Thank you so much for this video. I am brand new to instacart, I haven't even done my first order yet and this video answered every question I had about how it works. If instacart sees this video they should strongly consider adding it to their training list for new shoppers.
Thank you for making this video. I am getting started with Instacart. Am a little bit nervous about making mistakes. I did Doordash for two years. Wanted to give Instacart a try. I like the way you explain the whole process. Took the stress out of figuring things out. Thank you again for the content. Keep up the good work!
As an Instacart shopper myself, I call bs on the $45/hour. I hate all the false info TH-cam videos that are clickbait, lying to you, and are only trying to get views to make money from being TH-cam monitized.
I like how Publix has the deli meat ready for you, I haven’t seen other stores do that. It takes time to wait for them and have them cut/package it for you on the spot.
I did it for the first time yesterday. I did two orders. I felt slow but I was getting to know the app. I'll do it again but I did not make much money at all. Thank you for the part where you said we can wait and not accept it and the pay will raise.
Walmart spark gives you the aisle and section of each item. Makes it WAAAY simpler. I’m thinking about adding instacart to my apps. Thanks for an informative video.
Wow, I do IC outside of Tampa and rarely ever see orders above $50 unless they are huge Costco orders, you’re very fortunate. An amazing day for me is $100 for 6-8 hours. I have a special needs child, so this works perfectly me and my schedule. My best tip is use the freezer packs that come with meal delivery orders. I use a hard cooler and some soft sided cooler bags, those freezer packs stay cold all day in the Florida heat.
I enjoy shopping for myself so I’d probably never take advantage of a service such a this but it was interesting to hear how it works. Thanks for sharing.
I started IC in Tampa area/Pinellas county. Rarely saw batches over 20 some dollars. It would take me 8-10 hours a day, 8 days a week to make $400 to $600. And I was Diamond level and getting priority access to orders. It is much better to accept smaller orders with least amount of distance. You can get more done and tend make more money. I only ever had a day over $100 maybe once a week and that was usually on a Sunday and I’d be out there for 10 hours…..working nonstop, no breaks. I had $150 day once and that was Thanksgiving week.
Yeah it’s like any other gig delivery Duh Or everyone would switch I’m in Clearwater Dunedin n do DoorDash It averages $10-12 an hr n YOU ARE KILLING UR CARS, ppl
I wish you had showed me how you kept the items separate for customers A, B, C. I also wanted to see how you kept the cold items cold and the hot items hot. You also didn't mention about buying bags. Do customers appreciate it if I use my own bags to save them money? I bought 4 of the approved bags for $30. I also signed up for large orders like a large heavy box that will fit in my hatchback. If you must leave the things at the door, I would think you would want to make sure you got pictures of all the items. If someone stole some items, you could prove that they were in the bags with the pictures. Just showing the bags in the picture won't prove that you delivered all of the items.
I use to make $200 easily in 6 hour shifts on Saturdays and Sundays last year. The highest I made this year was Easter, $81 in 8 hours. That’s way less than minimum wage. Take advantage if your city doesn’t have too many drivers yet, lots of ppl are going to lose their jobs in the next 5 years- lots of careers will end, unfortunately. Where do you think all those unfortunate people will turn too for work? Instacart, Uber, DoorDash, etc. Then your cities will be just like Los Angeles- where you’ll get 1 order every few hours
I do IC in Pittsburgh. I have never seen a shop only. Micheals is the only store you can go to and not have to shop. Lowes is the only store where the items on the app shows which aisle its in. So if you are unfamiliar with the store, you have to go up and down each aisle to find items. And you have to stand in the deli line to place your order just like anyone else. Really slows you down. Lucky you get an aisle list and presliced deli. Never have been tipped over $20 for a run. The average here is like $6. I worked 7.5 hrs on Friday and my tips were still under $70. Doing runs in a rich community must really help.
raising wildflowers, regarding your 11:30 the faster you are remark. I've been instacarting since '19 and I can honestly tell that shopping within the allowed time frame and beating that clock does absolutely nothing to your batches
Hello!, thanks for the tips, I have a quick question? for that day did you just receive only those 4 orders that was worth taking? How many batches do you typically get a day that are decent enough to take?
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Hello! I read other comments here and the items are scanned again at checkout. It was suggested to do self checkout so you can make sure the items are bagged accurately when you are shopping for more than one customer. To answer your other question, I have seen a different TH-cam video and he never bags the items until checkout.
