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For 11 miles, I would. I know my grocery store better than most employees. Lol. And that's what I'd make in 3 or 4 hours anyway. Hell, if I could make that in 1 trip and go home, I would.
This! If this was at my Aldi on DoorDash, I'd be in and out. I know where everything is at my store. Earlier I had an instacart order for there for 10 items and was in and out within 7 minutes.
That is $66.40 an hour with a reasonable distance. Even if you took 3 hours that would be $38 an hour. That is more than most people make in regular entry level work. Dashers are constantly underpaid but this order is beyond reasonable, youād be stupid not to take this.
Thatās reasonable! You never know what youāre getting into, but usually an order with 300 or so items will be enough to still fit in a smaller/midsize car. As long as itās not a bike or smart car or something, there should be no issue there. Just check the cart first when you accept, make sure itās not a bunch of watermelons or paper towel megapacks. Worst case you cancel and demand half pay haha
My girlfriend and I try not to do Fresh Thyme on Instacart for the same reason. Everything is organic, gluten-free, dairy-free, meatless, etc., and it's impossible to find anything. I don't know why anybody shops there, anyway. It's also taste-free.
Last time I took a Fresh Thyme order, it paid $18 for 12 items. Seemed good enough, except I had to wait 20 minutes for the Deli to fill the lunch meat order, and I wasted another solid 15 minutes looking for a damn protein bar that was pushed back and hidden on the bottom shelf behind a display rack. 2 employees and myself were scouring the store for one protein bar and none of us could find it.
If I've looked for an item longer than 5 minutes and even the store employee can't find it, I don't care if they have it or not. It's out of stock. š¤£
It's hard to believe a 2hr estimate.. even if it only took 1 minutes per item that's still 265 minutes or 4 hours 25mins. Not counting if it's busy, waiting for employees for specific items, locating items with dietary restrictions, and the most overlooked part.. bagging and checkout.
Let's hope there's no line and hope you can easily lift 15-20 bags of groceries carrying them most likely up 3 flights of stairs in the dark.
That being said, even at a 5 hr estimate that's still over $20 an hour. Great pay, just a lot more work than you might realize!
Would so depend. If thatās towards another hot zone or my home, yeah! Or if my daily goal is $100 and I have time to kill to drive away from home. Iād definitely take into account if I feel confident in the store and locating items quickly enough. Iād immediately message customer when I accept to make sure theyāre ready to be attentive to any subs.
You know what, I would. Even if it did take 2 hours, 100 bucks is for me a good goal for the day. Afterwards, I could keep dashing or not. However, an order that big certainty would fit in my everyday dash'mobile. I'd have to go get my bigger vehicle, which I have done before, on a big (weight and payout) tractor supply order
Ive been a personal shopper at 3 different grocery store chains and I have never in those years seen an order more than 160 items and that order required all hands on deck to complete in time, 265 items is insaneš
That's a shitload of items. Not sure I'd want to deal with 3 carts of food if it's a difficult store where stuff is hard to find. That could easily run into hours of shopping and searching. And then carrying 45 bags of food, along with multiple cases of drinks. If it was a weekday. I probably would. Weekend or night, then probably no
I do a lot of shopping but even for the money 265 items is just insane
Thatās also going to be way more than 2 hours and I can imagine trying to keep stuff cold or transporting that much
No way. Anyone that says yes probably doesnāt do many shop and pay or instacart orders. This order would take *at least* 3 hours. And itās *grunt work*. You can make that amount doing a collection of much easier orders in the same amount of time.
Yeah Sprouts is a nightmare for me. It's all weird food and there is no rhyme or reason what aisle they are in. I had 5 items once and 4 of them no one that worked there could find when I asked them.
The employees at Sprouts are nice. But itās just hard to locate items if you donāt shop there all the time. Iāll do small orders at my local sprouts. Maybe Iāll do big orders if I really get to know the store.
Sprouts sucks. Their store makes no sense. It's like a nicer Aldi. I would do it tho. Make it my one and only dash for the day. Maybe take one more for gas money so i can't pocket the whole thing.
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I would at least accept it to make sure it's not 265 watermelon.
If it was 265 watermelon, you could go to the customer and ask them if they're the person from all these absurd math problems.
This comment is so damn underrated š Me: āSo farmer John, how many watermelons DID you have?ā Farmer John: āThe truck was yellowā
For 11 miles, I would. I know my grocery store better than most employees. Lol. And that's what I'd make in 3 or 4 hours anyway. Hell, if I could make that in 1 trip and go home, I would.
This! If this was at my Aldi on DoorDash, I'd be in and out. I know where everything is at my store. Earlier I had an instacart order for there for 10 items and was in and out within 7 minutes.
Exactly
That is $66.40 an hour with a reasonable distance. Even if you took 3 hours that would be $38 an hour. That is more than most people make in regular entry level work. Dashers are constantly underpaid but this order is beyond reasonable, youād be stupid not to take this.
tbh I wouldāve taken this if I had a bigger vehicle.
Thatās reasonable! You never know what youāre getting into, but usually an order with 300 or so items will be enough to still fit in a smaller/midsize car. As long as itās not a bike or smart car or something, there should be no issue there. Just check the cart first when you accept, make sure itās not a bunch of watermelons or paper towel megapacks. Worst case you cancel and demand half pay haha
Sure probably lots of duplicate items
Sprouts I'd say no I hate shopping there too many funny names and no idea where everything is
My girlfriend and I try not to do Fresh Thyme on Instacart for the same reason. Everything is organic, gluten-free, dairy-free, meatless, etc., and it's impossible to find anything. I don't know why anybody shops there, anyway. It's also taste-free.
