I also am curious what the range of tips are, and the average tip. I wonder where I am compared to the average.

I've done it part time for almost 2 years alongside my 9-5. Mostly evenings with the occasional weekend day shift. There are a lot of terrible tips, especially on DoorDash. Drivers aren't forced to take any order so the no tip longer distance ones get passed around and sit for a while. But some drivers have the employee mindset and do take the bad ones as well.

I'd say a $4-$5 tip for 1 person food is plenty to get it delivered quickly unless you order from a terrible restaurant (mall food court, area with lots of traffic, or place that's super slow/disorganized) or possibly if you live in a location that's out of the way and not near many restaurants(because we don't get paid to drive back). Maybe double it if the weather is so terrible that the driver is risking their life to get you your food.

A good tip would be $10+, people who order a lot of food and still tip ~20%. But there are nights where I never see one that good. Tips were definitely better the few months after the pandemic. Better in the Atlanta area than the St.Pete/Clearwater area.

They also sometimes make us place the order to force restaurants onto their app. So if you inadvertently order from one of those there's a bigger chance the order could go wrong. It probably would be the ones that say 50 minutes+ delivery time.

Instacart I've done maybe 10-15 shops but it doesn't seem like they pay any better for the additional effort except during peak times. They don't send shoppers the orders 1 by 1 they're just up for grabs. So we have to sit there and stare at the screen hoping to be the first person to see a good one, which I don't enjoy doing.

Isn't door dash the one who was scamming tips? I always did no tip and tipped cash. Never worked either but kinda tempting for something to do when bored.

Tipping in cash definitely pays the driver the most. And you're probably helping out a driver who's making a lower hourly/needs the money because they took your order anyway.

Doordash used to lower the driver pay $1 for every dollar the customer tipped. Customer tips $0 they pay $5 a delivery. but if they raised the tip to $4 or $5 the delivery pay part dropped to $1. Technically they weren't stealing the tip, but they were pocketing the extra by paying the driver less.



Grubhub is kind of doing it now. They play around with the minimum pay based on driver supply and demand, right now in my area it's $7. So anything from $0 to a low $3.xx tip would pay only $7, unless there was something else that made the order undesirable and forced them to pay more.

This is what I've been doing with the Walmart+ deliveries, but my last 2 orders before The Storm of the Century ended up getting canceled and when I called they said they couldn't find a driver. So, I'm not sure if it was because of so many people stocking up prior to the weather or if they're looking at the no tip thing and saying nahhh. I wouldn't think Walmart+ would allow orders to go undelivered since it's part of a paid service, but I don't know.

I always consider not tipping because I wish these companies would just pay their ****ing employees a good wage in the first place, but I can't do it.

Walmart grocery delivery used to be there was no place to leave a tip in app/website until after the delivery, then you could add it.

In the last 2 months or so they changed it and now you can add tip before hand, even if minimum and then adjust after if you want to.

AFAIK and what it says on the WM site, the Postmate drivers get 100% of the money that you tip on the WM app/site. So I don't know why you would want to tip cash.

Besides the point that probably 8 months ago they changed the policy where you do not have to sign for orders and can check the box to have order left at the door. Which is what I do 100% of time. Why would you want to have face to face contact with a stranger during Covid when its so easy not to.

That's obviously messed up but in one way or another pretty standard everywhere in the service industry.

Question, I use instacart and consider myself a very good tipper (usually 25% so around $30 on a typical order). I feel that someone actually shopping for me, and delivering bags of groceries to my door during a pandemic, is worth more than 5 or 10 bucks.

My question is, can shoppers see my tip history before they accept my order? I always wonder if it makes me more likely to get a shopper if they are scarce, or if it makes shoppers try harder to locate all my items.

The driver can see the tip you put on the current order in advance. If you don't tip until afterwards it looks like a no tip order and might take longer to get a shopper. Once they accept they can also see how many times you've shopped before. Don't think the past tips would show up though.

They design the system to severely punish shoppers who get bad or even 4 star ratings. So only 5 star shoppers and new shoppers would be able to see your order. It would never last more than a couple of seconds with a tip of $30. There could be a problem if they combine you with another low paying order that's been sitting around, or someone takes it when they're not quite ready to go(possibly working a different app) because the payout is good.

I have heard there are bots for shoppers that scoop up orders over a certain amount immediately for a weekly subscription fee, but Instacart has cracked down on some people who use them.

Henry?

Shopper can't see basically anything except:

how much they'll make (broken down between insta + tip)
how many items
what store
how far your house is from the store

There's no history record of any sort.

Leads to some awkward situations where shopper has a bad experience with a customer (say, customer is overly picky, or doesn't respond to questions, or revokes a tip, or whatever), because shopper/customer can't block each other from matching again.

I do insta and dd. Make from 20 to 25$ an hour before gas. Good job for someone w little education.

Amazing looking back at it. I was such a noob taking any old order that came along. I am much more selective on which orders I take now and I make b/w $20 and $35 an hour b/w Instacart and Dashing.

ProblemPlaya
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I'm fairly certain the new guard does not care. Certainly people could put two and two together, pun intended, and figure it out.

Wow, okay. This explains a lot.

Yep.
Thanks, McLovin, but I wish you had tipped us sooner so I could have ignored someone who had already made my Ignore List. Would have save me some annoyance--though obviously less than previously or this reincarnation would have made my list prior to right now.

Keep being ignorant. Lol derp y does the usps need to advertise ? derp

Oh no my safe space has been invaded! ::cries::

A guy I used to work with at a hotel did Door Dash part time and left his car running while making a delivery at an apartment complex one time and it was stolen. I don't think he ever got it back or they found out who did it from what I remember. Yes he was an idiot.

You seem smart