Riders — what’s it like picking up non-food / retail orders?
Curious to hear from riders who’ve done pickups from supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience stores or other retail shops rather than restaurants.
- Do you generally find these pickups:
quicker or slower than restaurant orders?
- more likely to involve waiting around while staff find/prepare the items?
- more complicated because of substitutions, missing items etc?
- worth doing compared with a normal food delivery?
Also, slightly different question… if platforms started offering returns or exchanges as part of retail delivery, where you collect something from the customer and take it back to a shop, how would you feel about doing those jobs?
Would you be happy doing it for similar pay to a delivery, or would it need to pay noticeably more because of the extra hassle/time?
Interested in actual rider experiences rather than what the apps claim it’s like.
EDIT; Thanks all for your very helpful insights !