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To me, the dealbreaker is the fact that it's a percentage-rate fee as opposed to a flat-rate fee. I was able to justify spending extra for Google Express as lon
by sushid 10y ago
To me, the dealbreaker is the fact that it's a percentage-rate fee as opposed to a flat-rate fee. I was able to justify spending extra for Google Express as long as I made a large order.
With Instacart, the pricing is extremely blurry with an added-on fee of ~20% or so. I can't justify spending $20 + 20% on groceries. I might as well as just order out every day.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoEspecially considering that with their competitor Peapod, the fee actually gets lower the more you buy.
- Splines 10y agoAgree. Maybe I'm not the target market, but it seems like it's charging a lot of money for not a lot of value. https://np.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5xj47l/ever_what_instacart_is_really_charging_you_in/ https://np.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5xj47l/ever_what_ins... Maybe I'm lucky that I live within walking distance of a grocery store, but I'd be hard pressed to pay anything more than $5 for someone to drive my groceries to me. I could afford to pay for it, but if I kept that mentality my finances would die the death of a thousand papercuts.