I wish I could have seen the checkout of the first batch. I shopped for two people for the first time and tried to pay separately. I didn’t know you have to pay for all of the items at once
Oh for the love of god I hope you don’t try to ring up everything at once LOL. That would be a nightmare. The card would get declined and then you’d have to separate the items, and by this time you have likely gotten multiple orders mixed amongst one another. This would not only piss off the employee responsible for ringing you out. But then piss your customer off and yourself for the additional 30 minutes your about to spend at the register sorting through the orders item by item so that you can ring out properly lol. One order by one. Thats how you get it done.
You can work as much or as little as you want. You don't even need to schedule a time to work, you just log onto the app whenever you want. I did not shop at all for several weeks recently because I had a baby. I usually work 5-6 days a week, but only a couple hours a day. I am able to get orders from my house, so sometimes in the evenings I will keep the app open to see if something good pops up :)
@@2strive405 I think she means that while she's at home, her App is open so that if something juicy comes through she can decide whether to take it or not.
Thank you for sharing this! Would love your 2cents on a situation I just had happen. When working a large order for 3 I had a cashier combine my second and third order after failing to scan the barcode correctly. She was inexperienced and sent me over to customer service to have them correct everything. My first orders had already been paid for she decided to refund everything before rechecking my order. When we got to the payment method for the second time my payments were declined. Instacart support kept me on the line for almost an hour before eventually canceling the batch on me because I refused to pay out of pocket then request a reimbursement from them. That put me out nearly 2 hours with nothing to show for it. I'd love to know your experience when working with support. or best practices to watch for with new cashiers. Thanks
Don't use cashiers, utilize the self checkout. There is large chance cashiers and baggers can fck your order up w/how stupidly they pack the order and w/this mistake here you mentioned. Minimize that chance as much as possible by using self checkout if available. I only use cashiers if im exhausted
As the average cost to operate a vehicle is currently $.58/mile some people are not taking this into account and often time actually loosing money by accepting low paying and long distance batches. It appears that the potential to actually make money as a shopper in 2023 is diminishing. As an example, $20.00 batch, 10 miles away= 20 mile round trip = $11.60. Yes your cost to actually drive your gas powered vehicle. Now there is actually $8.40 left. Next time you accept a batch do the math. Many newbees are accepting low paying batches, which tells the company it's ok to put low paying batches out there. They are targeting the newbees and ruining the potential for everyone.
Not only that, Instacart is now routinely grouping 3 orders in one batch and still paying ridiculous amounts for the order. I never take 3 order batches myself (I respect others that choose to do so) but you made an excellent point about the newbies ruining it for everyone else. I've seen 3 order batches being separated into 2 (and even single orders) if no one takes them within a period of time. They do prey on new people who think they have to take the first batch that comes up. With time, I have become very selective on the batches I take. Just take your time and don't get too anxious. Sometimes it's better to wait a little longer than taking a 3-order for $ 20 that would take a lot of your time and effort.
So I just started instacart and the issue im having is, it doesn’t show me the full mileage to go to the supermarket and then to the persons home . Like for example the other day I had a $20 delivery for 2 stops, and the supermarket was 30 mins away ! And they the two persons homes were about 10-15 mins away from the supermarket and one of them didn’t even leave a tip! And they were both large orders. I was SOOOO pissed off. A complete waste of gas money
In California it always averages out to $25 an hour but only the hours work not including what times. If you include the whole time you shop and wait then the hourly rate averages at $20. They have this down to a science now. From that you still have to pay your own taxes, gas, and have no unemployment insurance or benefits. That’s a side hustle 😂
This is a very comprehensive video, thank you. I still have questions though. How does Instacart make their money if the shoppers gets paid for the order (plus tips). If the order if $60 say, and the shopper is paid $60 dollars, how does that work? Where is their profit? What about bags? With no more plastic bags available, how are the groceries packaged? And the insulated cold bags, do they get left at the customer's residence? Is mileage covered by Instacart? I'm looking into doing this myself (I live in Canada), but can't find videos that explain how this works. TIA :)
In my area, the customer gets charged $10 flat rate. The shopper gets paid $7 (plus any tip the customer adds). So, there is $3.00 right off the top. Then if you accept a second order to shop along with your original order (i.e. a double order) Instacart does not pay you an additional $7, just any tip that the customer offered (although, the customer definitely paid that $10 flat fee). So, there is another $10. That is just the shopping fee. On top of that, they add a little extra to the price of each item. It has been a while since I did Instacart, so things may have changed since then. But that's what it was when I was doing it last.
looking instacart to see if it would work for me, realistically, as a way to make some extra cash... do you have special car insurance, and/or a business license/LLC?
I was listening to another video of yours while doing instacart and then suddenly this appears as I enter another store. How nice! I live near so I tend to return home, but there are times I do wait.
She isn’t making 45 an hour and number one it’s 160 in 4 active hours that would be $40 an hour . You don’t calculate your day by your hourly active hours. She probably was out for eight hours.
