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InstaCart is offering some pretty generous incentives to sign up (most likely because of the negative press they’ve received lately and the fact that half their workforce is threatening to strike) and I’ve been thinking about signing up. Couple of questions for folks that already work for InstaCart:
1.) All of their bonuses currently require 125 deliveries in 30 days. I’m aware it takes 2-3 days to get your card so it’s more like 125 deliveries in 20ish days. Is that even possible with stores limiting the number of shoppers allowed to enter at any given time? Our local Safeway always has a line, sometimes 50 people deep, to get in the door, even if you were to avoid orders from stores you know are going to take forever is there enough volume to reach 125 orders in 20 or so days? 7 orders a day seems pretty difficult if not impossible.
2.) Does anyone actually tip? My tip rate with Uber/Lyft is around 10% so I’m not particularly optimistic that working for InstaCart is profitable, I would just work long enough to collect the bonus and then call it a day. Which brings me to my biggest question:
3.) Do stores REALLY check and make sure that you’re the driver on the account? Obviously driving Uber and Lyft would be difficult under someone else’s name (although not entirely impossible), does InstaCart actually check and see whether it’s Tony picking up the order and not his cousin Sal? Obviously there are reasons to sign up under someone else’s name; yes I know it’s illegal and no I don’t care. Just want to know whether it’s theoretically possible to work under someone else’s account.
Thanks in advance, looking forward to your responses!
1.) All of their bonuses currently require 125 deliveries in 30 days. I’m aware it takes 2-3 days to get your card so it’s more like 125 deliveries in 20ish days. Is that even possible with stores limiting the number of shoppers allowed to enter at any given time? Our local Safeway always has a line, sometimes 50 people deep, to get in the door, even if you were to avoid orders from stores you know are going to take forever is there enough volume to reach 125 orders in 20 or so days? 7 orders a day seems pretty difficult if not impossible.
2.) Does anyone actually tip? My tip rate with Uber/Lyft is around 10% so I’m not particularly optimistic that working for InstaCart is profitable, I would just work long enough to collect the bonus and then call it a day. Which brings me to my biggest question:
3.) Do stores REALLY check and make sure that you’re the driver on the account? Obviously driving Uber and Lyft would be difficult under someone else’s name (although not entirely impossible), does InstaCart actually check and see whether it’s Tony picking up the order and not his cousin Sal? Obviously there are reasons to sign up under someone else’s name; yes I know it’s illegal and no I don’t care. Just want to know whether it’s theoretically possible to work under someone else’s account.
Thanks in advance, looking forward to your responses!
