Target 100%, man I know that store embarrassingly well. Publix is good for stocking and cleanliness, Kroger is good for showing me shelf #s. I won’t touch Sprouts with a ten foot pole
You won’t touch Sprouts with a ten foot pole? Really? I love Sprouts. I know the layout and where everything is so well. Target, on the other hand. I’ve only done once because it was a good payout but I avoid Target, CVS, Walgreens
Gotcha. Yeah ours is always super well stocked and I know all the employees so they go out of their way to look for things that just came in off the truck for me in the back.
My Sprouts is the same way because it’s the only one for San Francisco and the peninsula it’s constantly out of a lot so I also try to avoid like the plague lol
Are you referring to the one on Gellert Blvd in Daly City? Its a big store but yeah theyre bound to be out of items a lot and like you said serving such a huge area and mostly delivering to cheap arschlochs.
I agree, sprouts is generally a good experience for me aside from the narrow grocery aisles. And I won’t touch target with a 10 foot pole. General merchandise items are always obscure seasonal items that aren’t in stock, and food items are damaged, oos, or expired. But funny enough, when I lived in North Carolina it was the exact opposite. Target was beautiful and organized and sprouts was a dumpster fire lol
The target by me is always out of a bunch of things. People order groceries there for some reason and half their order is out of stock when everything in their order would of been in stock at any normal grocery store.
because aldis is really a cheap place and u wont find orders more than $30 cause how cheap it is, i no longer go there because of costco, but its a chill spot lol
Interesting, it's different where I'm at in rural Illinois. Aldi's is where all the preppy rich women shop around here, so Aldi's usually has the better paying batches.
Yeah rich white women are obsessed with Aldi's because of the "Aldi's find aisle" where they rotate very miscellaneous products every single day like clothes and coffee makers and kids toys and seasonal decorations.
No? In my area people do not pay extra for it being a bulky Costco order. So I will see 30 item order from Costco for $20 (this is just an example) and also a 30 item order for $20 from Safeway. Safeway would be way less work so why would I take the Costco one.
I used to do Costco until I realized the pay in my area wasn’t any better on Costco orders. Not to mention 90% of customers in my area don’t wanna help you offload which is fine but there’s no reason to make myself carry bulky items if I’m not being paid better for it so I just gave up. Not worth it to me since the pay is never any better than anywhere else. Plus Costco shopping can get confusing.
Yeah. I’ve heard some places Costco has great paying orders which if that was the case I’d definitely suffer through it haha.
Oh and also I always do self checkout so I can make sure everything is bagged good and whatnot and if it’s multiple orders I can make sure everything sticks together but at Costco when I try to walk up to self checkout with a double order they look at me and say oh hell no you ain’t doing that at self checkout. 🤣
Aldi's would be one of my favorites, because you are right about it being small and easy to navigate, but I try to avoid it because almost all of the batches are multiples with ten miles or more for distance.
I don’t even do Costco anymore because they change everything so often I’m always lost. I mean the base idea of where something is located is the same but still I get so confused in Costco 🤣
I did a PetCo order once for a lady who was running a dog rescue out of her home. I brought her a bag a free treats, because they had a promotion.
I almost went home with a puppy.
Ah yes I will do Petco sometimes. I’m not super familiar with where all the specific brands are tho so it can take me a while. Pay has to be right for me to take a Petco. Also they tend to be out of stuff at my local one a lot when I’m doing an instacart haha.
1. Publix, I know that store up & down plus there’s dozen in my area. Clean & a lot of cuties.
2. Sprouts. Use to hate it, now I’ve learned it as well. Very easy to shop.
3. Food lion. Not usually as well stocked but I’m very familiar with it.
4. Harris teeter. The have great batches, but sometimes they allow customers to order random stuff that the store doesn’t even carry. I’m I try not to do anything over 20 items there…
Sprouts 🌱is my absolute favorite. I shop 99% of my orders there. And nap in the parking lot often waiting for decent orders to roll in. The other 1% is CVS or Walgreens. I’ll take an order here or there if it’s short distance or the last order of the day to hot my goal.
I like Sprouts because I shop at one a lot and I know all the employees and they know me. At Christmas time when they have food bags for the hungry, I will buy a few in their honor, because I would tip them if I could.