Can you customize your isles that you like to shop first on the list when you shop? first start at Produce, deli, dry, drinks, frozen last? I feel a lot of scrolling up and down would be annoying...
Damn, I've been doing IC right up the road from you in St. Agustine and the most I've seen come in for 1 customer is 30.00. She had only 7 items and just left a decent tip. But getting 60 bucks for a batch is insane. I haven't seen one of those since the start of the pandemic.
That's darn right me neither and they only paid good then because of the pandemic and shoppers were needed everywhere which is when they hired too many so now we get low paying orders. Everytime I see another shopper I ask them what they get per batch and it's always way higher and everyone be at 5.00 rating and mine is at 4.7 like all the time and I haven't changed nothing about how I do an order. It makes no sense at allllllll
Is that how people complete the 2 or 3 people order, they shop and then drop off and go back to the store... I was just gonna shop and then leave it in the car and shop again..
I really appreciate your video! Very detailed and exactly what I was looking for. My only question though, did you use cold bags for the frozen items and do you tell the cashier what you want in what bags? One last question, what did you scan the QR code for at the register? Thank you.
Hey Tony, I hate to just jump in here like this but just wanted to help out a little. To answer your questions, the QR code is required at some stores. It's like a membership/savings account for the customer. Its already setup for the customer so when you go to check out it might say scan code after 1st item. Also not sure how it works in other places but generally you don't have a say so on what goes in what bag. Now once you get familiar with a store and the cashiers you might build a bond where they allow you to have say so. It's good to use cooler bags. I'm not going to say it's a necessity.
@@porshab7320 Hey thanks for jumping in and explaining! I guess the bagging part was a silly question lol. I haven't gotten any cold/hot bags yet, but I guess I could arrange them myself once done with check-out. Thank you so much for explaining!
@@porshab7320 Hate to bother you again with another question. I accepted an order not realizing that it was 2 customers orders at the same time and it was like 45 items total. I was thinking how in the heck am I going to keep those orders separate in a shopping cart! On top of that, it said that 1 of the customers didn't order through Instacart so I had to go through a different process for them to pay. It only being like my 5th order ever, I freaked out and cancelled it :(. Any suggestions on doing double orders and how someone not ordering through Instacart works. Thanks!
Ok so as far as keeping orders separate. For me it depends on the size of the order. I try not to do too many 3 orders batches. But for a 2 order what I do is use the top portion as Customer A and the larger bottom of cart for Customer B. Let's say each customer has 20 items a piece. I'll grab one of those hand baskets. Have the top and hand basket be 1. Then the rest for the other customer. But I promise once you get going you will find you a routine. Try to stick to stores you know. That helps.
Your first order was at 7:05 am last at 5 . That is 10 hours. You are at $16 an hour honey. Even if you took two hours off, you are at $20 an hour not 45. I know math is hard.
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Theres no way to make $45/hr unless youre in a major metropolitan area. Been working instacart for 8 weeks, i'm diamond cart, 4.98 star rated shopper...i make $20/hr most days.
Quick tip to save time,just don't even weigh produce and just put down what it says they want on the app because nobody pays attention to that and most of the time it's going to be pretty much accurate anyways,huge time saver!
As someone that uses Instacart from time to time, I ABSOLUTELY pay attention to the weight. I have a food scale at home and you better believe I use it. Even if you're just a little bit off you're still either cheating the customer or the store. Not good advise to give anyone especially if they are new to this as you could potentially get them banned from being a shopper. I'm very glad I've never had a shopper that thinks like you.
Some stores have eliminated scales at the produce section. Its only at checkout can i see the weight, then i readjust accordingly. The other day i had to take out a bunch of grapes from a 1lb grape order. The store hopes you dont care to know the weight
I just joined 2day..I started today and I was using the Google Pay..my card was shipped 2 me a couple of hrs. So instead of me waiting on the physical card..I downloaded Google pay app n attached the digital card they gave me ..
My application took less than a week to be approved and the card was mailed out as soon as I was approved. You can begin shopping at certain stores right away with ApplePay while you are waiting on your physical card to arrive :)
Hi I signed up using your referral code hope you appreciate your bonus…… p.s. this shit is hard especially shopping at different culture food places that don’t speak English…… Bart from Portland Oregon 😃
Hey kettie, I am from instacart shopper support. And I am new to this job. Can you please explain me what kind of issues instacart shoppers facing all the time so that I can quickly give the resolution to the shopper.i literally want to help shoppers
Hope you are doing well. I was just searching the instacart videos on youtube so that I can learn about the situations of the shoppers. So I found you here so I just text you😊
thanks - very informative. i calculate time diff. waiting to me matters. it seems the food apps have found a way to pay minimum wage. $15p/hr is what i get which includes your wait time, lunch & cash tip. the bonus is that your car doesn't move while you wait - except on return to the store.
