Instacart

“spends hundreds of millions to block minimum wage pay regulations in any municipality”

“I have been thinking recently that I will stop using it based on the decline in quality.”

“the service is not all that expensive”

“I use Instacart to deliver 1-4 items for me instead.”

“The service provides a tremendous value, the issue is just the marginal cases where the quality control is poor.”

“It's fantastic when I travel. I usually book a hotel or AirBnB with a kitchen and then use instacart.”

“The grocery platform of Instacart is better”

“I stopped using them when they switched to instacart -- the instacart shoppers really don't care about service”

“non-existant for anything that isn't routine or touches on allegations of fraud or misconduct.”

“I get much better service too, she knows my preferences and also does the inventory beforehand”

“Instacart is profitable, yea? So they don't want to provide a better quality service”

“they were invaluable during the pandemic”

“Instacart specifically makes no sense because stores usually do it for free if you can tolerate next-day”

“their dilution was insane, looked to keep going, and the valuations were absurd at the time already”

“DoorDash and Instacart are godsends for families on the go who don't have time to do all this stuff anymore.”

“I judge that the 30 minutes it can take to do groceries is better spent doing other things with my life.”

“Infant+Costco+Instacart is a game changer. There is a life before and after this.”

“It's clearly valuable over shopping yourself for a lot of people”

“In my experience its significantly more expensive for groceries: up to 20% for items + service fee + subscription + tip.”

“I am a generally happy customer of both parties for years now”

“their prices are generally better than Amazon groceries”

“Instacart offers a ton of cheap alternatives.”

“I rely on Instacart as I live alone and can't drive anymore”

“roughly 75 percent of the items in identical Instacart baskets purchased at the same time varied in price from one shopper to the next”

“Don't know what I would do without Instacart.”

“The fact that I can shop Costco via Instacart was a gamechanger for me.”

“True, but at higher prices (and with delivery fees), which somewhat defeats the purpose of the cost savings at Costco.”

“you can avoid the in store experience if it isn't for you, and in fact get the stuff you want delivered to your door in a short period of time”

“pit laborers and consumers against each other rather than improving the system”

“It is not an uncommon occurance for someone to order a single thing, and that thing to be out of stock, but such a scenario requires dancing with the llm every time”

“it's cheaper and higher quality than most other options”

“Every one of them classified as an independent contractor by companies”

“the FULL invoice (very hard to locate!) show a mysterious service fee of $3-6.”

“when something looks good, I can have the ingredients to make it delivered within the hour”

“If you use instacart at all, something tells me you're already divorced from the concept of affordable groceries”

“now Instacart serves the same sector in a way that actually works robustly and profitably”

“the person doing the shopping frequently didn't know where something was”

“gives me Instacart for cheap, so I put those savings into the tip”

“some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next”

“I can get food delivered for less than it costs to actually go to the mainstream grocery stores”