Instacart shoppers say the highest-earning orders are getting more extreme, with demands like 72-mile drives
Many Instacart shoppers focus on shopping and delivering the highest-earning orders — think weekly grocery runs for big families or a stock-up trip to Costco.
But lately, the highest-paying orders require shopping for hundreds of items or driving over an hour to deliver them, if not both. The change is especially pronounced, shoppers say, in the wake of Instacart's decision toThere are still orders that shoppers can claim for higher payouts of $10 or more, Instacart said inannouncing the pay cut last month."Instacart may pay more for batches based on the size and complexity of each order," the post reads.
But some shoppers say that"complex" can be a high bar. One shopper in Virginia told Insider that she recently passed on an order with a $36 payout. It would have involved buying a handful of items at a Food Lion grocery store, then driving them 72 miles to the customer — a trek that the shopper estimated would've taken her at least an hour and a half.
One of the items in the order was ice cream, according to the worker."After an hour-and-a-half drive, that ice cream would've been milk," the shopper told Insider."The customer would've definitely given the shopper a one-star review." on Monday that shoppers have control over which batches they choose to shop, and that it pays according to the complexity of each order.
Instacart shoppers have been sharing screenshots of orders offered to them over the last week that show similarly complex tasks: In Georgia, an order with an $11.50 payout called for buying 84 items at a Kroger store, then driving them to the customer 11 miles away. Outside of St. Louis, Missouri, an order that paid almost $48 asked shoppers to pick out 73 items at an Aldi, then drive them almost 69 miles away into neighboring Illinois.
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