I signed up to be the instacart shopper. No requirements other than you have a driver’s license.
I did exactly one order. First, the orders appear around the top of the hour, and they expect you to deliver within one hour. You have to ‘grab’ the order only knowing the number of items and the approx amount you will make. I think there were 22 different items and 35 or more total (doubles of some things). There were 5-6 produce items and those are hard to pick out even though I know what ginger root looks like (but a 22 year old may not). The store was very crowded and it took me an hour to shop and check out. I was new at it so didn’t really understand the check out and had to get help, but it worked. I then had to drive about 2.5 miles to deliver, haul it up about 20 stairs (2 trips). The grocery order was about $75. I only had to make 2 or three substitution which the person had to approve. It was heavy - 10 pounds of spaghetti and 10 pounds of rice.
My payment? $12. It was supposed to be $13 but I guess because the order had a few missing items I was docked. $12. That included the tip. When you accept the order, you don’t know if the estimate includes a tip or not, so you could take a batch that is $15 and then get a $10 tip at the door but no guarantees.
I won’t do it again. I saw a batch recently that was $25 but there were over 100 items on the list. That would take 2 hours to shop and deliver and no guarantee of the $25.
While I was shopping, there were Kroger shoppers too. They are paid more than $12 per hour to slowly shop the store for the items on the pick up lists.