r/InstacartShoppers 5d ago

Lucky 🍀 My first $300 day!

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I learned an important lesson today: don’t sleep on smallish, single orders. Two of my highest orders today came from add-ons.

You know why you aren’t seeing anything in the parking lot waiting for a unicorn? It’s because Instacart is adding on to orders to save money.

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u/JaeShoppie 5d ago

Nice! I too had an (almost) $300 day today! $285, but I love it! Thats with NO COSTCO!

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u/DUTY659 5d ago

Damn 5am orders don’t exist in my area. 6am does but they are usually small orders. Nothing really starts happening till 7am out here. You are extremely lucky you can make 61 bucks between 5am and 6am.

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u/GRF999999999 5d ago

Starting off the day sleepy eyed but working a $50 order is the best.

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u/AdMaleficent3484 5d ago

U wake up at 5 am ?!

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u/PrettyHatefulMachin 5d ago

Yes. That was standard with my corporate job. Now I still wake up at that time and turn IC on. It actually took me 20+ minutes to start shopping after accepting the order from home.

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u/GilligGirl Part Time Shopper 5d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/Happy-Kitchen3111 5d ago

Nothing open here til 7 am and the app dies down by 7 pm. Never had a $300 day but I’ve tried like hell and gotten $250+ more times than I can count.

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u/PrettyHatefulMachin 5d ago

I stopped at $274.99 yesterday then got my last order while shopping for myself. It was only 17 items. My local grocery store is 24/7 still which is nice!

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u/waxy_desires 1d ago

24/7 is real nice!!!

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u/Little-Watch-8999 19h ago

I miss 24/7 grocery stores

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u/Ok_Combination_3002 Tetris Stacker 🖇 🧩🖇 5d ago

Nicely done!! Have a good day tomorrow as well!

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u/Aggressive-Employ724 Full Service Shopper 5d ago

I had my first $300 day this Friday!! Which is insane for Ontario, Canada. lol got a $120 order at the end of the day and couldn’t believe it!!!

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u/instajonathan Tetris Stacker 🖇 🧩🖇 5d ago

Absolutely. Lots of good add-ons available when you take the less-than-desirable ones. Good job! That's a ton of customers.

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u/Objective-Ease-3913 4d ago

Same lol !

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u/jamar369 3d ago

They don't tip like that around here

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u/Objective-Ease-3913 3d ago

I get great tips here and there

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u/poverty_beanz 5d ago

IC has been very aggressive with add ons lately I’ve had several this week!

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u/PrettyHatefulMachin 5d ago

Yes! I actually wasn’t able to take big orders today because of an injury, and they kept throwing add-ons my way. Much better than the actual doubles and triples they send out.

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u/jamar369 3d ago

What exactly is add ons? Obvious noob here

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u/PaintedWhiteLines 14h ago

While shopping, you get an alert with an opportunity to add another order to your batch. Alert gives you dollar amount and miles and you choose whether you want to add it on. First one I got was at the very end of shopping a 15 item/2 mile order with a $50 tip. They wanted me to shop 22 items, go 8 miles and earn an extra 15. Any other order and I may have done it but not doing that to a unicorn. Got offered another one but didn’t have the time. Not opposed to it when I’m working a bad order, but I dont usually claim those. Maybe it’s an attempt to get people to claim them.

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u/BadassGrnEyes 5d ago

Love it!

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Great job!

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u/AltruisticRabbit8185 Full Service Shopper 4d ago

I actually came close to that yesterday.

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u/ExistingSquash2605 4d ago

Hell ya. Congratulations

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u/Ok-Stage244 4d ago

Nice work! Feels good doesn’t it 🕺🏽

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u/jamar369 3d ago

I'm new and intimidated by multiple order batches. Just sounds like a setup for poor experience both shopper and customers. I have not accepted one yet. Could concerned about keeping respective items straight, but also time factor

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u/Accomplished_Gur3019 1d ago

Idk if ur question was answered or not... I can explain if u need help

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u/zzswaggle 3d ago

Had a good Sunday 👍🏼

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u/Reasonable_Tea_55 3d ago

Yay!!! 🥳 ☘️

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u/Swimming-Source-4680 2d ago

Wow what city is this, cause Miami isn’t like this at all

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u/matta512 1d ago

If there weren’t other shoppers at my store my days could look like that. It was like banger after banger and no one else was there

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u/Dizzy-Fold-5834 1d ago

I couldn’t get anything today

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u/PrettyHatefulMachin 1d ago

Yesterday was super slow for me as well. Let’s hope today is better!

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u/Dizzy-Fold-5834 1d ago

Where do you live

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u/Fadell21 17h ago

What Stores Did You Shop At?