> grocery store shopping doesn't suck bad enough to pay someone else to do both the shopping and delivering
I actually like going to the grocery store, but I still have been using instacart a few times a month (up to today) for various reasons:
- One of my kids is homesick or having a nap and I can't go to the store
- My day is packed with work and I can't go to the store
- I have guests over the holidays that I would rather spend time with than go to the store
- I'm doing something important with my kids on the weekend and I'd rather do that than go to the store
- My kid tells me that they need something for school tomorrow and there's no gap of time left in the day when I can go to the store
All of that said, I'm stopping today because of this article. Their ethics are reprehensible. They specifically say in the app that 100% of my tip goes to the driver. That's true only if you look at it with very shaky logic -- they fail to mention that they deduct an equal amount from their base pay.
I actually like going to the grocery store, but I still have been using instacart a few times a month (up to today) for various reasons:
- One of my kids is homesick or having a nap and I can't go to the store
- My day is packed with work and I can't go to the store
- I have guests over the holidays that I would rather spend time with than go to the store
- I'm doing something important with my kids on the weekend and I'd rather do that than go to the store
- My kid tells me that they need something for school tomorrow and there's no gap of time left in the day when I can go to the store
All of that said, I'm stopping today because of this article. Their ethics are reprehensible. They specifically say in the app that 100% of my tip goes to the driver. That's true only if you look at it with very shaky logic -- they fail to mention that they deduct an equal amount from their base pay.