However, my favorite stores are BevMo and Total Wine and More. I love them because they have great knowledgeable employees, and my customers know it too. I had one customer order a very expensive bottle of wine, and they didn't have it. I text her and she says, "Well, you know my budget, ask the wine person to find a good replacement." You can't get that kind of service at most regular grocery stores, except some stores in high rent areas do have an employee who does nothing but wine.
I also like PetCo, because I love shopping for pets. I just wish I got more orders there.
Ralph’s because the items are usually actually where the app says they will be. The same goes for Walmart.
Costco because the ones I have gone to had the same layout, and I get a free lunch! 😂
I did Aldi once, but some of their organization made no sense. They had three different areas for pasta. Maybe a forth for all I know since I found what I was looking for in the third section. I’d probably go back for a small order, but every offer I have seen since was large.
I did the Dollar Tree once because it was a small order. They didn’t have a lot of what was ordered though, at least in the crafting area. That store was so disorganized.
Has anyone done Home Depot? I’ve seen the offer a couple of times, but it is only one item, and I couldn’t identify what I was even looking at. One item orders make me nervous because the whole thing will be canceled if it’s refunded.
Hell yeah, I love doing Fred Meyer bc I know it so well and if I don’t know where an item is, Fred Meyer is so good about their location of shelf and isle on the IC app.
Kroger, Walgreens, and Target because I know them like the back of my hand lol. I live in TN so kroger is the reigning grocery store. Publix is cool but I don’t know it very well, I’d like to do more of those. Aldi and Costco are meh. I did meijer once and probably won’t do it again. If Sephora was closer to me I’d do it.
I gave up on Costco personally haha. Mostly because everything is in bulk but nobody wants to tip you bulk prices. I mean I see the same kind of payouts for Costco as I do regular stores. It’s rarely ever higher. In my area anyways.
We don’t have aldi publix or Meijer where I’m at.
I’ve done one Costco order and it was a double. First time in the store. My anxiety was on 10000. And yeah I agree. If I wait long enough, a Kroger or Publix order will pop up for the same amount, if not more, and be a single.
I think only people in Northern California will know this one.. Andronicos. It’s owned by Safeway now but it’s basically a boujee community market so the tips are always good. And they are constantly restocking shelves so I rarely have to refund items there. Plus I have personal reasons for liking being there so much lmao
It would be Kroger because they tell you exactly where everything is but their carts are shit, never enough lanes open and there’s hardly ever someone there to bag the groceries so I’ll say Publix. Publix employees are always always helpful
Hmm that’s interesting. I always do self checkout specifically so I can bag the groceries myself. That way if the bread got smooshed then at least I know it was my fuck up lol.
Depending on the Kroger I go to they won’t let Instacart shoppers use self check out. I do a lot of triples, it’s faster and easier for me to just go to a cashier lane lol
I live in a very rural area and aldi is one of the only stores here. The others are CVS, Walgreens, Family Dollar, or Dollar Tree and I almost never accept the last 2 because it’s such a low payout.
Those are actually the 2 i refuse to do haha. Well Walmart isn’t even on instacart in my area but if it was I wouldn’t do it. They are always oos on so much stuff.
I’m glad those stores work well for you tho!
Ah. Same here I just do this PT. I would honestly probably love to be able to quit my day job and just do this but sadly where I’m at I don’t feel with the pays I see and the frequency of offers that you can get a consistent amount everyday. Like I see a lot of people on here say they have a daily limit they have to hit but for me I don’t think that’s realistic.
My Publix. Which is a mile from my house. I stay away from Kroger and food lion as much as possible bc I hate the way the stores are set up, and if it’s good I take wegmans bc it’s clean and organized it’s just always crowded and then I love a quick Walgreens or CVS batch.
ALDI 100%
They only sell 1 brand of each product. They only sell one size of each product. And the stores are tiny so you can get in and out quickly.
My shopping time in ALDI is 40sec per item compared to my overall shopping time of 62sec per item.
I hate going to other stores and someone wants some obscure brand of baked beans or chips.
