 😍
All good points!
He's not saying don't do any delivery service. He's just saying that at the end of the day doing fast food delivery is better and it is based on all the things he said. You can make 3 deliveries in the amount it takes you to do one order of instacart possibly make more money with less hassle.
My cousin likes it as well.
I agree I stay within a 1 mile radius of my house and I get about $70 doing just 3-4 hours per day .
@@jdav1984 that's amazing!
I quit instacart on some day in 2021. I took a 7 item order for $13 going 1.6 miles. Then the customers started adding item after item I've already shopped for these 7 items I got 85 new requests for items all at once! I legitimately just left cart in aisle and left 😳 Uninstalled instacart and never looked back
👍
I would’ve done the same thing. Fk that lol
It's insane how rude people are man if I ever got scammed like some stories I've heard where they drop the tip drastically I would be paying a visit to that house 😂
Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Kbunney 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The out of stock items are the key issue and reason why it's not worth it. Putting the responsibility on the shopper to sit there and negotiate substitutions and rely on the customer to comply is absolutely ridiculous. These companies shouldn't be allowing them to order whatever they want and then put the responsibility on the shopper to just sort out all their inventory problems inside the store. That's why I quit Shipt, it's not worth it.
That why I like DD shopping orders, there are pre approved substitutions that I can just grab instead, so I don’t have to waste time contacting the customer. Instacart prompts you to contact the customer for every single out of stock item which is very annoying.
This is why I’m quitting instacart
Shipt as well, contact the customer smh. I’m not going to lie though, I just used this week $1,000 side money from Shipt to get my big 80,000 car mileage service and car detailed and it felt good not using my main income to spend my $1,000 on my vehicle. It only took a full gas tank to make that money so approximately 400 miles on my car.
Just terrible. If you can’t just pick up the order and go every time, it’s def not worth it.
He’s on lg
The issue is they want us to do two jobs and pay for one. Shopping can take way longer than it should depending on the store, they need to create it to where we can either get paid to package up orders or delivering them. This is why I switched to Amazon fresh delivery, all I do is pickup and make drop offs.
How do you apply to amazon fresh delivery? Answer: Apply to Amazon Flex
I need that ! That’s how Instacart needs to move smdh
They do but I believe the store shopper is only 30 hrs a week and ur on a schedule and your not allowed to do both
Another thing I disagree with on Instacart is that the customer can display a large tip so you accept the order and then once they receive their goods they take away the tip, it’s a lot of scumbags out here😬
That happened to me a lot.
On UberEats or one of them food apps you can add to your tip. But not downgrade the tip. IC need to be like that. That’s crazy people take away the whole tip or decrease it.
this is true, it has happened to me several times
They do that on Uber Eats as well!!
@@stevenevangelist5221That sucks!
I mainly do Instacart & I gotta tell you - when it comes to out of stock items - lately around 60% of the people I shop for are NOT UNDERSTANDING & COMPLETELY UNFORGIVING. It's getting worse.
From my experiences, most people are honest but the ones that are dishonest ARE THE WORST! I delivered a batch yesterday & the lady is trying to say that I didn't deliver 21 Coconut Pineapple Ice waters.... LIKE HOW WOULD SOMEONE NOT DELIVER 21 OF THOSE - PLEASE, SPARE ME THE BS!
Instacart refunds their money to them.
There's no repercussions - they will steal again and Shoppers are the ones that can be deactivated. Bs
Don't worry, they'll definitely go to hell for it
And their support is absolutely garbage
@@Shotzzilla Is it really. Dang
The new trick is they are meeting me on the street and personally grabbing the order from me then reporting it missing. I've started to photograph the order at checkout, their address and screenshot when I'm delivering.
I agree
Also whats sucks the most is that the mileage they show doesnt include the mileage it takes to get to the actual store. Just the distance between store and customer
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙...
I left a cart full of groceries at Aldi because I was so frustrated today. So many out of stock items, and the replacements weren’t available. I stand in constant communication with the customer. To top it off she made several changes after I had scanned items that she requested! My phone died and I went to charge it back up. I dipped and canceled the order after bs’ing for a whole hour with her and Aldi. Oh…. And they were out of bags. OH!!!! Did I mention she lived in a high rise. HE LL NO for me. It was only $18. That should’ve been $50
DANG!! I feel you!! I experienced that today. haha
Don't ever shop at ALDI. They always run out of things especially later in the day.
Sometimes the customer won’t even answer 🤦🏾♀️ I had a customer who went off because her order wasn’t supposed to come to her it was supposed to go to Florida 😩 apparently she didn’t put the right address in😂 after she gave me an ear full I’ve decided to not do instacart anymore
I get it dear, but don’t let one lazy person get to your $ like that but I get it being a side door dash driver
Had a customer cuss me out because his Logan’s Roadhouse was running late (10 minutes past pickup time due to being slammed). I just unassigned and moved on. You do this long enough you are gonna encounter nasty customers on the platforms. Just blacklist delivering to them in the future
You are supposed to report abuse!
