It’s good you tip above avg but there is still someone out there risking life and limb of themselves and maybe their family. And like someone else said how much would it take for you to do the job. That’s about what you should pay them. Or more if you can afford it since others don’t tip as well.
It’s $3. I don’t accept anything less than $8 or more than 5 miles. My acceptance rate is like 22% lol.
BTW- you get some ridiculous offers. I had one last week going to Walmart and picking up 104 items for $3.75. Ya OK, I’ll get right on it.
Sobeys reinstated a 2.50/hr one about a month back
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I went 45 minutes outside the city in a townhouse and looked at probably 10-15 and applied to a bunch, only this one accepted me.
That’s approx:
Rent $2,100
Food $800
Cell Phone ~$100 (I’m on my parents family plan and pay them six months at a time)
Utils ~$200
Cable ~$120
Car Insurance ~$150
Renters Insurance ~$20
Gas/Tolls: $40 (driving about 270 miles a month)
= $3,530
Plus a few random purchases here or there for household items.
So when you go to the grocery store or any public place of business, are you tipping everyone you see? I mean, they’re all working for far less than what you deem a reasonable amount, risking life and limb to keep the shelves stocked and to man a register.
Or since you’re going in person, do you draw the line of responsibility just on the other side of any personal culpability?
I’ve started tipping those counter tip jars everyone has now and pre virus I didn’t. I also don’t use the self checkout. As far as tipping the checkout people, no. It’s not allowed and they have cameras so I’d rather not get people fired. I do try to responsibly shop and only buy from the better options I have then say Walmart even though it would be much cheaper.
Also im not rich and make about 2k a month after taxes and just getting by myself. If I could I’d be tipping more and when I do use services which call and allow for a tip I try to be overly generous when I can. Really I could not afford instacart. Like im a penny pinching coupon deal shopper.
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Can’t eat or drink through a mask. Dunno how anyone can expect anything else in a bar or restaurant.
8 on 32 for outdoor dinner tonight. Nice separated table. 55F. Did the 4pm thing to ensure low population.
Can’t use instacart. Wife 
Wegmans. Not going would be like cutting off her right arm.
Wegmans is on Instacart, if you aren’t aware.
It can’t be that dangerous to just go to the grocery store. I’ve been probably an average of 2x a week the entire pandemic. Know what you need and get in and out as fast as possible. Avoid people. It has worked for me so far. Getting out of the house isn’t terrible for mental health either.
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I’m more impressed with $32 for what I presume was dinner for two at a sit down restaurant. Seems incredibly cheap.
Last time I went because I needed damn stamps for business things the lady in front of me was coughing and hacking with no mask and was there to return a fucking can of soup because she thought it was on sale and got charged full price.
Also, ordering stamps from the UPSP website takes like a week lol.
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Semi-grunching, I don’t use instacart or similar services, but I did order a pizza tonight from the local pizzaria, I went and picked it up and tipped 20%
Pub. Most expensive thing on the menu is a $22 steak I think.
I had a $10 cheesesteak. She had Fajitas. We both had soft drinks. I rarely drink. If it’s a nice meal she will have wine. But tonight it was “it’s over 50F so we better go” we splurged a little at the nice Italian place across the street last time a couple of weeks ago.
Plus we each had leftovers. We will usually have an appetizer but they have a limited covid menu and our favorites weren’t on the list tonight.
Back to tipping, the first hair cut I got after 4.5 months this summer I tipped 20 on top of 17 or whatever. They’d been completely shutdown since April. Just a Supercuts chain.
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I’ve also been doing my own shopping. I work remotely and live alone so it’s nice to get out and the few people I do come into contact with would much rather run into me than someone who’s already came into contact with hundreds of other people that week.
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I haven’t got my hair cut this whole time and have also let my beard grow. My wife humors me saying my hair looks like JTT but I know it’s more of a Frank Gallagher look I have going.
Outside of tourists, Czech Republic isn’t a place where much tipping occurs but I’ve been doing so at my regular hangouts during the pandemic when I go. It means a lot to them when so many have been closed for so long.
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Oh ya I tipped $25 on a $40 haircut in June because I knew I wouldn’t be back for a while and wanted to support the person who normally cuts my hair as I’ve been with her for 4~ years.
I order food on amazon fresh and my order is always $35-40 and I tip the recommended $5.
I’ve been tipping slightly more when I occasionally have picked up food but its like instead of tipping change I tip a dollar so its not much.
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I stumbled upon this thread. I have done some Instacart during the pandemic (Souther Cali), so I can give some accurate anecdotal information there. There is some variance, but on average without tips you can expect to make $10-12/hr (this includes driving time, shopping, loading your car, unloading, etc). So if it is no tip and the order is $20 it will probably take you ~2 hours and if $30 it will probably take you ~3 hours, etc. etc. This of course falls apart a little on the bottom end because the minimum order is $7, so a 10 minute or 30 minute order will net you the same, but I think you all get the point.
Also, this is all before expenses. I haven’t done the math, but between gas and wear and tear on your car, and everything else, there is serious expenses involved.
My goal is to cherrypick orders with good tips to double the hourly. When we look at an order in the app we see the total amount and how much of it is tip. So I am looking to take an order where half of it is tips and figure in the long run this will get me up to ~$25-30/hr.
One thing I will say though is that they will normally batch orders, and I have noticed they always batch good tip orders with no/bad tip orders, so if you tip good you are likely subsidizing someone who isn’t. So don’t think I am tipping $20 and I know it is batch orders and the other guys probably are too, so this driver is going to make $60 on this order, because that NEVER happens.
Also, people with higher ratings get first shot at orders, so obviously the highest rated people are poaching the good tip orders. So if you don’t normally bother to rate, you should and you should give a 5 because it is important. And I would recommend not giving any rating below 5 (especially a 1) unless you really hate the shopper and want to destroy their lives, because you really could be.
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