Customers are reportedly offering Instacart workers high tips to drop off groceries during the coronavirus pandemic, only to switch the tips to $0 after the food is delivered
Photo: 2019 The Washington Post/Getty Images Instacart workers, who have been putting themselves at risk during the coronavirus pandemic to deliver groceries to people sheltering in their homes, are being baited with high tips by customers who want their order picked up, only to have their tips switched to $0 after the groceries are delivered, CNN reported today.
Annaliisa Arambula, an Instacart shopper in Portland, Oregon, who has worked for the company full time since 2017, told CNN about an incident in late March where she accepted a grocery order that came with a $55 tip, only to open the app hours later to discover that the customer had eliminated the entire tip after she had made her delivery. Arambula said she earned just $8.95 on the whole order.
Other Instacart shoppers said they’d experienced similar bait-and-switch situations. One Instacart worker in Pennsylvania, Jenifer G., said she’d recently had a customer put a $32.94 tip on an order of 27 items from Sam’s Club, only to find they had replaced it with a $0 tip after delivery. Another shopper said a customer had changed their tip to $0 after saying it was “unethical” that the shopper had not been able to find the toilet paper the customer ordered.
This report comes in the middle of an Instacart worker strike. At the end of March, workers announced they would strike until Instacart met their demands, including $5 in hazard pay per order, free hand sanitizer, and expanded paid sick leave.
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