🤦🏼♀️
That's good because you are not cut out for this job have a great life
Shipt & Instacart isn't paying anymore. Everything has to depend on tips, not batch pay. Corporate greed got to these both companies.
Not to mention the top goes down every time you have to refund. With everything going on still with the supply chain, a lot of the stores are still out of quite a few of the items and it’s even worse on the holiday weekends. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
He’s on lg
Preach!!!!! I'm in NJ and these cheap mofo's don't tip I feel sorry for the full time shoppers
For Instacart, since you have shopping time to consider, you have to look at orders differently. When I see an order I make sure it's a store close to me, the $ has to be at least 3x the miles and the total units (not items) has to be no more than the $. That makes a batch worthwhile.
You have to quickly assess these factors because good batches are taken quickly. With a bit of practice, you can get good at quickly doing this and if you get good at it, you can make more than you can with just food delivery.
Completely agree with this and it's my strategy. People signing onto the shopping apps and having never shopped before, or going to stores they have never been to, and not understanding the time component will not make the $25-30 an hour target for a long time. If someone wants to take it as on the job learning and take the loss on a bunch of orders before getting it down, you could get profitable. It's not for everyone.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙...
Yea, Im with you and Im in his market, I live in pittsburgh and if you are a 5 star, you make way more than uber eats or any other food delivery. 1. You have to know what stores to go to when they open (costcos at 10 etc.) 2. Be quick to see pay, items, mileage, with experience it becomes second nature. With that said at 10 in the morning ive taken over 10, 100 dollar batches more than 20, 80's and countless 70, 60, 50 that took no longer than 2 hours and no further than 10 miles. Food delivers take me at least 6 hours to make what I make shopping in 3. 🤷
Agreed!!! You gotta work smarter not harder. I actually live in a busy county that actually uses the grocery shopping app with Target and Weis order in my county, I easily make 100-300 bucks a day in a 4 hour window depending how I feel for the day on making some good o side money.
This helps me so much! I’ll start doing that. But most of the time I have to wait 20+ mins for batches to show up so I quickly do one just to not be bored😭
Mike, I agree completely. I no longer shop on ANY app for more than 5 items, and less than $3 per mile. Also, a sack of McDonalds weighs less than a case of water, and pays better.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙...
Agreed. I learned my lesson about my Uber "Shop and Pay" fiascos. Never again.
A sack of McDonald's 🤣🤣
I did Doordash and it wasn't worth it
It takes you 15 minutes to drive to the store and then an hour to shop at the store and another 15 minute drive to drop off the customers groceries. It could take you an 1.5-2 hrs.. that means you need to get a $50 plus batch… and those are rare you’re not gonna get four of those working 8 to 12pm.. A lot of InstaCart shoppers make $200 a day but they work from 6 AM to 5 PM
I work 6am to 5pm but I be at home playing da game waiting on an order . Never understood the waiting or driving around methods. In total it ends up 4-5 active hours due to 4-5 batches
@@ishaiahsmith I think a lot of that depends on where you live compared to the market you're working.
For example, I could sit at home and play games waiting for food orders via DD or UE and maybe score 3 or 4 a day or I could drive 20 min to a much busier market and get 5 or 6 offers an hour.
So when I do gig work, I am not really close to my home to do that but I also generally bring other things for me to work on or do while I wait.
@@MrCoincash yeah I’m in San Diego right in the middle so I go west to downtown East to the inner city north to the wealthy area of lo jolla all the way to the border of Mexico. I have a smaller rule of doing a grubhub order after an instacart order only if I receive one ,on my drive back home.
@@ishaiahsmith yeah, I live in a somewhat rural area that only just opened up to DD in the last 6 months and basically no UE coverage. I think a lot of behavior boils down to what makes sense for the individual situation and market.
@@MrCoincash very true imma buy land in Palmdale soon and I’m relying on work from north la Hollywood area to keep me busy but I’ll have to drive from rural Palmdale to the city everyday . I’ll probably be like you and worker longer days less times a week, my work method allows me mental health enough to consistently work 7 days a week without feeling any form of fatigue, I learned over years that is what’s most important in my life. I have anger issues and driving constantly doesn’t help it(:.
Your absolutely right on point! I don't see enough money , it's like i'm making less than minimum wage, and with gas is like $5 a gallon , I'm working for free!!! Having to shop for a one, two, three customers at a time, not to mention running up and down stairs! One order has 56 items and the other order has 40 items. I'm new to this app and I just don't see the money in it . I took one order for like $20 bucks and did not realize I had to drive at least 20 mins to get there and 20 mins to get back. I'm losing this app A.S.A.P They really need to pay more for in store shopping! Like a a lot more! Hourly pay plus mileage and tip. These companies are getting over big time making money off of slave labor.
