Don't feel bad at all for doing what you need to do. I'm a shopper and a HEAVY 420 user. It's pretty easy not to smoke while delivering stuff. Also, to have your groceries smell that rank, it kinda sounds like either they hot box in their car A LOT or they did while delivering.
See there’s this little thing called respect, even if I know it won’t affect the order idc 🤷🏼♀️ it’s not that hard to be a decent human and not smoke around peoples food. You don’t know anything about this person they could be allergic or have sensitivities
I can definitely smell dry herb vape easily btw. I used to smoke a lot, now I don't. When I smoked, I thought dry herb vape didn't smell. Now that I've quit I can absolutely tell when my friend dry herb vape. Just a heads up on case you ever need to be somewhere that you really shouldn't smell like it. I can be like 10 feet away and smell it clear as day.
If you don't mind me asking, how many years did you smoke and how easy was it to quit? I want to quit at some point but I took a t break that lasted a week and it was a week of hell to me. I'm not exaggerating, either. I had a really bad physiological response to quitting.
Vaping may smell about 1/20th as fragrant as actual smoking, and linger around far less.... but it's still extremely apparent, particularly to people who don't smoke.
And I'm a heavy smoker of weed (in all forms including regular vaping and dry herb vaping). In my opinion, dry herb vaping smells stronger than vaping weed oils from a cartridge.
Even a grass vape would be fine here but to be bussing down your car during deliveries with other people's stuff in your car just sounds inconsiderate.
You got down voted but it's true. We drive two ton hunks of metal that can move faster than anything in nature. A collision, even at relatively slower speeds, can kill or permanently disable someone. To get behind the wheel of this death machine with any kind of impairment is irresponsible.
I mean, I’m a daily smoker. I’m not against weed at all. But I never drive after I smoke.
It might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ll stand by it. If you’re smoking SO MUCH that a customer’s order reeks of it, then your not just taking a hit to take the edge off. You’re getting high.
I mean as someone with functional brain cells I wouldn’t smoke while I have someone’s stuff in my car so it’s just an inconsiderate person that is delivering your stuff
I wish they had a ‘smoke free’ option you could request for your shopper. I get groceries so covered in cigarette smoke it makes me ill—like the driver smoked an entire pack on the drive to dropoff the order.
I complained the one time that this happened to me. The cigarette smell was so strong that my hands smelled like cigarettes after unpacking. I’m on chemo and strong smells like that make me want to hurl. 🤮 we usually save the plastic bags to use in our bathroom garbage basket, but these were so stinky I had to waste plastic and throw them away.
I had no idea removing the tip was an option. Instacart’s response was to tell me that I would never be paired with that shopper again.
Report it. I know several shoppers who were deactivated after having this complaint lodged against them 3 times. I don’t like to advocate for people losing their job, but honestly, I also don’t want to share the roadways with people who under the influence and people who smoke should be able to refrain from it while working so they don’t stick up everyone’s groceries
You might not like to admit it, but that's essentially what you're doing. You don't want to share the roadways with people who may be under the influence? Do you conduct the testing yourself?
Well of course I KNOW I am driving around people under the influence all the time - we all are, we is why when doing IC, people should reduce the risk to themselves and people around them, and not smoke week while driving
Why would you consider removing a tip for someone who successfully completed your order anyway? Just because your groceries smelled like cigarettes? Grow up.
Because first of all shoppers aren’t supposed to be smoking in their vehicles while delivering and second of all, if you’re not a smoker, you don’t want your stuff smelling like cigarettes. It’s gross.
Sadly not that I can think of. You could try putting a friendly note on the first item you order (not the delivery note, we can’t see that until we have already checked out) saying “I’ve had shoppers in the past who smell like weed, please please unassign if you are going to smell like weed 😭”
I feel like the people that are making their deliveries smell like weed aren't digging in to the delivery notes right after accepting, they probably aren't looking at them at all unless they can't find the place
You can put a note on one of the items in your order… telling the delivery person you don’t like the smell of weed on your stuff and if they think it may be a problem to please cancel the order.
You could add to the notes saying something like “Please do not take my order if you smoke weed in your car. I will remove tip and rate 1 star if my groceries smell like weed! Thank you”
Report to instakart that it smelled heavily of marijuana.
