Please do not work for instacart - Full Service Shopper Instacart Employee Review

1.0
27 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The true is if you need to make some money while you find a real job this is the opportunity but you will lose more than your earn in miles gas and time

Cons

They had made a lot of change a shopper can earn between $5 to $6 hourly. This job its for a person that can find nothing else they start paying as much $30 hr and now you are losing money you will have to go with big boxes to apartments just for $5dls or even less $1.30 if you are delivery only. They are changing shopper like weekly every person than used to work for them just work like 1 week. Every week it's like the company as just start because the changes no body there as more than 1 week worker.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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

Cons

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

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