Umm you aren’t to smart with orders then and if you’re going for less than 5 miles you’re not working for free. I just started ic last week n it pays a lot more than DD.
@@Shotzzillathankyou
I completely agree with everything you said. I’ve been doing Shipt for awhile now and the time it takes shopping, communicating with the customer, out of stock items, etc., is just not worth it anymore. Especially since Shipt doesn’t show tips in advance so you have no idea that you just did all this work and then the customer leaves $0 tip. Happens all the time with Shipt Target prepaid orders (which is basically 90% of the orders I see in my market). I love doing the Walmart orders on UE though, don’t have to do anything but the delivery and I get better tips for way less work. I’ve pretty much stopped doing Shipt unless it’s a Preferred Customer or good bonus pay. And Shipt’s rating system is ridiculous - one person gives you a 4 star rating instead of a 5 and your offers will go down drastically. Meanwhile, the customer has no idea they just screwed you and probably thought 4 was a good rating.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
Yup shipt is getting worst we provide a great service for these people and they can't tip smdh
@Crabby Cake if i wanna get Walmart orders, do i just park in any Walmart to get them to show up on the UE app?
@@luxuryqueen42 yeah, I used to go park at the Walmart closest to my house when I started my day and would usually get something. I quit doing all gig work recently though due to new full time job, so not sure how it is now. Good luck to you!
@@crabbycake8770 thank u for ur response. Good luck on ur new job 👍
I do them on occasion when it makes sense. I wont do more than 25 items though. I had an order for 22 items, 3.5 miles to customer, took 45 minutes in total and payed out $70 thanks to a generous $45 tip
For out of stock items, I have good success with just picking reasonable replacements and if nothing reasonable in stock just refund and move on. Half the time customers just approved while shopping or I just message customer at the end of shopping about replacements/edits to order. If they don’t message in 3-4 min (send a couple “are you there?” Messages. If no response I usually just say “I’ll keep the replacements in your order, hope they are ok 🤞 “. At a 4.99 rating using this method.
Yep
I've learned how to roll with the punches with instacart because in my area it's busy but I've learned not to take certain orders. I do my best to not do any items over 30 items first off because that takes time. Secondly right now because of gas, instacart may work if the mileage is short and the price is good. My biggest issue is when the customer doesn't answer or they don't put the correct address or delivery instructions. It's still worth it for me especially because I do afternoon to overnight so my orders are fairly easy. Last I don't take these ridiculous orders like $9.00 for 70 items. Ridiculous.
I think the best way to do it is incorporate the shopping apps with the other apps and like you said, time to $.. for example if my goal os $25 an hour and an Instacart or Shipt order comes in that is a low item count for say $15, and I know it can be done in 30 minutes including getting to the store and delivery then it’s a slam dunk.. so being honest with yourself and calculating time to get to store, time in store and time to deliver, and if you can do that and hit your hourly goal then it’s a take.. but if not it’s a pass.
I do the delivery-only orders for Shipt, as a fill in for my regular gig. I realized long ago that the shopping part never pays enough.
I agree. It takes too much time to shop, then deliver.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
Depends on how far and how well you know the store. I'll be at the store in the lot,one pops in for say 24 items, I spend about 2 mins looking at the list. I know in my mind where everything is. Then I go in and start shopping. I haven't hit start yet,just looking at the list. I'm usually done shopping when I hit start. I wait for the 2nd warning. Then I scan my basket items. So my speed is like 5 mins for a 25 min batch. Checkout and go but in my area I don't drive more than 5 miles unless it's really good. I got an $82 dollar batch last Sunday,35 items 2.7 miles away and she gave a 5 star and was very responsive. It can be worth it is my point. Oh and I also send them a custom message when I start.
@@MonteLeeMyPOV what is an example of your custom message?
Ex: Hi, good afternoon Matt, it’s Albert your Shipt shopper. Thank you so much for choosing Shipt as a new member! I’ll be shopping your order from Target. Please let me know if you’d like anything else. Also, I’ll be keeping you informed regarding substitutes along the way! :)
I could do food delievery for 8 hours straight not break a sweat but imagine doing instacart for 8 hours you would be exhausted.
I prefer it. Its more work but since I don't go to the gym,it's exercise
This mainly applies to states other than CA. Here we have a guaranteed minimum, and it is actually worth it.
Oh they don’t have that everywhere? Ya I look forward to my Thursday adjustments!
Be picky about which Instacart orders to take. I live 1 mile from 1 and 2 miles from a different one. Take orders totaling 25 or less and larger tips with deliveries around 5 miles. I can make at least $20 to $25 an hour and drive only 7 miles. Yesterday I made $91.67, drove 30.8 miles and spent 4 hours total. That is even driving from my house and back.
