Great Pay & Freedomv - Full Service Shopper Instacart Employee Review

5.0
4 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay (on avg $28 an hour) Freedom of hours (you can work how little or how much you want) Build relationships with clients and the people at the stores

Cons

pay your own gas People lying about their items Lack of orders sometimes (this job is feast or famine)

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Pros

Great gig that can be done on flexible hours.

Cons

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2.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fun going out and talking to people. You will interact with people everyday. You control how much you get paid. Lots of flexibility in the time between accepting an order and traveling to the store and beginning to shop. It isn't pedal to the metal to get to the store like DoorDash is. You can also cancel batches after accepting as long as you keep your rate under 15%. This is different from DoorDash where your rankings will suffer if g.t. 2% cancellation rate.

Cons

There's a learning curve and it takes a while to learn each chain of stores' items. Once you become proficient at one store, the algorithm will lowball your offers relative to other less-experienced Instacart shoppers. Overall, Instacart shoppers likely get paid similar or less than the store's regular employees.

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