This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ashley Colon, a 23-year-old Instacart shopper from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Insider has verified her earnings with documentation.

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with an Instacart shopper in Oregon. He has shopped for Instacart for three years. He described what it's like shopping and delivering orders for ...

What are Instacart shoppers supposed to do if they can’t find items on customers’ lists? Well, a TikTokker named Emma Jane explained what she had to do on a recent shopping trip because a ...

On TikTok, people have been sharing their unsatisfactory experiences with male Instacart or DoorDash shoppers. Samantha Riccardi, an aesthetician and TikToker with more than 515,000 followers ...

I tried the Instacart full-service shopper side hustle for a week and didn’t hate it. I found the level of activity involved — shopping and loading at grocery and other types of stores — to ...

Delivery tip: Not the same as the delivery fee, but the tip option in Instacart is a fee that goes directly to your shopper or driver. (In most cases, the shopper and driver are the same person ...

“I just think we should make it to where men cannot be shoppers for Instacart or Doordash but that would be discrimination,” she noted. She shared that she eventually got a full ...

If you are not the CEO of DoorDash or Instacart, keep scrolling ... to make an update on your app where I can request a female shopper.” Riccardi explains that she just received a DoorDash ...

For quite some time now there's been lots of discourse on social media about whether or not men should be shoppers for grocery delivery apps like DoorDash and Instacart. One TikTok in particular ...

and a dedicated community of more than 600,000 shoppers picking and delivering orders. Over the last 12 years, Instacart has fulfilled more than 1 billion orders, making it possible for customers ...