I often get on the app and look at what area the boosts are in and peak times. I usually go down to Bloomington quite often bc of their 27 percent boosts. About a 40 minute drive, but it really is worth it. You'll make more than you spend on like gas and what not.
Bro I'm in the Fresno California area and I still can't get into Instacart. I applied 1 year ago and talked to a couple Reps this month and they say I just have to wait.
When I signed up a couple years ago, it was once you were approved to shop (background check complete, etc). We were able to use ApplePay right away, but did need to wait on the physical card to shop at certain stores. Hopefully someone who has signed up more recently can respond if anything has changed? And how long the cards are currently taking to arrive? I am curious as well. We did have plenty of time to complete the 30 batches - especially if you take really small orders that can be completed quickly.
@@raisingwildflowers I’m a new instacart shopper. A little insight on how long it takes to receive your physical card, for my card it was almost a month. You can shop without it using mobile pay but with restrictions on batches they will offer you. Wed. the 29th 2023 was my first day. I waited till I got physical card to start shopping/delivering orders. If you take the orders and you meet the deadlines more will be offered to you the next day. You’ll also get group batching where you can shop and deliver for multiple customers at the same time
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Thank you for the tip about weighing produce! That stuff makes me crazy with the time pressure.😊
How do you deal with transporting cold items? Do you have to buy cold bags to give to customers?
@@Divaemanuel I bought these bags to keep in my car: amzn.to/3XD7QBZ These work really well to keep items cold from the store to the customer.
Thank you so much for this video. I am brand new to instacart, I haven't even done my first order yet and this video answered every question I had about how it works. If instacart sees this video they should strongly consider adding it to their training list for new shoppers.
Thank you for making this video. I am getting started with Instacart. Am a little bit nervous about making mistakes. I did Doordash for two years. Wanted to give Instacart a try. I like the way you explain the whole process. Took the stress out of figuring things out. Thank you again for the content. Keep up the good work!
Make a custom greeting, and use it every time before you begin shopping. Next, shop like you're buying for yourself and you'll be fine.
Best advice I have seen so far! Thanks @@itzamia
Can you please send me the promo code again? I missed it
As an Instacart shopper myself, I call bs on the $45/hour. I hate all the false info TH-cam videos that are clickbait, lying to you, and are only trying to get views to make money from being TH-cam monitized.
I like how Publix has the deli meat ready for you, I haven’t seen other stores do that. It takes time to wait for them and have them cut/package it for you on the spot.
I did it for the first time yesterday. I did two orders. I felt slow but I was getting to know the app. I'll do it again but I did not make much money at all. Thank you for the part where you said we can wait and not accept it and the pay will raise.
Walmart spark gives you the aisle and section of each item. Makes it WAAAY simpler. I’m thinking about adding instacart to my apps. Thanks for an informative video.
Instacart does in some stores like Publix. The rest, gives you the section.
Wow, I do IC outside of Tampa and rarely ever see orders above $50 unless they are huge Costco orders, you’re very fortunate. An amazing day for me is $100 for 6-8 hours. I have a special needs child, so this works perfectly me and my schedule. My best tip is use the freezer packs that come with meal delivery orders. I use a hard cooler and some soft sided cooler bags, those freezer packs stay cold all day in the Florida heat.
I enjoy shopping for myself so I’d probably never take advantage of a service such a this but it was interesting to hear how it works. Thanks for sharing.
I never take double batches. It’s too confusing and takes too long when the stores are usually busy
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This video was super helpful and informative. I’m going to give this a try as a side hustle. So glad I found your channel! :)
I started IC in Tampa area/Pinellas county. Rarely saw batches over 20 some dollars. It would take me 8-10 hours a day, 8 days a week to make $400 to $600. And I was Diamond level and getting priority access to orders. It is much better to accept smaller orders with least amount of distance. You can get more done and tend make more money. I only ever had a day over $100 maybe once a week and that was usually on a Sunday and I’d be out there for 10 hours…..working nonstop, no breaks. I had $150 day once and that was Thanksgiving week.
Glad your week has a extra day..