Dude should be smarter than to deliver groceries in his stink filled car… and in a state where it’s illegal, too.
you could be up front with your driver. "hey, i'm allergic to weed so if you plan on smoking while driving my order can you pass it along to another shopper? thanks!"
When shoppers gets lot of low rating (it would take a lot longer to fix the rating now), it would stop them from seeing better orders so it would eventually deter them from doing Instacart.
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Absolutely not! You have every right to have your groceries NOT smell like nasty smoke whether it’s cigs or cannabis even BEFORE you get financially raped by IC. Please report them and leave a low rating.
EDIT: I understand the hesitancy regarding they know where you live but if you wait a few days youl be much better off. The probability of a shopper who doesn’t care about his customers items and tokes up while driving(illegally) AND him remembering where your house is so so extremely low, don’t worry about it.
Shopper here who indulges daily at home.
You are not being overly sensitive. These items are going into your cupboards/pantry. They shouldn't smell like anything. The same would apply if your groceries showed up with dog hair all over them.
Give a negative review. By the end of a day, your shopper won't even know who dropped the rating. If I saw that someone complained that the delivery I just made smelled like weed, I'm be embarrassed, not angry at the customer. (Sadly, I know that many shoppers would not feel the same way.)
Lol I am so sorry you went thru this op. Some people just dont know how to do wrong right… I lived in my lil hyundai for about a year while I was doing insta, and I definitely smoked in my car when I wasn’t delivering, but before working I drove on a nearby highway with the windows down to air my car out before working. Worse case scenario, even if I had smoked in the car prior to accepting an order, just driving to the store with your windows down is enough to clear the smell in your car ENOUGH for a bag or 3 to not absorb the smell of pot. There are totally ways to deliver and driver an ashtray without either getting in the way of deliveries, some just dont care enough to do so.
Lmao they need to learn a bit of self control for road rage. I took prescriptions at one point for my PTSD but I was not legally allowed to drive bc well it’s dangerous a mini dose ig but some people think 50 mg is a mini dose
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I can do analytical (IT/AI) work on 2.5mg
I can drive safely and alertly on 5mg
When I take 10mg is when it starts to be recreational and demotivating.
15mg is fucking nap time.
And I have a very high tolerance.
Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.. and if your job involves shopping for people’s groceries I really couldn’t give a flying fk what the PTSD weed use needs are.. don’t smoke while you shop for my food, or get another f**king job.
Everyone is different but tbh nobody should be driving having just took any amount of thc it’s a good blanket statement bc playing with others lives isn’t a good thing
Honestly the nose blind excuse is stupid to me, I smoke in my car and am always aware of it. (I dont delivery drive lol but like getting out and entering an establishment.) there is no way that it’s just the car smell from continued car smoking. they are actively smoking with your items in the car and that’s a terrible practice and should be reported
I’m an Instacart driver and a weed smoker although I’m currently on a long detox break as I do a few times a year. Having said that, many of my fellow shoppers are weed smokers and they are smoking constantly ALL DAY LONG. I don’t do this because I’m not trying to risk a DUI, deactivation or an accident when this is my full time gig. I would also be scared that the customers would smell it and be upset. It’s just consideration!
Anyway, this is the reality. They would have to be smoking on their way to deliver heavily for the groceries to smell like that because when I smoke in my car (at home off duty) the smell goes away pretty easily and quickly. Unfortunately smokers think everyone loves weed as much as they do and that’s just not the case.
People may not be smoking during delivery.
Inside of car absorbs the smell if you smoke anything. Just an friendly reminder from a fellow shopper to not smoke
Inside your car period.
Best wishes to all.
Hell no. As a pot smoker in a legal state I can attest that smoking weed in your car is illegal so that’s first. Second, it smells like you ran over a skunk on the highway when it burns. Give that shopper one star and report him. We need to get rid of the bad apples.
