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

BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cecirdr@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • FunderPants@lemmy.ca ⁨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” . The implication being when I use their online grocery order app they are already charging me different prices, and hidden fees.

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    • Pheonixdown@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In the US, lots of stores are doing free curbside pickup on your orders, their employees pick it and bring it out to your car, in-store prices, no additional fees.

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      • Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I do pickup at my local ShopRite. Costs $4.99 unless you spend over $100 in which case it’s free. Saves me a ton of time and shopping via their app helps me find deals I might not find otherwise in a packed store.

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    • Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca ⁨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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  • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just to clarify, the majority of those markups are actually imposed by Instacart and not “the store” for what it’s worth.

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• buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But it’s not an employee, and they’re not getting the $100. It’s an independent contractor gig worker getting a fraction of that and the rest is going to a vampire.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “General Contractor” doesn’t mean someone that does random tasks on their own, that’s a “handyman”.

    General contractors usually just hire people to do the work and then pocket most of the money…

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    • buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you may have replied to the wrong comment

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you hire a general contractor and they send someone out, that individual at your house doesn’t get the $100 either.

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• Docandersonn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just a heads up, General Contractor is a term for someone who oversees contract construction projects, e.g., remodeling your kitchen. They’re licensed and insured (usually) professionals.

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