Last time I took a Fresh Thyme order, it paid $18 for 12 items. Seemed good enough, except I had to wait 20 minutes for the Deli to fill the lunch meat order, and I wasted another solid 15 minutes looking for a damn protein bar that was pushed back and hidden on the bottom shelf behind a display rack. 2 employees and myself were scouring the store for one protein bar and none of us could find it.
If I've looked for an item longer than 5 minutes and even the store employee can't find it, I don't care if they have it or not. It's out of stock. š¤£
Those employees were on a mission and determined so I find it so I didn't want to be rude.
Fair enough. We actually did that once at a grocery store called County Market. They had the whole store searching for an item for us.
It's hard to believe a 2hr estimate.. even if it only took 1 minutes per item that's still 265 minutes or 4 hours 25mins. Not counting if it's busy, waiting for employees for specific items, locating items with dietary restrictions, and the most overlooked part.. bagging and checkout. Let's hope there's no line and hope you can easily lift 15-20 bags of groceries carrying them most likely up 3 flights of stairs in the dark. That being said, even at a 5 hr estimate that's still over $20 an hour. Great pay, just a lot more work than you might realize!
It sucks they dont show the items or at least some of them
Shopping orders should come with an estimated weight of the items so we have an idea what were getting ourselves into
I swear lol
Yeah unless I wasnāt familiar with the store. But even then Iād probably take it and go home after
I would.
So Jennifer Coolidge is doing doordash commercials now instead of Uber Eats š¤£šš¤£... I would take it
Itās probably a lot of repeat items .. Iād accept it to see if itās an easy order and if it is then yea Iād do the order
Yes!
Would so depend. If thatās towards another hot zone or my home, yeah! Or if my daily goal is $100 and I have time to kill to drive away from home. Iād definitely take into account if I feel confident in the store and locating items quickly enough. Iād immediately message customer when I accept to make sure theyāre ready to be attentive to any subs.
I would. Even if it took me all day that would be worth it. I know my way around a grocery store pretty well though.
It looks so time consuming with the items š©
Damn. Imagine being able to afford that many products from sprouts. But yes Iād take that in a heartbeat
Fuck no thatās like 3 carts worth
I don't even shop over like 30 items for myself so nah I'm good. Lol
Yeah thats 114$ for 3 hours and 26 minutes of driving. thats 38 dollars an hour. 38$ an hour is more then fine
You know what, I would. Even if it did take 2 hours, 100 bucks is for me a good goal for the day. Afterwards, I could keep dashing or not. However, an order that big certainty would fit in my everyday dash'mobile. I'd have to go get my bigger vehicle, which I have done before, on a big (weight and payout) tractor supply order
Yes. Then I can unassign if it's like 20 cases of water in there.
I'd take it to make sure it wasn't a third floor apartment
I hate shopping at Sprouts. But I might take it. But watch them live like on a 3rd floor. Way down at the end of the hall. And no elevator.
Heck yeah unless the 265 ended up being silly but I bet itās a lot of likw seed packs
Damn right Iād take that in a HEARTBEAT
Hell yea
i would honestly.
Typically I hope to make 20 an hour and I don't think this would take me 6 hours lol
Ive been a personal shopper at 3 different grocery store chains and I have never in those years seen an order more than 160 items and that order required all hands on deck to complete in time, 265 items is insaneš
Imagine you do all that and the red card declines š¤¬
That's a shitload of items. Not sure I'd want to deal with 3 carts of food if it's a difficult store where stuff is hard to find. That could easily run into hours of shopping and searching. And then carrying 45 bags of food, along with multiple cases of drinks. If it was a weekday. I probably would. Weekend or night, then probably no
Doing Arm Stretches. Bring it on.
No
I do a lot of shopping but even for the money 265 items is just insane Thatās also going to be way more than 2 hours and I can imagine trying to keep stuff cold or transporting that much
Nope
If it fits
265 items is a no from me! Why would 11 miles take over an hour?
technically you'd profit. but nah, too annoying.
No way. Anyone that says yes probably doesnāt do many shop and pay or instacart orders. This order would take *at least* 3 hours. And itās *grunt work*. You can make that amount doing a collection of much easier orders in the same amount of time.
It is very hard to find items in Sprouts. This would be a maybe, depending on how busy it was with other orders.
Thatās $79 an hour and low miles I would !
No. A few items at sprouts is bad enough.
Yeah Sprouts is a nightmare for me. It's all weird food and there is no rhyme or reason what aisle they are in. I had 5 items once and 4 of them no one that worked there could find when I asked them.
The employees at Sprouts are nice. But itās just hard to locate items if you donāt shop there all the time. Iāll do small orders at my local sprouts. Maybe Iāll do big orders if I really get to know the store.
57 dollars an hour. Even if it were a bunch of water jugs thatās still worth the money. 
Nope. I hate being that side of 77 (for the pickup) and that close to uptown area.
Yes. The shop times are so inflated on DD. I can usually shop in 1/4 of the time estimated. I agree it is probably multiple items.
yes because im fast at shopping.
Who needs that much food. I hope itās more than 2 weeks worth.
It could also be for a company restock.
Yes maybe 200 24cases of water
Yes for an additional 100 dollar tip. Driving almost 2 hours is worthy of that.
> Driving almost 2 hours is worthy of that. It would take you 2 hours to drive 12 miles?
You know what I meant. How long do you think that job will take?
Sprouts sucks. Their store makes no sense. It's like a nicer Aldi. I would do it tho. Make it my one and only dash for the day. Maybe take one more for gas money so i can't pocket the whole thing.
Absolutely. Some stores already do all the shopping for you so all you have to do is pack the car. Car space is really the only issue.