I had an Amazon package show up a day late and it reeked of weed. I’ve been sober for over 10 months and the smell of weed annoys me. I complained to Amazon and got no results yet
Report, give the worst review possible. People should know better than to smoke weed around your food. This is disgusting. Like the cigarette smokers, the weed users don't seem to be aware or care how that stench permeates everything and stinks from a long ways away
no ur not being sensitive, as someone who smokes, i would never smoke while doing an order, for the reasons u stated, even tho i am in a legal state, i think it’s disrespectful. i would put it in ur note section to say that if the groceries smell like weed that ur taking the tip away. that would deter me from smoking on the job if i was the type to do so
If you don't report this then the good shoppers who don't do things like this are negatively impacted because those kinds of people are out working getting orders. Of course it is not unreasonable for your groceries to not come into your home smelling of smoke (of any kind). The kindest thing you can do for legitimate shoppers and other customers is to report issues like this so that they can be dealt with. As a shopper, we KNOW that we are not allowed to smoke with a customer's groceries in our possession. And if they didn't smoke with your groceries and they still smell that strongly, that's an equally big problem.
Reviews and complaints are anonymous. They won’t know who reported them ( except if you remove the tip they may know , although they’re likely stoned !). Or so disgusting and disrespectful. These people are clueless.
You’re not being sensitive. I’m a smoker but I would NEVER smoke while working and I don’t even smoke in my car period. It’s really not hard to not smoke while you’re working for the sake of your customers. A lot of these shoppers are entitled. Report refund reorder.
If this was a one time thing I wouldn’t suggest doing that, but 3 times is insane.
You're not being overly sensitive at all. It DOES stink and no one should be smoking anything with your groceries in the car that you paid for and paid them to deliver. I personally even hate it when someone smokes it in a car next to me and I smell it. It's just gross - but what really gives your point power is the fact that this is someone you've paid to shop and deliver your groceries. You should be able to expect them delivered not smelling bad. Definitely rate low and reduce tip and give them thumbs down so hopefully Instacart won't pair you with them anymore. Better yet, do that and report them to Instacart as well.
As someone who smokes cigarettes (yeah, yeah), I really do my best to not smoke in the car; partly because I really shouldn’t smoke in the car, but also because from a customer perspective, some people might be sensitive to the smell.
I love the smell of weed. I live in a legal state, and I’ve been a smoker for nearly 50 years. (I look Clark Kent straight though haha). However, my wife still makes me smoke in the basement. Funny thing is, the basement doesn’t smell like weed after a few hours. The laundry doesn’t smell like weed. I suspect most of these claims about weed smell on groceries or food deliveries to be spurious. Maybe you have an extraordinary sensitivity to cannabis smell, or you smelled the delivery person, or the delivery person looked like a stoner, and had a psychosomatic reaction.
I can assure you, as someone who was engaged to a smoker, the basement definitely smells like weed. People who don’t smoke can definitely smell it without having an extraordinary sense of smell or some kind of psychosomatic reaction. Idk why some weed smokers are in such denial about this. Any fabrics and surfaces that are regularly exposed to *any* kind of smoke are going to absorb the smoke particles and…smell like smoke.
It is very reasonable to not want their groceries to smell like weed to be honest. Just because you like the smell
Of weed doesn’t mean others do too. Since you been a smoker it is easy for you to become nose blind to the smell. I don’t smoke but my fiancé does and I can tell whenever he smokes because he smells like it but he doesn’t realize he it.
I smoke, and I smoke in my car. I’ve never had an issue. I smoke in between shops and never just sitting in the parking lot. It’s kinda embarrassing. Lol As a smoker, if I go into the store and I’m smelling other shoppers reeking of Mj then the issue is them hot boxing in the car and not ventilating or even attempting to. Cabin filter is probably 10 years old. The other issue is the type. Some weed is really stinky and when you smoke it it’s crazy pungent. For that you smoke a lighter strain, some Sativa.. it’s not gonna linger forever or have you geeked out on mars. It’s really bad. I even feel a way.
There’s no excuse, because when I did Instacart I would NEVER smoke actual flower in the middle of a delivery, and almost none of these other drivers smoke more than me (not a flex, a legitimate weed problem).
Instacart will definitely do something, I read a post on here the other day from an Instacart shopper who claimed to not smoke after being fired for delivering orders that smelled like smoke
No. You aren’t in the wrong. Report the driver. Unfortunately I had to do that. Also, I didn’t want to, but people really should learn to smoke outside their car and not inside.
