37 Male Instacart Fails That Will Make You Rethink Your Grocery Delivery Forever
Isn’t it wild how you can just tap a few buttons and—bam!—a stranger is hunting down your groceries like some sort of supermarket ninja? Instacart makes it easy, yet sometimes those personal shoppers go rogue in the most baffling, hilarious ways imaginable. Ever ordered an electric toothbrush and ended up with a wireless mouse? Or asked for menstrual cups and got… well, something else entirely? Trust me, you’re not alone in scratching your head wondering “What just happened here?” Behind the scenes, these shoppers are juggling tight deadlines, unfamiliar store layouts, and whatever “creative” substitution impulses strike them. The result? A merry collection of head-scratching moments that’ll make you laugh, groan, and maybe double-check your next order. Curious enough to dive into the chaos? LEARN MORE
It’s sort of a modern miracle that you can open an app and just have a person do your shopping for you, never mind the pretty exploitative labor practices. If you have happened to use a service like Instacart, you may also be aware of the fact that sometimes one’s personal shopper can start making “interesting” alterations.
So if you were looking to be confused and perhaps irritated at the same time, we’ve gathered some of the funniest posts from folks sharing the shenanigans their Instacart shoppers have gotten up to. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and tales in the comments down below.
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I ordered a new electric toothbrush and I guess they were out and it got replaced with a wireless mouse
I ordered a saalt brand menstrual cup, only item, $35, and homie dropped this off
Someone reads through your list, looks for a reasonable replacement if something is unavailable, checks out with a company issued card, and brings everything to you. In practice, that someone is a real person moving fast through a store they may not know well, trying to satisfy a stranger’s specific instructions, a ticking delivery window, and their own performance rating all at the same time. That is where things start to go sideways.
When this man tried to replace a bag of frozen red and green peppers for a singular Strawberry milk… like can we please for the love of g-d stop this nonsense
This reminds me of the time I used Instacart and ordered Almond Milk. Apparently there was no more left (which I found very hard to believe). He subsituted it with a single almond.
literally drove to the store in the middle of the night to prove that he did not look.
I once canceled a giant order when I saw they assigned me a male shopper. Canceled the whole thing. I just didn’t have the mental fortitude that day.
Dumped everything, Then he started cursing and bugged out sending crazy messages . He got fired
I can’t find my screen shot but I had ordered a sale item that was a $1 watermelon. They were sold out and instead of my alternative he picked a $43 WATERMELON. HOW.
I recently got a new job in the bakery of a grocery store and this (male) doordasher comes up asking where the pillsbury cookie dough is, I tell him to check in the coolers near where the dairy was and he asked me to check in the bakery freezer (where it wouldn’t be anyway) and when I repeated myself he got all huffy and “this is freaking bull” and clicked item not found or whatever.
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