$22.92/hour and $2.98/mile driven.
Way better than Amazon prime on a good day $88 for a 4 hour shift ($22/hr) but drive 75 miles (1.17/mile)
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
I am an Instracart shopper. I have been doing it over a year. I have 933 shops and a 4.97 score. Bottom line , there are way too many shoppers they have hired. At my score I should be seeing batches and I hardly do anymore. It's disgusting.
Completely agree, when I was Instacartin during the pandemic it’s was nice but then I hated it runnin around markets carrying heavy groceries, I lost a lot of weight that I didn’t need to lose 😅😂 but then the orders pay was higher you could get a $50,$60,even $70,& $80 orders now all I see is stupid high item orders nobody is shopping for 40 items for $12& gotta drive 20 minutes
He’s on lg
I heard that everyone was banking when corona was new back in like march of 2020 , door dash any gig app everyone banked. It's like a legend to me cause i was like 16 back then and just barely am dashing but i wish i experienced those times😭
I can tell you Wal-Mart shop orders are by far the best. Everything in the store in my market has every aisle/section marked so its fairly easy to find. You can also go section by section an toggle between items so no going back to aisle's you've already been too. When it comes to item not there it will give you substitutes to which to choose from or you can pick your own. If its not close enough to the item requested it will not do it. Also, you don't have to talk to the customer whatsoever so that makes it easier cause you don't get 30 more items dropped on you. I honestly like to do them because for me there the most profitable most of the time and it requires less driving on my part so less miles on the car.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
I’ll tell you the truth!! I started working Instacart very early before way too many people found out about it. $150 batches were common lol those were the best days!! There were days where making $500 in a day was the normal. However, now that they’ve just saturated it with a bunch of drivers, it’s turned into something like Uber Eats. $5, $8, $12 orders hahahaha woww completely went to sh*t. Instacart is NO LONGER WORTH IT!! You gotta evolve people! If ain’t making you money, you gotta move on! That’s what I did at least! ✌️ ✌️ ✌️
It’s only worth it for small orders…I’m not taking big orders that take forever
Exactly it’s better for me since I could get it done and do the next and have a better turnover rate compared how I used to do big orders and some
dont even tip at all
Just started Shipt. Two big orders so far... took a long time. Customers smiled in my face left goose eggs for tips. One order was in the pouring rain. Rip off.
As a current shipt shopper I want to just say it depends on your market. I’m good/happy and make GREAT money in LA. 😁
The worst is when the customer adds numerous items to their order as you are shopping. You are accepting on the number of items and time to shop.
They shouldn't be allowed to add items. Maybe just one at the most.
Great video. Also when doing these shopping apps sometimes the customers aren't really that nice. I've been yelled at many times, for simple things like ringing the door bell. Once a customer personally thanked me but than for some reason gave me a low rating. Than theres people who will report wrong items bc they want a refund.
I think Instacart was great when the pandemic started since everyone was stuck at home and couldn’t go out a lot to get their own groceries. I joined Sept 2021 and it was my favorite app to use up until Feb 2022.
Now with the update where you have to be in a store parking lot to see batches it’s not worth it in most markets. Along with people going out more and inflation rising some shoppers see little to no batches in their markets most days
But I don't remember one time never being able to go to the grocery store.
@@knuck003 some people were afraid to go out and go inside stores cause of the stay at home order. My mom was like that cause of her health
@@laurenallen5575 commie lockdowns
Yes. Instacart was amazing during the pandemic. I made a ton of money then. Nowadays not so much.
I started Instacart 2 weeks before pandemic HIT and my first week was like $400 for 20 hours. Now I'm lucky to make $30-50 a day for 5 hours of work. It has really changed and not all for the better.
I have mobility issues and greatly appreciate this service. I'm a frugal shopper, but a generous tipper. I'm happy to put the money directly into the shopper's hand. I subscribe to instacart, have had few problems, and the company was happy to "make it right." I set substitutes ahead of time, but often just request refund, as I don't like to put the burden of decision on the shopper. Some shoppers combine trips, which is o.k., but they got confused and left stuff we me I didn't order: free to me, but unfortunate for another customer. I'm on the third floor, and there is an elevator, but parking is horrendous. I tip 20% + because of that and also because I've been both a waitress and an Uber driver. I'd never do deliveries myself, because it can be very hard, especially in apartment buildings.
Switch to doordash for your groceries if you can, they pay the shoppers better and the interface is so easy, thanks for the generous tips 😊
Honestly it’s because instacart will saying they have the item you want in stock, we try to find it and we can click can’t find then your secondary items pops up with a star that can’t be found either 🤦♂️ I personally I try to find the best possible replacement and if they don’t like it they just ask for a refund. A lost of stores are out of a lot of things constantly it’s pretty annoying.