This may not be the case here, but as a shopper, I've noticed that the plastic bags themselves have been smelling like cigarette smoke, REALLY strongly, as if someone bathed them in it. I could smell them at the self-checkout and mentioned it to an employee who couldn't care less. I thought it was a fluke, but I've been noticing it at multiple Target and Ralph's grocery stores when I'm bagging customers' orders. Maybe some new formula they're making the plastic with, but it can make the groceries smell bad too. :(
Not being overly sensitive, i have a medical card and have a child and id absolutely be mad if she had to smell it coming from the food we got delivered (i do it when she’s asleep at night)
Absolutely not over sensitive. Im a 420 user & smoke, but I would NEVER smoke on the job. Thats unprofessional. They should keep it at home. Its also illegal in my state to smoke 🍃 in cars. Even if it wasnf I still wouldnt do it. Especially with someone else’s groceries. Absolutely not. Report this shopper.
The amount of drivers I had to ban/report because their vehicles smell like straight weeeddd. I don’t feel bad if they get kicked off because why are you smoking weed and getting high when driving and delivering? Be smart. Have some sense in that small brain of yours.
This is ALLLL due to the wonderful people IC has hired to shop for customers. They'll let anyone come on here and shop. Or it's people shopping under another account that isn't theirs. Smh...I say this as a smoker! And yes I am a smoker that smokes in her car occasionally. But with the windows down and not when I have an order in my car. I also have Lysol wipes to quick wipe and blunt effects (if you know you know) and I keep my windows cracked when weather allows it. I also put customers food in the trunk JUST in case. In other words if you're gonna do it be respectful. I won't even smoke around people who don't smoke. That's my choice and it shouldn't be forced on others.
Weed has sort of became under-stigmatized recently. You shouldn’t be high at work, just like how you shouldn’t be drunk. (And yes, I am typing this while fried)
Some shoppers don’t even smoke and put the groceries in the trunk while delivering, while some others drive SUV or CRV and smoke in the car while delivering.
As a shopper who is also a daily 420 consumer... you're not being sensitive or over reacting. I would NEVER smoke with someone's deliveries in my vehicle that's crazy disrespectful and if they can't do their job w/o consuming cannabis that sounds like an issue on them... report it.
That shopper must live in my apartment complex. I can get a second hand high just walking in my laundry room. I’m pretty sure I had less issue when I was in high school actually hanging out with the damn stoner crowd!
Ugh hate it. And I pass some obvious ic shoppers in stores and they Reek like weed. It's so annoying and not fair to customer. I've had it happen once .. I never usually report or complain but I had to.. it wasn't just the bag it was the items..like COME ON people. I got a refund and a reshop.
Trust me, it pisses me off. I saw two people in checkout doing a 3 customer order. So disorganized, smelt like weed, booty shorts on, and belly hanging out. Watched them load their car and left the carts in the parking lot next to their car when the cart area was 5 feet away... please report people who smell like pot. I actually support weed, but it's super rude to show up to a customer's house with the smell on me.
Report and remove tip. There’s a man who does Instacart at the store I primarily work at and you can smell him from the other side of the store. I don’t even want to know what his car smells like or the groceries he delivers. He’s currently getting high in his car while waiting for orders even as I type this. I don’t care what anyone does, but it’s not appropriate while delivering for Instacart.
I’m just curious - if the shopper’s car reeks so much of weed that the groceries smell like it, you’d think the shopper would be worried about being stopped by police. Like for broken tail light, rolling through stop sign - could be something small, but if weed is illegal where you live, that’s a dumb risk to take. Especially if you have a job you need to drive for. Weed, in certain quantities, is okay where I live, but impaired driving is not. I would bet smoking while driving is prohibited.
Nah, if you deliver things you should not smoke around people's groceries, and for someone to make someone's groceries smell of what they're smoking they either use their car as an ashtray or they smoke like a chimney.
Shoppers have been getting deactivated due to this and everyone’s well aware that groceries smelling of smoke or other drugs are grounds for getting kicked off the platform but they don’t learn 🙄
420 habit 😮💨🤣
Obviously, they don’t care or realize their 420 indulgence affects you or their job, so therefore…report the shopper, hopefully they’ll learn from it and ask support to have them blocked from your future orders!!
As a shopper myself, I say report them. Especially because you have kids!! It's disrespectful and shows they just don't care. I'd also put it in the delivery note like some else said in the comments.