Yeah it’s like any other gig delivery
Duh
Or everyone would switch
I’m in Clearwater Dunedin n do DoorDash
It averages $10-12 an hr n YOU ARE KILLING UR CARS, ppl
I get those all the time I found out it’s better to get 5-6.00 1-3 miles 30.00 an hour I’m learning quick
I've made over 1000$ in two weeks
I wish you had showed me how you kept the items separate for customers A, B, C. I also wanted to see how you kept the cold items cold and the hot items hot. You also didn't mention about buying bags. Do customers appreciate it if I use my own bags to save them money? I bought 4 of the approved bags for $30. I also signed up for large orders like a large heavy box that will fit in my hatchback. If you must leave the things at the door, I would think you would want to make sure you got pictures of all the items. If someone stole some items, you could prove that they were in the bags with the pictures. Just showing the bags in the picture won't prove that you delivered all of the items.
You put one in the top and the other two in the bottom and extra on the very bottom
You do order a first and before u bag it up slide and pay for 2nd order then bag both ordersand keep seperate in cart and in your car
This video was so helpful. I haven't done my 1st run yet and I'm so glad I didn't until I saw this video. Great job! Thanks.
Great video! I signed up about a week ago but got put on a waitlist. Hope I don't have to wait too long to get started.
Waiting list is the most rewarding part of this......
You still have high expectations 😂
Hey Katie!
Hope you're doing well!🎉❤ Great n helpful tips!🎉❤ Stay safe and may all your shifts be prosperous!🎉❤
I use to make $200 easily in 6 hour shifts on Saturdays and Sundays last year. The highest I made this year was Easter, $81 in 8 hours. That’s way less than minimum wage. Take advantage if your city doesn’t have too many drivers yet, lots of ppl are going to lose their jobs in the next 5 years- lots of careers will end, unfortunately. Where do you think all those unfortunate people will turn too for work? Instacart, Uber, DoorDash, etc. Then your cities will be just like Los Angeles- where you’ll get 1 order every few hours
best video on this topic I have seen so far! really helpful thank you.
Love this video! My husband & I just started with instacart & this was very helpful! 🥰
Glad it was helpful! Happy shopping :)
This is a lie u can sit there and ignore small orders and never get a high paying order. 99 percent of orders I see are under $20 everyday
If you're making $45/hr on IC why is that a side hustle? Lol
Cuz you can be making 45/hr one day then the next day 10/hr.
@@computerlearingchannel4257 you just cleared it up
They don't maken45 a hour I do instantcart
@@computerlearingchannel4257 I got the impression of averaging $45/hr. And the least I've ever made on IC in one day is $20/hr
@computerlearing channel I've heard mixed things about LA. Mostly oversaturation though. I average $30/hr
Thank you for this! I'm about to start delivering in Seminole County. I feel better after watching this.
Thanks! Just started this week & was a little frustrated. But knowing I can wait for better batches helps
What’s the deal with bags at checkouts with most places not supplying plastic bags at all or charging for bags how dose that all work…?
Thanks so much for the tips.Valuable info.im so new to instacart.thank you
I do IC in Pittsburgh. I have never seen a shop only.
Micheals is the only store you can go to and not have to shop.
Lowes is the only store where the items on the app shows which aisle its in. So if you are unfamiliar with the store, you have to go up and down each aisle to find items.
And you have to stand in the deli line to place your order just like anyone else. Really slows you down.
Lucky you get an aisle list and presliced deli.
Never have been tipped over $20 for a run. The average here is like $6. I worked 7.5 hrs on Friday and my tips were still under
$70. Doing runs in a rich community must really help.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing 👍
raising wildflowers, regarding your 11:30 the faster you are remark. I've been instacarting since '19 and I can honestly tell that shopping within the allowed time frame and beating that clock does absolutely nothing to your batches
This is absolutely correct. I now take my time and don't even look at the clock. Too stressful and unnecessary
Hello!, thanks for the tips, I have a quick question? for that day did you just receive only those 4 orders that was worth taking? How many batches do you typically get a day that are decent enough to take?
I've never seen batches paying those money. =[
Did I hear a baby in the background? Or am I hearing things???
It’s a voiceover so more than likely
I haven’t seen a single batch in the last 2 days here in Southern California. Anyone else having issues?
4 hours lunch? My type of job! In my region (Canada) it’s 40 batches in 30 days could be different there
This video was super helpful! I was nervous but I feel a little more comfortable now!
This was a great video! I have always wondered if this would be right for me. TY!
Thank you. I am thinking about doing this
Love the dreads
Hey girly!
Greeting from HTX 👋
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Thank you! 🥰
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Do you bag your groceries as you load the cart? Also do you have to rescan them at the check out of the store?
Hello! I read other comments here and the items are scanned again at checkout. It was suggested to do self checkout so you can make sure the items are bagged accurately when you are shopping for more than one customer. To answer your other question, I have seen a different TH-cam video and he never bags the items until checkout.
