I’m curious about your Instacart order. I do delivery for them and we have a forum that we all chat on to share issues, questions, etc. Of course there are a ton of orders right now, way more than normal. However IC shoppers generally tend to avoid those that have a small tip (5%)/ no tip unless it states in the note cash tip upon delivery. There are a lot who have big orders (75 items) and tip $2. Those are usually skipped because the IC pay is low enough as it is, it’s the tips that make an order worth it. Also if your order had a lot of loose produce to pick or other items (toilet paper, wipes, etc) that are unavailable usually get skipped because we have to refund those items and that usually lowers what we get paid. Also a lot of people are tip baiting, they put in IC that they are tipping $75 and after delivery go in and change it to $10. They know the $75 tip will get it picked up by a driver and then screw them later. It’s been crazy for us.
How is that allowed!? I guess they have to let you change the tip just in case the driver, like, spits in your face when they deliver your stuff, but geez.
Customers have up to 3 days to adjust the tip. Most don’t but the really savvy ones will work the system.
Obtaining groceries/food of any kind is getting my blood pressure up. We're being told to avoid grocery stores, but then there's got to be a more efficient other way. I literally can't get half the products I need when placing an order for pickup. Instacart has failed me twice (not even processed my order) and now I'm trying to order for pickup directly through Wegmans and I cannot get a time slot. WTF are people supposed to do? This is compounding the anxiety I'm already experiencing. How are people getting this stuff before it goes out of stock? How are they getting a time slot? Are they getting up at 2:00am and doing it then?
I’m curious about your Instacart order. I do delivery for them and we have a forum that we all chat on to share issues, questions, etc. Of course there are a ton of orders right now, way more than normal. However IC shoppers generally tend to avoid those that have a small tip (5%)/ no tip unless it states in the note cash tip upon delivery. There are a lot who have big orders (75 items) and tip $2. Those are usually skipped because the IC pay is low enough as it is, it’s the tips that make an order worth it. Also if your order had a lot of loose produce to pick or other items (toilet paper, wipes, etc) that are unavailable usually get skipped because we have to refund those items and that usually lowers what we get paid. Also a lot of people are tip baiting, they put in IC that they are tipping $75 and after delivery go in and change it to $10. They know the $75 tip will get it picked up by a driver and then screw them later. It’s been crazy for us.
None of that applies in my case. I was also an instacart customer prior to the pandemic. We placed one order, got an email confirmation, and when my H went to pick it up there was so record of our order. That was a couple weeks ago. The second time we got up to the hour before pickup and there was no indication that our order had been shopped so we cancelled. I certainly sympathize with shoppers. It’s a stressful situation.
We’ve had better luck with our local Harris Teeter and using their pickup service. It’s a week out and we probably won’t get half of what we asked for but we’ve got to try.
I'll admit that we haven't really struggled to get what we need. We've been going to the grocery store once per week. This week it was twice because H went to Costco also, but we should be good on Costco for around a month now. They didn't have baby wipes, but that's really it and I can order some online. Maybe because we're not super picky it's been a bit easier? Costco was out of ground turkey so we got ground beef instead. The regular chicken we buy was out so we bought some chicken tenderloin things instead. It's been fine.
A lot of this is likely regional. We're outside DC.
We're saving the instacart type services for those who really need them and taking as many precautions as we can otherwise. I do think people who use these services are going to feel like the shelves are more bare than they are because they aren't there to see the other options for themselves. Like my H could easily just grab the ground beef when the turkey was gone, but a grocery delivery service might just cancel the item completely.
Same here. I'm outside of DC as well and still going to the stores. I haven't had many problems finding what we need. It may not be the exact brand or flavor we want but I can always find an alternative. I have been going to smaller family owned grocery stores/butchers for meats and they have had been fully stocked.
The only thing I cannot find is Lysol type wipes. We don't need them immediately so I'm not going to stand in line before a store opens to find them but that has been one thing I can never find.