Instacart actually batches orders together so your shopper may be doing your order as well as 1 or 2 others at the same time, shoppers have no control over that that is all on Instacart....and unfortunately it has become rare to see batches with just 1 order because it's cheaper for Instacart to pay us 1 batch fee of 7.00 and that could include up to 3 orders.....it's crazy and it's literally made shopping for Instacart not at all worth it.
That’s why I feel bad for people with medical issues and/or no car.... The driver can just decline it if it’s not enough money. So if you’re that immobile, I think you need a personal caregiver to get your food
@@DKdoomboom I didn't know that! I thought it was just the shopper "getting their hustle on!" I thought the shopper would make MORE money because of delivering in one trip, so it didn't really bother me. That's terrible if Instacart pays by the batch! The only problem I've had with it is that people mix up the orders sometimes, and leave me something I didn't order (a freebie for me), or take something I ordered to somebody else. (I still get a refund.) Even though it might be less driving than doing each trip separately, it's still MORE driving than making one delivery - and that's the shopper's time and money. Hope you find something better.
All depends on the shopper. I have been shopping for Instacart for almost two years. Like you said, my principle is to make not less than $20/hr. So, I choose my orders in such a way that I always get that. Up until February this year, I was making $2k/m easily. Even now, with items out of stock and inflation, I am able to make $1,200 working just 30/hrs. So, it all depends on you the shopper.
can you tell me tips on how to get $20/hr? i applied recently
@@lyssa3903 Hi, it all depends on how well you know the shops, how fast you can shop, and the orders you pick. I will pick a $15 order is I can shop in 10mins, and deliver in 5mins. That’s $15 in 30mins. If I get another $15 which I can do in 30mins, which is always likely, that’s $30/hr. But I am very strategic. If it doesn’t fit my criteria, I wouldn’t pick it.
That’s a great strategy in theory, but almost no delivery will be 5 mins and in order to complete the shopping in 10 mins, every single item must be in stock or pre approved with a substitution that is in stock…which almost never happens. I expect to waste 30 mins up to an hour on every shop and basically look for the lowest mileage orders.
@@georgiegunn9577 I used to shop in an affluent neighborhood in Chicago. I only did three shops. I didn’t travel more than 20mins for delivery. There where many times I could walk from the shops to deliver to customers. Sometimes people will buy two or three items. I knew the shops inside out I could give you the maps in my sleep.
The percentage tip that adjusts really kills it for me. Got an order that only looked worth it because they had ordered several cases of baby formula. And yeah the shelves looked exactly like you'd imagine. It was $80 worth of baby formula they had ordered too, so not only did my pay get cut to less than half of what I had accepted but I also had to deal with the run around with the customer. No thank you.
That baby baby formulas shortage was no joke but instacart should of put out an email saying most stores were out. The app says things are in stock and their not at all and you have zero replacements
instacart is better for mileage and in general imo, considering how gas prices will continue to surge. i just do DD as a backup and nonchalantly on my way to/from destinations i was already planning on going to.
I find shopping orders too stressfull, unless they are just a few items. You have to be very careful on Walmart Spark. Sometimes they'll send you a shopping order. It does say "shopping" but I'm always looking at the dollars and miles amount first. Accidentally took one Sunday afternoon. They were VERY busy. Not fun! I did make $30 in an hour. But not sure it was worth the stress. Don't trust the time they say it will take!
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙...
I don't totally disagree with you. My wife and I both do Shipt. She did shopping orders (because she loves shopping) and I did delivery-only orders for the most part. I had two reasons for that. 1) I like the simplicity of it... 2) The Shipt rating system is brutally unfair. My wife got a three-star rating out of the blue. No reason given, but there it was! Suddenly she wasn't getting ANY orders sent to her. None. They go to shippers with higher ratings. She applied for "rating forgiveness" and the agent on the phone assured her it would be "forgiven" and she'd be fine. Well, it wasn't taken care of at all. So I stuck to delivery-only because you cannot be rated at all on those orders. If I did a shop order and a customer mistakenly gave me a four-star rating because the store was out of 20% of their items (it happens) then neither of us would be getting any orders. That said, my wife clawed her way up to a five-star rating and started getting orders again. She took three orders one day after her regular job and made just shy of $150 in 3 1/2 hours total. The issue in our market is that the orders are not coming in consistently, as well as the rating system that shuts you down for anything other than a five-star. That three-star cost us thousands of dollars and it took three months to get her rating back up. This despite her doing NOTHING wrong but the customer was rating their "Shipt experience" and didn't realize they were rating her and basically ruining our lives.
Shipt to me is not true gig work. It only works amazing for me because of the relationships I’ve built with members. I shop for the same people every week. Many text me ahead of time. You have to treat it different than gig work.
Also, In my area they don’t pay for the full miles just the store to their house and that’s not ok! It was fixed but it’s back to it. So I agree. I hope it gets better.
