Is Shopping For Instacart Worth It? (2024)

Is shopping for Instacart as a full-service shopper a good side in 2024 and beyond? In this complete guide I review pay, shopper bonuses, incentive programs and more.

🖥Video Chapters🖥
0:00 - Perks Of Shopping For Instacart
0:42 - Full Servicing Shopping & Pay Structure
1:01 - Shoppers By The Numbers
1;26 - Home Screen & Batch Offer
2:05 - Zeroed Out Tip Protections
2:27 - Item & Unit Breakdown
3:04 - Going Online & Offer
4:07 - How To Select Orders As An Instacart Shopper
5:42 - Shopper Bonus Pay
6:49 - Heavy Pay
7:12 - Challenges For Shoppers
7:56 - Shop Time Tips
8:47 - Cart Stars (Incentive Program)
9:40 - How Cart Stars Works
10:52 - How To Get More Offers (Eligibility)
12:04 - Verdict

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[MikeTalk]

Worth it for me. More time spent shopping, less time spent driving. Ability to block any customer. Repeat customer base. No AR to worry about.

[charlesmenifee]

I do it from time to time. If you’re selective you can end up with around $30 a hour on average. Sometimes you can make more if you get a Target, Sam’s or Costco. But you need to be in the right area at the right time. Night in the cold is busy.

[mclements]

I did instacart throughout COVID. I stopped cause I hate the thirty bag orders on the 3rd floor apartment with no elevator orders

[Gig_DollarMan]

Definitely worth it if you’re in a decent market. It’s been my main source of income for 4 years. Some people don’t like it because the extra steps involved providing this service and some aren’t patient enough when it comes to waiting for orders. Diamond status is a must if you want to be a successful full timer for sure and you do need to be at the stores waiting or at least within 1-4 miles from the most popular ones. As you shop more and more orders you’ll start gaining priority to get those repeat customers that tip well too. Otherwise, people might say it’s not worth it, because they just don’t know how good it can be if they only waited 20 minutes and feel like they’re wasting their time already

[GigTax]

Definitely worth it. In my market, 60-75% of income comes from instacart. Love being able to make more money in less miles and having control over how much it takes to complete orders as opposed to waiting for food delivery.

[techvof]

#1 tip, deliver alcohol, batches range from 15 to 25 dollars all the time

[beckijuarez]

Hello I would like to say I ha e been an instacart shopper since 2021, and I've been a diamond shopper for like forever now, and I have yet to get priority batches or see batches even before a store opens, lies! Now this year instacart has been really bad, last couple years I was making at least from $800-$1000/wk and this year I'm lucky if I make $500, that's a drastic cut in pay!!!

[luisr]

Instacart at wholesales like Costco, BJ’s and Sam’s have many high paying orders a day. Some ranging from $50 to $100 and some even over $100 and $200 per batch. Of course almost the whole pay is costumers tip.

[brroookkeee]

I see a lot of promos for Sunday afternoons between like 4-8pm and it’s $4 extra an order. I started doing instacart a month ago and have only done 5 orders. I don’t get a ton per order but it sucks that I’m seeing orders where the store is nearby but then the customer is 30 miles away! I just don’t want to make the trip and pay the gas for a $20 order. I am learning and stay local to a few stores and wait for 2 shops and deliver for at least $25

[OneBiteJames]

I haven’t done instacart for a couple years. Back when I did it, the customer was able to change the tip amount AFTER the items were delivered.

I did a Costco order once that had a $20 tip. I invested 70 minutes into getting to Costco, shopping and delivery. The customer took away the tip after and I only received the $25 normal cost.

That was my last instacart I did.

[chilangoforever]

I was just removed from the waitlist 🎉 I'm waiting for my instercar card to try this 😊😊

[magellanmax]

Shopping for Instacart is worth it if you're quick on the trigger by keeping your app open and looking at it. And opting in for prescription delivery, frozen items & alcohol shop and deliver has good money in it.

[voramai]

Yesterday was the worst day on Instacart. Says 9 miles between 2 batch. 2nd back took me 65 miles out to another State! I was furious! Not that ai can just pull over and stop to talk an agent on the highway. They didn't give me an explanation or even compensate me for the unnecessary miles! Had to cancel. No address, no customer..NADA

[pattybilinovich]

In my market the orders are usually 2 stops, high mileage, large orders and rarely get up to a $1.00 per mile.

[bradheld]

When looking at bonuses and incentives, it’s important to keep in mind that Instacart considers a batch to be one order even if it’s bundled so if you get a double it’s considered one batch.

So a guarantee of 60 dollars for six batches would be 6 that you accept NOT 6 deliveries necessarily

[jamminj]

Thanks for all your advice Mike. I just recently started DoorDashing, and when it's good, it's GOOD... but also some really bad offers/days as well. As a newbie, at first I was taking everything, but as I'm learning now I'm being more selective. After watching this vid I signed up for Instacart. I do like shopping and am very familiar with most of the stores near me. Hopefully it's profitable. But worried about a possible 4 cases of Costco water up 4 flights of stairs. I'm an old fart. LOL.

[frydemwingz]

my first instacart order was the customer cancelling as soon as I got to the store and was getting the first item. that's a great introduction. so my first order was me on the phone with the help desk, that left a bad taste in my mouth.

[coreylucas]

1/2 My shopping request are canceled by the customer because store has limited stock, I get 0 compensation and actually when I do shopping I’m not doing massive time consuming bulk, all my requests that I determined if it’s worth the travel time tip and pay plus there are tip baiters I’ve lost even though I get everything from the store to them on time I still loose money example - I went $10.00 for 4 items 2 miles, I delivered no issues I check all expiration dates and communicate with customers, Uber sends me notification of customer decided to tip you $4 instead, multi apping hasn’t helped me much but I continue onward

[iitzpepsii]

Depends on the location where you’re at and how much money you’re making after taxes NET income

To me if I’m not bringing home at least $600 take home a week it isn’t worth it especially if I’m going to be putting close to 2k miles on my car per month

[cesarepampena]

DoorDash is becoming Wannabee Instacart these days, which doesn't mix with how predatory their algorithms are against Dashers.