I really like how you explained instacart! Great job😊
I hope you didn't have to go upstairs with the water 😞💦
I wish I could have seen the checkout of the first batch. I shopped for two people for the first time and tried to pay separately. I didn’t know you have to pay for all of the items at once
You should need to pay for the orders separately. I will see if I can get a video together specifically on checking out :)
Yes please do a video separately how you pay for both of them
Oh for the love of god I hope you don’t try to ring up everything at once LOL. That would be a nightmare. The card would get declined and then you’d have to separate the items, and by this time you have likely gotten multiple orders mixed amongst one another. This would not only piss off the employee responsible for ringing you out. But then piss your customer off and yourself for the additional 30 minutes your about to spend at the register sorting through the orders item by item so that you can ring out properly lol. One order by one. Thats how you get it done.
How many days a week do you do this ? Is there a minimum amount of time you must be available ?
You can work as much or as little as you want. You don't even need to schedule a time to work, you just log onto the app whenever you want. I did not shop at all for several weeks recently because I had a baby. I usually work 5-6 days a week, but only a couple hours a day. I am able to get orders from my house, so sometimes in the evenings I will keep the app open to see if something good pops up :)
@@raisingwildflowers Thank you !!
What is ur goal monthly income with this side gig
@@raisingwildflowers what do you mean orders from your house?
@@2strive405 I think she means that while she's at home, her App is open so that if something juicy comes through she can decide whether to take it or not.
Thank you for sharing this! Would love your 2cents on a situation I just had happen.
When working a large order for 3 I had a cashier combine my second and third order after failing to scan the barcode correctly. She was inexperienced and sent me over to customer service to have them correct everything. My first orders had already been paid for she decided to refund everything before rechecking my order. When we got to the payment method for the second time my payments were declined. Instacart support kept me on the line for almost an hour before eventually canceling the batch on me because I refused to pay out of pocket then request a reimbursement from them. That put me out nearly 2 hours with nothing to show for it.
I'd love to know your experience when working with support. or best practices to watch for with new cashiers.
Thanks
omg that would be my worst nightmare, I would probably involuntarily start crying/faint.
Don't use cashiers, utilize the self checkout. There is large chance cashiers and baggers can fck your order up w/how stupidly they pack the order and w/this mistake here you mentioned. Minimize that chance as much as possible by using self checkout if available. I only use cashiers if im exhausted
just got off the waitlist, thanks for the info!
As the average cost to operate a vehicle is currently $.58/mile some people are not taking this into account and often time actually loosing money by accepting low paying and long distance batches. It appears that the potential to actually make money as a shopper in 2023 is diminishing. As an example, $20.00 batch, 10 miles away= 20 mile round trip = $11.60. Yes your cost to actually drive your gas powered vehicle. Now there is actually $8.40 left. Next time you accept a batch do the math. Many newbees are accepting low paying batches, which tells the company it's ok to put low paying batches out there. They are targeting the newbees and ruining the potential for everyone.
Excellent point!
Not only that, Instacart is now routinely grouping 3 orders in one batch and still paying ridiculous amounts for the order. I never take 3 order batches myself (I respect others that choose to do so) but you made an excellent point about the newbies ruining it for everyone else. I've seen 3 order batches being separated into 2 (and even single orders) if no one takes them within a period of time. They do prey on new people who think they have to take the first batch that comes up. With time, I have become very selective on the batches I take. Just take your time and don't get too anxious. Sometimes it's better to wait a little longer than taking a 3-order for $ 20 that would take a lot of your time and effort.
So I just started instacart and the issue im having is, it doesn’t show me the full mileage to go to the supermarket and then to the persons home . Like for example the other day I had a $20 delivery for 2 stops, and the supermarket was 30 mins away ! And they the two persons homes were about 10-15 mins away from the supermarket and one of them didn’t even leave a tip! And they were both large orders. I was SOOOO pissed off. A complete waste of gas money
In California it always averages out to $25 an hour but only the hours work not including what times. If you include the whole time you shop and wait then the hourly rate averages at $20. They have this down to a science now. From that you still have to pay your own taxes, gas, and have no unemployment insurance or benefits. That’s a side hustle 😂
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This is a very comprehensive video, thank you. I still have questions though. How does Instacart make their money if the shoppers gets paid for the order (plus tips). If the order if $60 say, and the shopper is paid $60 dollars, how does that work? Where is their profit? What about bags? With no more plastic bags available, how are the groceries packaged? And the insulated cold bags, do they get left at the customer's residence? Is mileage covered by Instacart? I'm looking into doing this myself (I live in Canada), but can't find videos that explain how this works. TIA :)
In my area, the customer gets charged $10 flat rate. The shopper gets paid $7 (plus any tip the customer adds). So, there is $3.00 right off the top. Then if you accept a second order to shop along with your original order (i.e. a double order) Instacart does not pay you an additional $7, just any tip that the customer offered (although, the customer definitely paid that $10 flat fee). So, there is another $10. That is just the shopping fee. On top of that, they add a little extra to the price of each item. It has been a while since I did Instacart, so things may have changed since then. But that's what it was when I was doing it last.