That’s why I do stores near my home
I agree 100% thats why i never did them... there are enough snags with just pickup and drop offs...
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
I do shipt and I make nearly $1000 a week working 4 days a week. I work about 6-7 hours. It’s only annoying when the customer doesn’t reply back as fast you would want. And yea the shopping is sometimes annoying. Good side hustle though.
What days and hours you work?
Bank robbery is supposed to be a good side hustle
I haven't taken an instacart in a year and I never took shipt because I never saw a worthy offer. However, I love the DD shopping orders. I get a lot of good offers, I never spend more than 20 minutes in the store and I like not having to wait around for a delivery. Always have to check the items first though. I've seen 10 case of water orders. Those aren't for me lol
Recommend using Para so that you can see the items before you accept it
Shipt recently hired a new CEO and a video was posted of him shopping one order and said "this is hard" he has no ideal make tips mandatory already!!!!!!
If your waiting longer than 5 to ten minutes simply explain to the customer, (if they don’t reply) (refund) Also, I’ve heard for replacing items. Ex) someone may need sugar free but they replace something with sugar in it and not the supplement, don’t do that. Something I thought as common sense but at a young age I might not of thought about that. Just a tip
I use them as my back up for flexibility when door dash, etc isn't busy. I will say I've gotten pretty lucky in general, especially when it comes to using the promotion as back up if an order doesn't tip. My market works nicely in the summer as well when everyone comes for vacation (beach)
I was making almost $60/hr in the fall with Instacart in Los Angeles. It was crazy. When March hit the orders cut in half. Now it's getting worse. I'm gonna wait it out through the summer and see what happens. Oversaturated and new shoppers given priority. Very tough out there right now.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM🆙..
Yup. Boost and surge is all gone. No promos anymore.
So far my limit is 20 ish items in total. Has to be a store I know. (Albertsons, Kroger, Aldi, small scale stores) has to be close to my location and a reasonable drive back to my starting location or where I’m going. Plus the $ to miles ratio. Plus my goal is less then 30 total minutes. I don’t do it very often, mainly in the morning and if I am slow in the food delivery apps.
Accidentally took a 50 item order and was in a unfamiliar store. I don’t do cancellations very often, but I will say. That was when it hit me that it was not worth the time or effort when I’m not the one that’s shopping for myself.
Funny you dropped this video. I did my first ever Cornershop order due to Uber eats backstabbing us bike riders and changing the alogorithm in Toronto to favour cars over us; I did the Cornershop order and it wasn’t worth the pay. It was a painfully long 45 min procedure and not worth $11.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
after all that work then you have to deliver it as well it doesn't make sense to me! I think it should be minimal 50 an order
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
So true, I can't justify taking a Shipt/instacart runs....the pay per time/miles makes no sense.
Unfortunately, Spark is now added to the bunch...sucks in some areas
I live right in front of a Publix and I only do close orders from that store to my surrounding neighborhoods, I easily average 25-30 an hour. any gig app depends on the area where you are. My advice is to pick a single store to learn, choose the smallest orders, pick orders w/ the least amount of produce, and stay within 5 miles.
I've had some AWESOME days with Instacart/Shipt and I've had CRAPPY days. I've made $400 in a week for 20 hours of work, and I've made only $200 for more. I always make my goal $50-$75 a day and if it's a day that's like popping, I'll aim for $100.
I like the lighting you have in your apartment. Very soothing very comforting.
My biggest problem with instacart is it seems like they make the base pay more when you drive farther from the store as opposed to the items we shop. I see offers all day saying 45 items 3 miles and 16 bucks, 7 dollar base and 9 dollar tip. But then I get stuff for 17miles 2 items and the base it significantly more. It's the one app where I care more about the in-store work compared to the driving. Just weird that they don't pay more for larger item counts.
All it took me was doing one instacart to figure out how much money I was losing doing that rather than multiapping doing DD, GH and UE
I haven't done Instacart or Shipt myself, but I have done "Shop and Pay" orders with Uber Eats, and for the three times I've done them, my experience has been terrible. I've also had at least one item not be in stock and then I had to text the customer and then wait for a reply. The replies do come quickly but it's still a time consuming matter of back and forth, and even when I do get all the rest of the order done, I end up with LESS than what I am expected. The last order i did the customer, despite being thankful for all I did, decided to cut my tip with no explanation. Could be a sign of tip baiting but I can't be certain on that. In the end that order only made me about $12 for one hour of work. I'll just stick with food delivery on UE which has made me significantly more per hour and per mile, and leave the "Shop and Pay" orders to someone else.
