Picking up groceries was the worst. Only did it once with Uber. I didn't even know that we delivered groceries, but I accepted a pickup at Krogers, and I went there thinking I was picking up a pizza or something. Nope. Told to go and park and wait. I wasn't planning to do anything like this and already had a bunch of stuff in the car, so I asked how much stuff it was and then tried to rearrange stuff in the car. It was cold outside and I should have stayed home, but I was curious to see if people tipped more (about half did, but still not worth it). Had to wait fifteen minutes for them to come out with the order. The order was going to an apartment complex literally behind the store. Found the apartment, parked in an unmarked spot that I thought was close enough, but the customer told me to move to a different spot so that she could help me (but then she never left the apartment so I don't know why that mattered to her). Got all the stuff out, and then when I handed her the last bag she asked if I had been paid yet. I told her that I got paid on an app and that it would probably show up in a few minutes. She said okay and tipped me five dollars cash (probably because it was cold). I wondered how much extra we got for doing this, but turns out, not a bit. Same three bucks plus mileage (mileage for driving behind the store is apparently twenty-five cents) that I get for delivering a hamburger, and it was a lot of work and took more than forty minutes of my time.
Okay, so I don't need to do that again until that changes to at least ten bucks. And I can't imagine if this lady hadn't lived on the ground floor, or if she'd ordered bottled water or something.
Was curious, but whenever I got deliveries that turned out to be for Krogers I cancelled. Kinda forgot about it. Then I got a delivery for Walmart, and I was curious, again wondering if it would be a pizza or something from pharmacy or what. Nope. Park and wait for groceries. Hmmmm. Called and asked what kind of stuff and how much stuff, they said it was a small order, about 20 bags. This did not sound like a small delivery to me, and I hadn't heard anything about it being more money, so said no thanks and cancelled. A week later, same thing, a supposedly small order of twenty bags, so no thank you.
Walmart delivery is now on DoorDash. My husband did two of these which paid almost $10 each. Again, I guess he got lucky that there wasn't a lot of stuff like bottled water and neither delivery involved stairs, but it still took too long with waiting around for other people to get the groceries and load the car. So he said no more of that.