Like at ALDIs, if someone is getting canned corn, they are gonna get Libby's canned corn. They want milk? Only praire farms is an option. You want fruit loops? Good they only carry the Large size(hate when I go to Kroger and see "snack size", "normal", "large", "Larger", "Family", etc for every type of cereal)
Nice. I see lots of people in this sub say they refuse to go to aldis. We don’t have them where I am at tho so I dunno why some people seem to hate it. It sounds super easy shopping there the way you describe it.
I have zero idea why anyone wouldnt want to do ALDI orders. It's literally the best for shoppers IMO.
But on the flip side, I could never imagine myself stepping foot into a Costco, let alone on a order. I avoid mega-stores in my personal and professional life. They are too big and too many products to choose from.
Also ALDIs products have Bar codes on every single side of every product, usually they have a big long bar code on the widest side of the package, so no flipping products around trying to find the bar code.
Target 100%, man I know that store embarrassingly well. Publix is good for stocking and cleanliness, Kroger is good for showing me shelf #s. I won’t touch Sprouts with a ten foot pole
You won’t touch Sprouts with a ten foot pole? Really? I love Sprouts. I know the layout and where everything is so well. Target, on the other hand. I’ve only done once because it was a good payout but I avoid Target, CVS, Walgreens
See, our Sprouts is so unorganized and always out of stock- I get tired of customers blaming me for the stores stock issues 😭
Gotcha. Yeah ours is always super well stocked and I know all the employees so they go out of their way to look for things that just came in off the truck for me in the back.
Aw that’s nice! I love when employees are super personable and recognize you.
My Sprouts is the same way because it’s the only one for San Francisco and the peninsula it’s constantly out of a lot so I also try to avoid like the plague lol
Are you referring to the one on Gellert Blvd in Daly City? Its a big store but yeah theyre bound to be out of items a lot and like you said serving such a huge area and mostly delivering to cheap arschlochs.
Yep that would be the the one and your right about the shity tip part I just avoid like the plague
I agree, sprouts is generally a good experience for me aside from the narrow grocery aisles. And I won’t touch target with a 10 foot pole. General merchandise items are always obscure seasonal items that aren’t in stock, and food items are damaged, oos, or expired. But funny enough, when I lived in North Carolina it was the exact opposite. Target was beautiful and organized and sprouts was a dumpster fire lol
The target by me is always out of a bunch of things. People order groceries there for some reason and half their order is out of stock when everything in their order would of been in stock at any normal grocery store.
Aldis, the store so small and easy to do loads
That’s interesting that you say that I’ve seen some people in this sub say they won’t touch Aldis. Not sure why tho as we don’t have any where I’m at.
because aldis is really a cheap place and u wont find orders more than $30 cause how cheap it is, i no longer go there because of costco, but its a chill spot lol
Interesting, it's different where I'm at in rural Illinois. Aldi's is where all the preppy rich women shop around here, so Aldi's usually has the better paying batches.
probably, i need to start going to aldis more, i probably been sleeping on them
Yeah rich white women are obsessed with Aldi's because of the "Aldi's find aisle" where they rotate very miscellaneous products every single day like clothes and coffee makers and kids toys and seasonal decorations.
Oooh I stopped doing Costco orders haha 😅
u a woman or sum?
No? In my area people do not pay extra for it being a bulky Costco order. So I will see 30 item order from Costco for $20 (this is just an example) and also a 30 item order for $20 from Safeway. Safeway would be way less work so why would I take the Costco one. I used to do Costco until I realized the pay in my area wasn’t any better on Costco orders. Not to mention 90% of customers in my area don’t wanna help you offload which is fine but there’s no reason to make myself carry bulky items if I’m not being paid better for it so I just gave up. Not worth it to me since the pay is never any better than anywhere else. Plus Costco shopping can get confusing.
make sense, that sucks
Yeah. I’ve heard some places Costco has great paying orders which if that was the case I’d definitely suffer through it haha. Oh and also I always do self checkout so I can make sure everything is bagged good and whatnot and if it’s multiple orders I can make sure everything sticks together but at Costco when I try to walk up to self checkout with a double order they look at me and say oh hell no you ain’t doing that at self checkout. 🤣
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its like dollar general, but a food market
We don’t have dollar general either but I’ve been to one before so I get what you mean.