Plus I have to take heavy items/orders upstairs and it's absolutely not easy and the pay is never what we deserve to get
looking instacart to see if it would work for me, realistically, as a way to make some extra cash... do you have special car insurance, and/or a business license/LLC?
You.are insured by instacart while your working but are still required to have your own insurance or it won't work out
I was listening to another video of yours while doing instacart and then suddenly this appears as I enter another store. How nice! I live near so I tend to return home, but there are times I do wait.
Sit forget to subtract your gas money from your $45 amount 😊 but thank you for the info
I need help with my time , I am always take at least twice the time ,
I have a hard time with replacments and item not found
Super informative for newbies...thanks
very helpful
She isn’t making 45 an hour and number one it’s 160 in 4 active hours that would be $40 an hour . You don’t calculate your day by your hourly active hours. She probably was out for eight hours.
Can you customize your isles that you like to shop first on the list when you shop? first start at Produce, deli, dry, drinks, frozen last? I feel a lot of scrolling up and down would be annoying...
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing!
45?? False...!!!
Damn, I've been doing IC right up the road from you in St. Agustine and the most I've seen come in for 1 customer is 30.00. She had only 7 items and just left a decent tip. But getting 60 bucks for a batch is insane. I haven't seen one of those since the start of the pandemic.
That's darn right me neither and they only paid good then because of the pandemic and shoppers were needed everywhere which is when they hired too many so now we get low paying orders. Everytime I see another shopper I ask them what they get per batch and it's always way higher and everyone be at 5.00 rating and mine is at 4.7 like all the time and I haven't changed nothing about how I do an order. It makes no sense at allllllll
Is that how people complete the 2 or 3 people order, they shop and then drop off and go back to the store... I was just gonna shop and then leave it in the car and shop again..
If the store doesn't provide free bags do we have to buy ?
I really appreciate your video! Very detailed and exactly what I was looking for. My only question though, did you use cold bags for the frozen items and do you tell the cashier what you want in what bags? One last question, what did you scan the QR code for at the register? Thank you.
Hey Tony, I hate to just jump in here like this but just wanted to help out a little. To answer your questions, the QR code is required at some stores. It's like a membership/savings account for the customer. Its already setup for the customer so when you go to check out it might say scan code after 1st item. Also not sure how it works in other places but generally you don't have a say so on what goes in what bag. Now once you get familiar with a store and the cashiers you might build a bond where they allow you to have say so. It's good to use cooler bags. I'm not going to say it's a necessity.
@@porshab7320 Hey thanks for jumping in and explaining! I guess the bagging part was a silly question lol. I haven't gotten any cold/hot bags yet, but I guess I could arrange them myself once done with check-out. Thank you so much for explaining!
@@porshab7320 Hate to bother you again with another question. I accepted an order not realizing that it was 2 customers orders at the same time and it was like 45 items total. I was thinking how in the heck am I going to keep those orders separate in a shopping cart! On top of that, it said that 1 of the customers didn't order through Instacart so I had to go through a different process for them to pay. It only being like my 5th order ever, I freaked out and cancelled it :(. Any suggestions on doing double orders and how someone not ordering through Instacart works. Thanks!
Ok so as far as keeping orders separate. For me it depends on the size of the order. I try not to do too many 3 orders batches. But for a 2 order what I do is use the top portion as Customer A and the larger bottom of cart for Customer B. Let's say each customer has 20 items a piece. I'll grab one of those hand baskets. Have the top and hand basket be 1. Then the rest for the other customer. But I promise once you get going you will find you a routine. Try to stick to stores you know. That helps.
@@porshab7320 Wonderful advice. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the heads up pretty much like dashing. Great video very helpful thanks again.
Did you have to wait for insta cart to allow you into the bigger grocery stores like Aldi and public?
Your first order was at 7:05 am last at 5 . That is 10 hours. You are at $16 an hour honey. Even if you took two hours off, you are at $20 an hour not 45. I know math is hard.
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Great video.. thank you 😊
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Im going to start soon, questions areyou shopping all together or separately?
I shop them all together, but separate them in my buggy. I get store baskets to help keep everything organized. Happy shopping!
