My Instacart shopper is making some wild changes.
My Instacart shopper is making some wild changes.
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hopefully whatever you were making with that sour cream will survive the beef rawhide replacement 🤣
Beef rawhide, the keto substitute for sour cream
Wash it down with a shot of corn oil and bone broth
The one and only time I got grocery delivery, they subbed frozen mango chunks for frozen butternut squash, as if the most important thing was getting something orange and frozen and not like, picking a different vegetable I could use for dinner instead. I ended up making smoothies with the mangos though.
This desperate fool is making her own shopping trip by subbing your stuff out…
Yep. Hopefully OP sees this. This is a common fraud perpetrated via instacart. The shopper basically subs all your stuff for whatever they want and then marks your stuff delivered. You won't get your order but Instacart should refund you.
Today I ordered six mini bottles (I guess 10 oz each?) of club soda. They were out, so the shopper brought me four large bottles of club soda (maybe 38 oz each?).
Apparently I need to drink a lot of mojitos.
I usually try to go with Shipt shoppers if I can. IMHO, they give more of a shit compared to IC.
There is a very high chance the people shopping are doing it for every brand they can. At best shipt simply has better costumer support and they don't want to mess with it.
They tend to be more aggressive about booting bad shoppers off of their platform.
I notice the suggestions are more expensive. Do they make more?
I would assume the amount they make is a percentage of the cart total. That would be the only way to make longer trips worth it. So that would incentivize suggesting more expensive options. But I imagine there’s also a tip mechanic so doing obvious stuff like that could hurt your tip.
It could be 2 things, 1) what you wanted was already the cheapest 2) maybe they think replacing it with a “better” quality version is a better move than cheaper.
Better is in quotes since more expensive doesn’t equal better quality.
I really don’t know, talking out my ass rn
You want paper towels? Nah you get dog treats, bro
Although person probably just scanned the wrong item 😂
So crazy insta cart is a thing for use cases other than substantial disability... which it must be I guess? It's too well known for such a small niche. Every time I see it mentioned I am shocked.
It’s good for people without transportation, too. A family of four taking the bus where they need to go? Fine. A family of four hauling a family of four’s worth of groceries home on the bus? Less fine. Especially if the bus stop isn’t actually close to their home. Then it’s a family of four (if you can even get them all together at the same time because you need the extra hands) hauling a family of four’s worth of groceries (including bulky stuff like toilet paper) down city blocks or through industrial areas or rural areas or wherever, for however long it takes. Throw in a broken bag now and then, and… yeah. Grocery delivery is a much better option.
This is a good point too. The nice thing about Walmart delivery is that you can change your address.
So if you typically have it delivered to your home address, but you fly somewhere on vacation and don’t get a rental car, you can have Walmart deliver your groceries to your vacation spot. That’s a lot cheaper than using a taxi to get groceries, or buying every meal you eat on vacation - especially if you have a family!
You’d be blown away at the amount of people that use delivery services for groceries and other restaurant deliveries. I know of a few that do it multiple times a week, and anecdotally, these are also the same people that complaining about not being able to afford things.
It's a boon even for the mildly or moderately disabled, but truly a godsend for the significantly disabled. Sucks that it costs more and sometimes you get some stupid replacements, but so it goes.