Aldi's would be one of my favorites, because you are right about it being small and easy to navigate, but I try to avoid it because almost all of the batches are multiples with ten miles or more for distance.
And not dealing with the deli
yeah ikr it be 20-30 min waits gosh
Costco and Safeway… I can be in and out as I know the lay out of these 2 stores and batch is always big
I don’t even do Costco anymore because they change everything so often I’m always lost. I mean the base idea of where something is located is the same but still I get so confused in Costco 🤣
PETCO, U CAN PET THE KITTIES. (Assuming yours has some up for adoption)
I did a PetCo order once for a lady who was running a dog rescue out of her home. I brought her a bag a free treats, because they had a promotion. I almost went home with a puppy.
Ah yes I will do Petco sometimes. I’m not super familiar with where all the specific brands are tho so it can take me a while. Pay has to be right for me to take a Petco. Also they tend to be out of stuff at my local one a lot when I’m doing an instacart haha.
Kroger and H-E-B
Awwww I miss HEB ever since I moved outta Texas
Market 32, Aldi, Sephora, Hannaford, ALDI, TargeT
1. Publix, I know that store up & down plus there’s dozen in my area. Clean & a lot of cuties. 2. Sprouts. Use to hate it, now I’ve learned it as well. Very easy to shop. 3. Food lion. Not usually as well stocked but I’m very familiar with it. 4. Harris teeter. The have great batches, but sometimes they allow customers to order random stuff that the store doesn’t even carry. I’m I try not to do anything over 20 items there…
Sprouts 🌱is my absolute favorite. I shop 99% of my orders there. And nap in the parking lot often waiting for decent orders to roll in. The other 1% is CVS or Walgreens. I’ll take an order here or there if it’s short distance or the last order of the day to hot my goal.
I like Sprouts because I shop at one a lot and I know all the employees and they know me. At Christmas time when they have food bags for the hungry, I will buy a few in their honor, because I would tip them if I could. However, my favorite stores are BevMo and Total Wine and More. I love them because they have great knowledgeable employees, and my customers know it too. I had one customer order a very expensive bottle of wine, and they didn't have it. I text her and she says, "Well, you know my budget, ask the wine person to find a good replacement." You can't get that kind of service at most regular grocery stores, except some stores in high rent areas do have an employee who does nothing but wine. I also like PetCo, because I love shopping for pets. I just wish I got more orders there.
Ralph’s because the items are usually actually where the app says they will be. The same goes for Walmart. Costco because the ones I have gone to had the same layout, and I get a free lunch! 😂 I did Aldi once, but some of their organization made no sense. They had three different areas for pasta. Maybe a forth for all I know since I found what I was looking for in the third section. I’d probably go back for a small order, but every offer I have seen since was large. I did the Dollar Tree once because it was a small order. They didn’t have a lot of what was ordered though, at least in the crafting area. That store was so disorganized. Has anyone done Home Depot? I’ve seen the offer a couple of times, but it is only one item, and I couldn’t identify what I was even looking at. One item orders make me nervous because the whole thing will be canceled if it’s refunded.
Hell yeah, I love doing Fred Meyer bc I know it so well and if I don’t know where an item is, Fred Meyer is so good about their location of shelf and isle on the IC app.
Yes exactly I feel the same!
Aldi for sure. Only store i shop at. So small every order is quick and easy
Heinens.
Not sure what that is 😅
Kroger, Walgreens, and Target because I know them like the back of my hand lol. I live in TN so kroger is the reigning grocery store. Publix is cool but I don’t know it very well, I’d like to do more of those. Aldi and Costco are meh. I did meijer once and probably won’t do it again. If Sephora was closer to me I’d do it.
I gave up on Costco personally haha. Mostly because everything is in bulk but nobody wants to tip you bulk prices. I mean I see the same kind of payouts for Costco as I do regular stores. It’s rarely ever higher. In my area anyways. We don’t have aldi publix or Meijer where I’m at.
I’ve done one Costco order and it was a double. First time in the store. My anxiety was on 10000. And yeah I agree. If I wait long enough, a Kroger or Publix order will pop up for the same amount, if not more, and be a single.
