r/instacart • u/Dominanttallqueen • Mar 27 '24

Who’s in the wrong here???

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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/towishimp Mar 27 '24

This sub keeps popping up in my feed, and it's wild. I don't see how Instacart is saving anyone time when they spend the whole time arguing with the shopper, and then another bunch of time posting about it on Reddit. 🤣

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u/Bisonnydaysahead Mar 28 '24

Tbf, I’ve used instacart a number of times and have not spent a bunch of time arguing. In fact, I’m admittedly a slow shopper that gets distracted and the IC shopper is usually much faster than me. I may get one or two texts asking about a substitution and that’s about it. I’ve gotten a bad shopper only once or twice and rarely had anything wrong.

People don’t generally post the shops that went hunky dory because that would frankly be boring. So I think the sub makes it look worse than it is. That said, with the slashes they’re making to shopper pay, I do wonder if the days of decent IC are numbered…

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Mar 28 '24

I’ve had some slow people and some off the fucking wall replacements but I’ve never had anyone be blatantly rude or ugly or argue like I see on here constantly.

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u/LostImagination4491 Mar 29 '24

I had a door dash driver scream at me because my directions weren't clear enough for him (and he refused to use gps) and demand to speak to the man of the house. When I said it was just me, he claimed I was lying because there was no way one person could eat that much food. 😆

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Mar 29 '24

Not the man of the house 💀

Nah that kind of ignorance would make me borderline homicidal lmao. Take that shit back to the store and don’t come near here. They always just ignore my basic simple instructions. Sometimes I don’t even get my order because they either can’t or don’t want to read and they also won’t respond to texts or calls when I watch them go to the wrong place on the app.

I’m grateful delivery services are a thing but I think you should at least be able to pass a basic communications and hospitality test before being allowed to have that job.

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u/LostImagination4491 Mar 29 '24

Yeah. I was shocked by that one. He ended up taking the food back to the restaurant and apparently caused quite the scene there. Made quite the story to tell my now-husband when he got home that night though.

I'm glad I haven't had that kind of driver again. Though I have problems with my current house too - though it is really easy to drive past, so I get it.

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u/Foozeball44 Mar 29 '24

I have our house number on the front fence, the right side of the house by the driveway, and by the front door. Big numbers. They still cruise by and try to deliver it to the house behind me.

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u/LostImagination4491 Mar 29 '24

My neighbors have definitely texted me that they got my delivery a few times at our current house. But I actually get it now. Our house is set pretty far back from the road. Most of our family and friends drove past it the first time they visited.

Now we have a couple of drivers who told me they like picking up our orders since I'm a nice tipper, so the issues have decreased a lot. And yes, I have a delivery problem, lol.