I am halfway through your video and I must say I totally agree. It would be all well and good if the store had maybe 97% of items, but they do not. I spend so much time chatting with customers to make sure they are happy and have a good experience. Instacart could give a phuk.. This whole time the timer is running out, lol. So to provide great customer service makes you into a slow shopper? And get this my rating is 4.69. Support has no real power, The real power is hidden behind a curtain like in The Wizard of OZ, "trust and safety team" who will never get back to you, no matter how much support tells you that "they will contact you". Sorry if I rambled, but I just want it known that I put my customers first, even if instacart does not!
Just did instacart and I hated it. The app told me all the wrong location for the item, I had to go look for it, it took FOREVER and on top of that the credit card they gave me did not pull up correctly to pay for the groceries and there's a long line behind me
Been doing shipt for almost 2 yrs. Full time the last 8 months. I have been making 200 a day doing 10 to 12 orders 8 am to 5pm
I completely agree. I’ve done several instacart orders, and along with unpredictable mileage, the app and payment system is too complex. The best orders are large, and include 2 or three customers, and many times a standard shopping cart isn’t big enough. Trying to communicate substitutes with multiple customers is too much headache. It’s not worth the money in my opinion
You are so right !! Instacart are ripping there employees off.
I don't check with the customers on every little thing typically the Apple at them know if I made a replacement and if they don't want it they message me back and tell me they don't want it
It will be fine if you didn't have to do substitutions if an item is out it's just out move on to the next one
I'll pickup a shop and pay order every now and then on Uber/Doordash, IF the # of items appear OK and it's a store I know likely has stock. Sometimes you just need a change of scenery and it's not always about the money. Had a Walgreens today that was 4 items $11.19, 5.9 miles, took me about 5 minutes in the store...not the best but like I said I just wanted a change of scenery.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
In my market(Chicago Western burbs) I did 10 trips for Shipt last week full shopping. Did $17.28/hr from time leaving my house to return. However, did $2.46/mi
My per hour increased the last 5 deliveries as I got use to the app/store/checkout process.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙...
Being a shopper is definitely not for everyone it's really something you should do only if you want to really do it which most people don't they just only want to do it because they are trying to make money
On top of the out of stock delays, customers still have the audacity to ask for additions 🤯.
You sound like you’re outta breath, Mike. Thanks for another awesome informative video. I’ve been considering doing all these side “gigs” but they just don’t seem cost effective. I worked doing the Bird Scooter thing; spent probably a good 12 hours just to barely make my money back.
What would you recommend getting into?
I have done 3 Shipt orders and they do not pay enough for my time and mileage. Doing those 3 deliveries only one person tipped me because I got caught in a down pour and the streets started flooding and that order only paid $9 with a $7 tip after getting soaked in the rain. One of the other 2 customers who did'nt tip tried to make me their preferred shopper and of course I ddint except that. WHy would I want to be your preferred shopped if you cant even tip, made $9.00 for 1.5 hours of work. Im am not doing Shipt shopping anymore, Uber Eats pays more.
Worked Instacart for 8 hours today and made $212. That's not a side hustle that's a great JOB!!! And that's about the same every day. So. Do the math.
The worst part is when they're out of the last item on the list and the customer doesn't have any substitutions so you text him and wait five minutes for a reply while walking aimlessly around the store before checking out.
Just grab the best sub you can or refund with a message. You don't have time to wait. Time is money. I give them about a minute or two,then I'll decide for them.
@@MonteLeeMyPOV I do send a picture of items that are in the same section/similar products.
I want to do delivery while I find a good trucking job that fits my needs but I’m convinced that none of these apps are worth my time now 😭😭
people tend to tip more one shopping but with shipt its best to do two orders at a time when busy
Thanks for this info. I'm not going to waste my time with either of those gigs!
Spark has been good for me. I can choose pickup or shop and deliver. Shopping doesn't involve contacting the customer, there are about 3 substituted items to choose from and if not found you choose another option, or not found and move on. I average $143 per day if I accept 5 to 6 gigs a day, which I complete in 5 to 6 hours. I'm 3 miles from Walmart so I'm able to ride home after a drop-off and wait for another one. The key for me is to leave the car running if possible. I get quite a few shopping orders with less then 5 items, so I Lock the car and run in for 10 minutes. Don't turn the car off unless you're gonna be shopping for a long time
In my opinion, to do Instacart within a reasonable time you need two people working together. Sometimes the store is out of several things and that eats more time. Not worth it otherwise.
It’s usually not that bad with Instacart, if something does come up it would be faster to call then texting them waiting for reply’s. If you know the stores and get use to the layouts then it’s really easy. And the fact that it shows you how many items, pictures of the items and if it’s at a apartment or not you can literally just picked out the orders you like. Like when a Costco 1 item for $35 pops up you won’t believe it
I couldn’t agree with you more o hated grocery delivery. I tried getting back into it and the pay is awful now and when it looks decent they want you to do 2 or 3 batch orders. Or one large ores with over 130+ items. Totally not worth the hassle.
