u/The_LastLine

Just did a Costco order and it went well. The mileage was actually a lot lower than Instacart quoted which was a welcome surprise. However, at the end of the last delivery, the app asked me why there was a pineapple. I thought this was really strange because there wasn’t any produce shopped at all. And I couldn’t figure out what happened so I just said I don’t know why there is a pineapple on there. I got all the items the customer ordered. I just looked at the receipt and found out the pork chops were not on the receipt. Somehow the cashier rang up a pineapple tag when scanning them, or their POS really screwed up.

Is it the useless support or the broken ai vibe coded app? Had to cancel a good paying order because the app had a conniption fit over Roma tomatoes and could not get it to proceed, then had to battle with the garbage ai agent to talk to someone then they were utterly useless because they probably just have a few scripts to read and zero tools. They claim I will receive compensation, I’m 100% confident that compensation will be zero.

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Recently got finished with a delivery where I had a verbal altercation with a customer. They took issue with the custom greeting that I had set up several years ago that I’ve used for thousands of orders with zero incident. They apparently thought I was trying to flirt with their wife and incorrectly stated that I had a winking face (it was a smile emoji) and cussed me out.

He had to pull the Macho tough guy routine over a nonsense greeting, so I told him I would block him so he wouldn’t have to see me again. It’s sad how things are still easily misinterpreted by people nowadays. Just had to update my greeting to remove any possible ambiguity. Hopefully I am not kicked off the platform, but with how these companies overreact, I’m probably at the end of days.

How the HECK can I get my party to stick with me LMAO

I didn't seem to remember this being such a problem when I played it at the age of 9, but at the age of 44 they seem to absolutely love to stay behind and not follow me. is there some kind of trick? I am playing via GOG dosbox version

I was doing a Walmart Spark delivery that had a very good payout, and I was really looking forward to it. I proceeded to the first address, routed in my Apple Maps, and it was to an address I never delivered before and had concerns about. Not gonna go into the specifics on why, but it is an address I have passed by numerous times and they are obsessed with a particular person to a very unhealthy level.

The Spark app wasn’t allowing me to confirm arrival even though I was maybe within 20 feet or so of the bubble. I had to contact Support to try to get it overridden and sent them photos and etc. I delivered and got out of there ASAP and noticed on my way out that it was actually the wrong address. I drove down the road a little bit and found the correct address, which happened to be well outside of the Spark bubble, as well as not at all where Apple Maps told me to turn.

Fortunately, nothing bad came of it, I returned to the original address and retrieved the order, it all seemed to be intact. And I delivered it to the correct address and spoke with the customer and apologize and etc. And sent the photos of that delivery to the Spark Support. She seemed nice, but I hope she doesn’t report the order missing or tip bait etc. I don’t think that’s gonna happen but you never know, fingers crossed.

Been out for close to 2 hours, not a single batch even remotely worth taking. On a Friday of all days. Total of 2 batches I’ve even seen from the local Costco and none of the other nearby shops have had anything. It seems when they have those crappy incentives, it jives with a totally dead market.

Never saw this before on a shop order, I went ahead and took items without bagging, I use plastic totes to carry my orders anyway, but never knew this was an option. Not a state that does paper bags or anything like that.

The last customer I delivered to just called me, dunno how they were even able to do it given that the order was completed 2 hours ago and I had not previously talked to them on the phone, but they were able to call me through their app. It was about a missing item, which I didn’t know anything about because the story doesn’t allow us to load the items or etc so I just gave them what they loaded in my vehicle for them, and it was only 2 orders and they were completely in separate areas of my vehicle. What is even the point of that? If they have a problem shouldn’t it get them in touch with the store or Spark support instead?

-Run instacart and competitor app at same time

Instacart: here’s nothing, or some bullshit you’ll never take

-Accept a reasonable offer on another app that pays decently.

Instacart: Here’s a bunch of actual good offers that we know you can’t take without penalizing yourself on the other app.

Every time. I legit saw the highest offer I’ve ever seen in my area, it would have been physically impossible for me to finish this order and do the deliveries and make to the store in time. I’m convinced that’s the only reason that order ever materialized. If I was still in the parking lot, it would have never existed.