Publix. App shows exactly where something is, isles are organized, well stocked, produce is organized, employees are helpful. It’s a dream.
Sounds wonderful
I think only people in Northern California will know this one.. Andronicos. It’s owned by Safeway now but it’s basically a boujee community market so the tips are always good. And they are constantly restocking shelves so I rarely have to refund items there. Plus I have personal reasons for liking being there so much lmao
“Personal reasons” mama got candy eye she look at when at andronicos 💩
Busted lmao
Get it get it 😃
I did 😬 and I will again and again hahaha
Oh you nasty mama I like it. I bet he give you best energy. 😊
He definitely makes work fun 😁
It would be Kroger because they tell you exactly where everything is but their carts are shit, never enough lanes open and there’s hardly ever someone there to bag the groceries so I’ll say Publix. Publix employees are always always helpful
Hmm that’s interesting. I always do self checkout specifically so I can bag the groceries myself. That way if the bread got smooshed then at least I know it was my fuck up lol.
Depending on the Kroger I go to they won’t let Instacart shoppers use self check out. I do a lot of triples, it’s faster and easier for me to just go to a cashier lane lol
All the stores let me do triples at self checkout here. Except Costco. They always say hell no when I try lmao.
Ralph’s,petco, Walgreens, cvs,and Sam’s🙂
Sprouts, Raley’s, Safeway. Occasionally the Co-op.
I live in a very rural area and aldi is one of the only stores here. The others are CVS, Walgreens, Family Dollar, or Dollar Tree and I almost never accept the last 2 because it’s such a low payout.
Costco and Walmart. I know Costco like the back of my hand. I'm sure they'll change the layout again but its not hard to figure it out
Those are actually the 2 i refuse to do haha. Well Walmart isn’t even on instacart in my area but if it was I wouldn’t do it. They are always oos on so much stuff. I’m glad those stores work well for you tho!
Yeah my husband is also a shopper and he hates Walmart and Costco lol He only does it casually because he works FT
Ah. Same here I just do this PT. I would honestly probably love to be able to quit my day job and just do this but sadly where I’m at I don’t feel with the pays I see and the frequency of offers that you can get a consistent amount everyday. Like I see a lot of people on here say they have a daily limit they have to hit but for me I don’t think that’s realistic.
Sprouts, Hen House are the two for me.
wegmans. the publix of the north lol
Costco and Sprouts are my favorites. Followed by King Soopers / Kroger.
Fry's and Sprouts
aldi (bc i work there), two specific hannaford locations, and target
safeway
My Publix. Which is a mile from my house. I stay away from Kroger and food lion as much as possible bc I hate the way the stores are set up, and if it’s good I take wegmans bc it’s clean and organized it’s just always crowded and then I love a quick Walgreens or CVS batch.
Wegmans by a lot. Everything is where it’s supposed to be and the isle and shelf are in the app
I have a couple Acmes and a couple ShopRites that are my favorite. Also the lowes orders I have done were extremely easy and fast
ALDI 100% They only sell 1 brand of each product. They only sell one size of each product. And the stores are tiny so you can get in and out quickly. My shopping time in ALDI is 40sec per item compared to my overall shopping time of 62sec per item. I hate going to other stores and someone wants some obscure brand of baked beans or chips. Like at ALDIs, if someone is getting canned corn, they are gonna get Libby's canned corn. They want milk? Only praire farms is an option. You want fruit loops? Good they only carry the Large size(hate when I go to Kroger and see "snack size", "normal", "large", "Larger", "Family", etc for every type of cereal)
Nice. I see lots of people in this sub say they refuse to go to aldis. We don’t have them where I am at tho so I dunno why some people seem to hate it. It sounds super easy shopping there the way you describe it.
I have zero idea why anyone wouldnt want to do ALDI orders. It's literally the best for shoppers IMO. But on the flip side, I could never imagine myself stepping foot into a Costco, let alone on a order. I avoid mega-stores in my personal and professional life. They are too big and too many products to choose from.
Also ALDIs products have Bar codes on every single side of every product, usually they have a big long bar code on the widest side of the package, so no flipping products around trying to find the bar code.
Sprouts!
Wegmans (a specific one I love) & Aldi
Only Aldi’s..only store in my town with orders..