@@raisingwildflowers cool! Thanks
Theres no way to make $45/hr unless youre in a major metropolitan area. Been working instacart for 8 weeks, i'm diamond cart, 4.98 star rated shopper...i make $20/hr most days.
Quick tip to save time,just don't even weigh produce and just put down what it says they want on the app because nobody pays attention to that and most of the time it's going to be pretty much accurate anyways,huge time saver!
Lie to tour customers, that's your rip?
As someone that uses Instacart from time to time, I ABSOLUTELY pay attention to the weight. I have a food scale at home and you better believe I use it. Even if you're just a little bit off you're still either cheating the customer or the store. Not good advise to give anyone especially if they are new to this as you could potentially get them banned from being a shopper. I'm very glad I've never had a shopper that thinks like you.
Some stores have eliminated scales at the produce section. Its only at checkout can i see the weight, then i readjust accordingly. The other day i had to take out a bunch of grapes from a 1lb grape order. The store hopes you dont care to know the weight
I just applied and wondering if I have to wait for them to send me their card?
What is the waiting time for them to approve my application?
I just joined 2day..I started today and I was using the Google Pay..my card was shipped 2 me a couple of hrs. So instead of me waiting on the physical card..I downloaded Google pay app n attached the digital card they gave me ..
My application took less than a week to be approved and the card was mailed out as soon as I was approved. You can begin shopping at certain stores right away with ApplePay while you are waiting on your physical card to arrive :)
@Raising Wildflowers does Google pay also work for android?
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Ups drivers make 40+ $ an hour.
And they said you can make 100 k a year with door d.
Great tutorial! Thank you.
I'm new with instacart, can we pay for orders at self-checkout or do we have to go to a normal register?
Cool beans!
I’m from Ormond Beach! Graduated from Seabreeze! Lived on Silk Oaks Dr. On Peninsula north of the Publix!
I heard a baby in your car. Are you leaving your baby in the car when you go shop?
Obviously not lol. My husband came along to help me film this video, so baby came too ... and into the store with us ;)
I’m trippin lol, saw you driving across Granada bridge and I’m like wait! She’s in my area!
I try my first instacart order work hard lots of drive lots of item .all this drama for 19 bucks .that s why i do part time
Hm..while u are making money I'm sitting here waiting for orders
Hey kettie, I am from instacart shopper support. And I am new to this job. Can you please explain me what kind of issues instacart shoppers facing all the time so that I can quickly give the resolution to the shopper.i literally want to help shoppers
And to help them I need to learn the problems they are facing.
Hope you are doing well. I was just searching the instacart videos on youtube so that I can learn about the situations of the shoppers. So I found you here so I just text you😊
What does the CT by the item mean? Does that mean how many you are supposed to get or what? New Instacart shopper here.. help
thanks - very informative. i calculate time diff. waiting to me matters. it seems the food apps have found a way to pay minimum wage. $15p/hr is what i get which includes your wait time, lunch & cash tip. the bonus is that your car doesn't move while you wait - except on return to the store.
Just signed up with your code. Thank you!!!
When you are checking out multiple orders in one batch do you checkout separately or all together?
3 separately
Seperate
I often get on the app and look at what area the boosts are in and peak times. I usually go down to Bloomington quite often bc of their 27 percent boosts. About a 40 minute drive, but it really is worth it. You'll make more than you spend on like gas and what not.
Bro I'm in the Fresno California area and I still can't get into Instacart. I applied 1 year ago and talked to a couple Reps this month and they say I just have to wait.
Cool. I've been nervous about taking my first order but your process was very easy to follow.
If you're waiting for your debit card does a 30 orders in 30 days start after you get that debit card or does it start the day you sign up?
When I signed up a couple years ago, it was once you were approved to shop (background check complete, etc). We were able to use ApplePay right away, but did need to wait on the physical card to shop at certain stores. Hopefully someone who has signed up more recently can respond if anything has changed? And how long the cards are currently taking to arrive? I am curious as well. We did have plenty of time to complete the 30 batches - especially if you take really small orders that can be completed quickly.
@@raisingwildflowers I’m a new instacart shopper. A little insight on how long it takes to receive your physical card, for my card it was almost a month. You can shop without it using mobile pay but with restrictions on batches they will offer you. Wed. the 29th 2023 was my first day. I waited till I got physical card to start shopping/delivering orders. If you take the orders and you meet the deadlines more will be offered to you the next day. You’ll also get group batching where you can shop and deliver for multiple customers at the same time
@@jamesrwaltonjr-vj5gq Thanks so much for sharing! Wow, a month is a long time to wait on the card!
Any tips to get off waitlist? That has been my problem for near 2 years now.
I lived in Ormond Beach for a year and I absolutely loved it. Such a great place to live and super safe.