Make Over $1000 a Week Working These Grocery Apps

Food delivery slow? Try grocery shopping for customers!

In times when food delivery can run slow, especially during the summer months, it’s nice to know you can always count on grocery shopping/deliveries to pick up the slack. People gotta always get food and toiletries from the grocery store, right? (As a matter of fact, usually, every summer I experience what’s referred to as a “summer slow down.” But this year, now that most apps have added grocery delivery, I didn’t experience a slow down this year. In fact, I made more money this summer than I normally do in the fall or winter).

These apps discussed below have always gotten me through when things are slow in food delivery. Without further ado, let’s jump right in on how you too, can make over $1000 a week working the following grocery apps:

Uber

At the time of this writing, Uber had acquired Cornershop. Cornershop was an on-demand grocery delivery application online that operated across the United States, Canada, Columbia, Brazil, and Peru. They delivered pharmaceuticals, fresh vegetables, pet supplies, beauty products and home use products from over 3,000 stores, which included supermarkets such as Soriana, Costco, City Market, HEB, and Chedraui. (Currently, Cornershop just merged with Uber and it’s all in the Uber platform now).

At that point, not only were drivers able to do food delivery with Uber Eats, but they could now shop for customers at various grocery stores like Randalls and Costco.

Doordash

With Shop & Deliver, patrons may order from retail, convenience, or grocery stores, and have it delivered directly to their doorstep. For Dashers, this means you shop for the patron’s list of items inside the store, pay using your Red Card during checkout, and deliver their order. The orders provide many benefits for Doordash drivers:

• Be paid more for orders, as compared with restaurant delivery orders
• Make money during off-peak times so you do not need to schedule the day around the dinner or lunch rush
• Do not wait for an order when you perform the shopping

Video courtesy: Pedro DoorDash Santiago YouTube Channel

Doordash recently added a new perk that if you complete 13 shopping orders with at least 95 percent fill rate they will allow you to “Dash Anytime.” That means you don’t have to schedule yourself to dash or wait for your zone to turn red… a great incentive!

Favor

If you happen to live in Texas, Favor is a must! This platform is the easiest way to get any store or restaurant in Texas delivered quickly. I use Favor to shop at Walmart and pick up orders curbside from HEB grocery stores. At the time of this writing, drivers weren’t able to know how much the customers were tipping upfront as with other apps, but in my experience, customers on this platform are always very generous. (Currently, they started adding upfront information).

Spark

Recently, Walmart acquired Spark. On the Spark Driver app, it’s possible to deliver or shop for patrons of Walmart and other types of businesses. All that’s needed to get up and running is a smartphone and a car. Basically, when you pick up an order through the Spark app you head to the requested Walmart location, park in the curbside pick up area, pop the trunk, wait for an associate to load your trunk with groceries, and deliver them to the customer. Easy as pie!

Shipt

What: Shipt pays shoppers to shop for and then deliver groceries

Expected rate of pay: $7 to $20/delivery

Commissions and fees: N/A

Available: Nationwide

What are their requirements: Shoppers must be 18 and up; have a valid United States driver’s license, car insurance, a reliable car; capability of lifting 40 lbs.; smart phone (Android or iPhone); shopping experience and insulated cooler bags.

Instacart

This platform partners with the most sought-after regional and national retailers like ALDI, Albertsons, CVS, Costco, Loblaw, Kroger, Sam’s Club, Publix, Wegmans, Sprouts, etc. Their marketplace offers over 900 trusted local grocers and retailers customers love.

Instacart shoppers can expect to be paid between $5 and $10/ delivery, for an average of $17/hour including tips.

Ready to Start Your Own Grocery Delivery Business? Get Started With Dumpling

Dumpling helps shoppers launch their own grocery delivery businesses, providing payment processing, marketing, and various support services for a charge.

Expected rate of pay: set by personal shopper

Commissions and fees: $19.99 + 3.9 percent credit card processing charge on every order. (Also, customers pay a 5 percent processing fee)

Available: Nationwide

Shopper requirements: 21 and up

The website works similarly to Instacart in that you’ll receive a credit card to be used to purchase groceries and it’ll help to book clients.

But, where your availability of jobs and pay is up to the website when working for Instacart, with this platform, it is all up to you. With Dumpling, personal shoppers work for themselves. The app is just a tool to purchase to launch and run your own grocery delivery business.

With this platform, you choose how much you want to charge to shop; what grocery stores you are willing to shop at; and when you are available.

Dumpling charges personal shoppers $19.99 to set up their account. For this, you receive business cards, a credit card, business coaching, a listing on their website, and accessibility to the website’s search engine and app to communicate with and book customers.

Also, there are continuing transaction charges of 3.9 percent on every order. If you make grocery shopping a FT job, you might be better off with their “pro” plan that charges a $29 fee per month, yet slashes the transaction charge to 2.7 percent.

They also charge a 5 percent fee to customers to pay for their service.

They also provide business coaching from other successful Dumpling shoppers, who are able to provide advice on methods of marketing your services, pricing your services, and creating a fantastic profile on both Dumpling’s website, as well as your own.

How it works: Once you receive a shopping gig, the platform advances enough funds to purchase groceries to the Dumpling credit card. Once the shop is done, it’ll charge the client’s credit card for the actual amount spent, and the fees. If the client’s card does not have enough funds to pay, you are responsible for reimbursing Dumpling. But that rarely happens, and, thus far, they have reimbursed personal shoppers when it does. But they aren’t contractually obligated to do that. They claim that customer fraud losses are actually the responsibility of the personal shopper.

With that said, you’re building personal relationships with your clients; therefore, fraud losses are rare. One shopper on Dumpling claims that in over 400 transactions, she has only had one in which the client was slow to pay. Eventually, that client did pay, yet she had to ask repeatedly for her to do so. Obviously, she did not take any more orders from the scofflaw customer.

Just remember, it can take quite a while to build up a client base on Dumpling. Therefore, you may want to use the other apps mentioned above until you are able to get your business off the ground.

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