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You should not apply to deliver for Instacart unless they get this fixed, and on the May 1 strike, you should not use Instacart either.ġst. It’s a shit job with no benefits and not even a guarantee of minimum wage, from a company that claims to be worth $8 billion but cannot even fix its bot problem. Instacart is making a big deal of their hiring a quarter million delivery drivers, but they’re not actually “hiring” them. “Selling or purchasing batches is not an authorized use of the Instacart platform and is a violation of our Terms of Service.” “We have several robust security measures in place to ensure the security of the Instacart platform,” the company said in an obviously false statement to TechCrunch. Instacart seems to know they have a problem, as evidenced by messages TechCrunch acquired seen above. This is because instacart shoppers are paying third party apps aka bots to steal all the good, high paying batches.” Or let’s say if you’re fast enough, you click on the order and click ‘accept’, a window pops up that reads ‘oh no, looks like this order has been taken’. If there are any, when you see it, it’s gone within a blink of an eye before we can even click on it. “Now all of sudden we are not seeing any orders available. “Up until some weeks ago, Instacart was BOOMING with orders due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” she writes. On the petition Ban Instacart Bot Shoppers, delivery worker Melanie Ibarra describes it firsthand.
#Instacart batch grabber driver#
The swiping of money from undocumented workers is only one sad side of this bot operation, as one Instacart driver told TechCrunch that the Ninja Hours site “was always written in Spanish - really targeting the Latino community.” The animated screenshot above from TechCrunch shows how the scam is stealing orders.