Yea bro its terrible here in chicago. I shop south side. Half the products are ALWAYS out of stock. Results in lots of lost time, and angry customers that dont tip because the order was half out
I just signed up for Shipt. Been doing door dash Uber eats and grub hub all at once for a year and a half. I hear Shipt gets great tips. Less driving too?
The process for replacements is a pain. It been around long enough that a lot of people have replacements pre selected. The base pay is $7 and someone leaves a $10 and they think that is good. Then selects 60 items thats 2 hours in store, 60 minutes if everything is there and easily found with no snags. Plus drive time and wear and tear. Most people would assume $10 is good because they think our base pay is more. It’s not it $7 no matter what and yes some times they add heavy pay and will boost it if it sits a long time. Even then the base pay is never more than $15-20. That’s only if the delivery is really far away.
In my market it seems like most of them are over 8 miles away. I don’t understand because there are always stores that are closer. The same store. So $17 for 2-3 hours nope. Even 10 items takes an hour. With drive time and time in store.
I will leave instacart sitting in the background while doing other apps. Only take the ones that pay properly. Low item orders need to pay $26+ because I know I can bang em out in an hour even with snags. Sometimes there will be a large orders that tip properly. Depending on size $60-100 and I will take 2-3 hours and not be upset. Those orders go quick so I’ll take it without looking too close if the numbers add up. Except my multi apping ability is taken away when stuck in the store. The pay is good so shut the others off and bang it out.
I did an order the other day and made $175. It was 3.5 hours in store with 4 shopping carts full. Plus a break to run next door to Home Depot to buy a battery pack. To keep my phone charged an accessory needed for instacart.
Its worth keeping it running as a back up. To wait for good orders or low item orders with a decent tip. That are going in the direction you’re already going.
I recently signed up for Shipt. I ran it in the background for about a week. I didn’t find one single order that was worth taking. So I stopped turning it on plus my phone started to seriously lag with Shipt running. The problem seemed to go away when I stopped using it. Although I do have 9 active apps. I only seem to have the problem when I run Shipt.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..
I worked Instacart in 2020 when I was partially laid off due tot the pandemic to supplement my income and it was really busy back then but now it's awful!! Now with the app changes and low batch rate(and I live in a really busy area) it's not worth my time.
Whatabout when the customer doesnt reply about a missing item until after you get to checkout
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM🆙..
It seems like Shipt steals tips
So does favor delivery. I did 15 back to back deliveries & not one customer tipped me 🤔 very suspicious
Interesting point. I just thought why not shop & drive but shopping sounds like a headache when out of stock happens. Thnx Mikey
YES! Ty I had Q 675 dollar order today, the snags you call it were outrageous all that for an order that said prepaid but once I got to check out said the payment was declined! So I made 21 dollars for 3 hours of my time and was so upset. I’m in college and is just another way during down time.
My children’s account is under my info swear I’m 33 haha
I have done shops where so much wasn't available I just canceled the order because it's a waste of time because your pay decreases when you are not getting everything on their list
Hey... Ur thumbnail did catch my eye.. thanks so much for doing this vid.. I was very curious wtheck "SHIPT" was. I never did Instacart, so definitely needed to see what a person’s perspective was on them and pretty much answered what I dread to face. I am a PT shopper for Whole Foods already.. I shop at 1 store and I love it.. last thing I need is more confusion with Instacart & SHIPT. I do, however, deliver UberEats and do get Walgreens, Riteaid or CVS shop orders sometimes.. it can definitely be lil annoying since I don't shop there and their stores are definitely different layout in each different one I go to for shop order....🙄😩
I do Shipt and only do the Delivery Only orders, I love it!
I normally try to do the guarantees that are reasonable, like last Sunday I did a promo for 98 dollars guaranteed for 6 batches. Now instacart will throw promos like 48 dollars or 66 dollars for 6 batches completed. I'll ignore those unless it's something more reasonable like 3 or batches for those numbers guaranteed. I've been all over the DMV in the past (never again lol) doing instacart and now instead, I try to stay in a market and do orders there for the day.
My market so busy they give 20$ for 5 trips often, but rarely over 50$ bonus incentive
You have one of the best mics! Appreciate your help. I was thinking about doing this. Uber Eats is better for me.
Shipt is terrible. It’s insulting what they pay.
Gig work wasn't available in my area until 2018
Hi Mike!
Hope you're doing well!🎉❤
Great annalysis and value on IC n Shipt!🎉❤ Excellent tips on cons of shopping orders, etc!🎉❤ Stay safe and hope all your shifts are prosperous!🎉❤
Location is key, I averaged between $30-$60 an hour with instacart
Blessed to live across from Costco and do 5 40$ trips a day lol
If you have shipt preffered members, that tip well, its worth it, you need to do hundereds of orders to get prefered members ive done 180 and have 15 PM's all tip decent.
🆙📲⬆️you can drop a DM for something new🆙..