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Those are some very tight time estimates. I suggest you take a stopwatch with you next time you shop for groceries.
Also, you're ignoring the markup Instacart adds to items (last I checked, 10-15%).
Also, mileage is currently 67¢/mile, not 0.7¢/mile.
Yeah the times I tried to keep minimal
There is no markup on items on stores like Kroger/Walmart the prices will all be the same as the shelf. If you buy from Publix they will be marked up. I assume because they know the customers are already willing to pay more.
Just for a heads up it was .67 cents in 2024, went up to .70 for 2025. Not sure if it's because cars kept going up or gas, I don't know how they calculate that.
Edit: I was running some on days off earlier this year to try to pay off some things. Kroger is one of the quickest stores in my experience, everything else goes up in time.
Thanks for the attempted update, but 0.7¢ - seven tenths of a cent - is still 1% of 70¢.
Last I checked, Instacart marked up all stores.
Maybe it does in your area. It's not hard to check though, price of item in Instacart app, matches price of item on Kroger app. Right now it's 2.99 for a gallon of milk on both at my local store.
If an item in store doesn't match the price it was in the app their app freaks out when you try to check out and denies the purchase. Stupid things happen all the time like that. Like if someone goes and puts a cheaper price on half the ground beef because they want to get it out of inventory, it doesn't match the price in app so you'll have to do a "replacement" of 80/20 ground beef for 80/20 ground beef which will notify the customer that they didn't have it and ask for approval if they didn't set their purchases to approve for replacements or what not. (I dont order off instacart, so I'm not familiar with that side as much, just the taking/picking up of the orders).