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An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt (www.businessinsider.com)

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An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt::undefined

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[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paying a contractor to have an employee drive to a grocery store, pickup $435 worth of groceries, drive them to you, unload them, then drive home would reasonably run $100. Many professional companies will charge that or more for 1-2 hours of employee time.

[-] cecirdr@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I think her issue isn't that she's paying more via fees and tips. It's that the store is charging her more for every individual item. One would expect to pay the shopper and delivery person for their effort. But realizing that the store is capturing most of that AND charging you more for every item on top of it seems to be the problem. The shopper, delivery person and the buyer are all getting shafted.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We've got a grocery store here in Canada launching a 'groceries Prime' subscription of $100 a year. As part of the marketing push they say you'll "pay in store prices, no hidden fees" on pick up orders, beat in mind they use their own staff for this, no outside shoppers or third parties involved. The implication I take from the ad being when I use their online grocery order app they are already charging me different prices, and hidden fees.

Here is the ad from my inbox.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Help your fellow canucks out and tell us who’s doing this! I’m happy to save myself some sanity and not attend the weekly superstore circus.

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