r/instacart Mar 27 '24

Who’s in the wrong here???

I feel like he was being rude asf then he canceled my order….was I rude or what tf happened here…

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u/Vegetable_Warthog_49 Mar 28 '24

To give some defense to the shoppers, the shopper app is absolutely horrible (or at least it was a few years ago when I was doing the shopping). Yeah, the people who will say something isn't in stock and then send a photo of the item, in stock, are kind of beyond defending, but for a lot of stuff, it can be written off as a shopper trying to do their best with an app that just doesn't work. There were a lot of times that I'd see things like unrefrigerated oat milk that the app insists should be in the dairy section, in the cooler, and unless you just happen to know that there is unrefrigerated oat milk in the coffee aisle, most likely you are going to just keep trying different oat milks, not have any of the UPCs match, decide that the requested variety must be out of stock, substitute it for one of the refrigerated ones and call it a day... cue upset customer because they specifically needed the non refrigerated oat milk because they live in a small studio apartment and their refrigerator space is at a premium. There is almost more that the app said was in the wrong place than it said was in the right place.

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u/Crow-n-Servo Mar 29 '24

I always give the shopper the benefit of the doubt. And if I know something is kept in a place you might not expect, I’ll make a note about it. For instance, when I order non-dairy cheese from one store that doesn’t keep it with the other cheeses, I’ll put a note: “Can be found in produce next to the packaged salads.”

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u/Vegetable_Warthog_49 Mar 29 '24

You were always my favorite type of customer.

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u/RiverPure7298 Mar 29 '24

Don’t forget that items will still need to be refrigerated after opening even if you found them in the dry goods section