Shipt doesn't treat shoppers well - Anonymous employee Shipt Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2025
Anonymous freelancer
Recommend
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Pros

You can choose when you work

Cons

They offer bonuses that are many times unobtainable. They're currently fighting me over paying a $65 bonus I've earned, not looking at the supporting documentation I've provided, not giving me a way to escalate my issue to a manager or even someone who is a native English speaker. I don't care that they offshore their customer service, but they clearly don't understand what I'm asking, and they're the most unhelpful people. They prey on people who need money. They have performance tiers for stats, but the rewards they give are miniscule. For example: 25 cents per gallon discount on fuel. If you use a specific app and go to specific places. Limit 2 fillups. I have a 13 gallon tank, so that nets me $6.50 IF those stations don't charge more per gallon than others. They only give enough time to grab and go, but if you want to give good customer service you have to take photos of available items and wait for responses. They also only pay for the time it takes to shop and deliver. I had one order, for 2 items at Target where I was given 2 minutes to shop. I can't even walk from my car to the store in 2 minutes, let alone shop and then wait in the customer service line and walk back to my car. They're predatory and have lousy customer service. Their business model puts shoppers in the position of having to choose between giving good service and getting tips, and being quick so your base pay can be a living wage.

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Cons

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Pros

Flexibility—Could set my own schedule. It could also be fun, and sometimes quite rewarding when customers were nice and appreciative. I credit Shipt for introducing me to gig work, as it led me to other, better-paying gig jobs while keeping the schedule flexibility that I need.

Cons

Pay—it’s pretty much poverty-level considering how much work goes into shopping for customers. While I didn’t Shipt full-time, I DID put in at least 30 hours a week doing this shopping. For all of that, the most I made in any given year was $13,000! And I worked hard, got great customer reviews and consistently good tips. Occasionally, there would be newspaper articles about the random Shipt shopper who made $100,000/year! What such articles glossed over (this fact would be buried somewhere deep in the text) was that the shopper in question consistently worked some 80-100 hours per week. So if you broke down that fabulous six-figure pay by how much time the shopper was spending doing the work, it really doesn’t come out to all that much. The other pay issue worth mentioning is that in 2020, right when Covid was rampant, Shipt announced that they were “restructuring” the way they paid shoppers. What this translated to was that they were now paying us even less than they had previously done! That’s when I began to be soured on Shipt. I continued to do it for a while longer, but eventually went to other gigs that paid more.

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