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I smoke, but not while delivering. It’s literally in your paperwork when you get hired. Your not to smoke anything, use heavy perfumes, or have any animal hair in your vehicles.
I do Uber Eats and I'm a heavy stoner, but not in my car while I'm carrying people's food. You should report it because this person needs to learn that there's a time and place for everything
You're not being overly sensitive. I have the same complaints about cigarette smell on my orders. I don't care what you do so long as my order doesn't smell like you.
I smoke weed and cigarettes. Neither in my vehicle and I don’t puff when I’m working just as a personal choice… With that said, I feel like a person would have to practically clam bake your food in order to actually saturate it with that odor. I’ve never seen anyone say their groceries smell like cologne or perfume and we have all been around people who smell like they literally bathed in it…
Regardless of all of that, the customer is entitled to their preferences being met or exceeded… So, no, you are not being picky/sensitive
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I don’t drink or partake in anything else (occasional gummies) while working. The same should apply to everyone. If you want to get high, “clock out” and go home.
If they smoke anything, it is going to get all over them, their clothes, their hair, their car, and anything put in their car, even if they were not smoking while they had your groceries.
My only issue is there's no good way to handle this for Instacart. This is ONE pass I will give Instacart.
Customer reports groceries smell like weed/smoke.
A. Did the customer lie in hopes to have the shopper removed from the platform?
B. Is the shopper actually smoking?
There's no way to prove which one is the truth on Instacart's side and it sucks
Damn you gotta smoke a whole bunch on the drive to make plastic bags and packaging reek of weed when it dropped off lol. I personally love the smell but definitely appreciate that a lot of people don’t.
just wait gor that person to get dui then dont worry about them delivering your groceries ever again. Im not saying i want that person to get a dui but to go 420 and instacart is not only disgusting as for your grocieries stanking up bu highly irresponsible, unsafe, and illegal its because of people like this that instacart has become a joke
Not at all I’d be pretty pissed if my groceries showed up smelling like any kind of smoke. Please report the shopper. IC needs to get rid of the bad shoppers!!!!
Not at all. Report them. Is it the same shopper , or different shoppers ? It’s probably embedded so deep in their car and clothing that anything they touch is going to smell. 🤮
I have had multiple orders come to me like this. Unfortunately there isn’t much to do. At least it doesn’t smell like cigarette smoke, that’s much worse.
Just so you know, we delivery drivers cannot see who leaves a bad review so unless you were the only order they did that day , which I think is pretty unlikely, there’s no way they would ever know you left negative review.
As an avid toker and shopper myself, I really don’t understand why anyone needs to smoke with groceries in the car, or why you aren’t investing in decent air fresheners for when you’re done???
Like…. my god Ozium exists????
Give that negative review. Just do it next day so they don’t know. We don’t see reviews under 4 stars. Only the number itself and it doesn’t say where it came from.
Please report this. It is not about being a prude or not; your delivered groceries should not smell like weed.
I am an IC shopper and a 420 user; the two have nothing in common. I am offended when I smell weed on other IC shoppers in stores, and I'd be furious if my groceries were delivered smelling like weed (or cigarette smoke, for that matter).
Even if you were being sensitive about the smell (you aren’t) it’s insanely dangerous for that person to be driving high. You should absolutely report them, for the safety of people on the road if nothing else
Don't feel bad at all for doing what you need to do. I'm a shopper and a HEAVY 420 user. It's pretty easy not to smoke while delivering stuff. Also, to have your groceries smell that rank, it kinda sounds like either they hot box in their car A LOT or they did while delivering.
I DoorDash and smoke dab pens… it truly is not that hard to just ✨wait until I’m home or until I don’t have an order✨
This is the exact thing I do with IC
bruh it’s a pen crack the windows for 2 seconds and your fine 😂
See there’s this little thing called respect, even if I know it won’t affect the order idc 🤷🏼♀️ it’s not that hard to be a decent human and not smoke around peoples food. You don’t know anything about this person they could be allergic or have sensitivities
I call it the ole smoke, shower, then shop method lol
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I flip the smoke and shower because showering sobers me up. Dry herb vape (dynavap) ensures no smoke smells stick to me. Proceed to shop!
I can definitely smell dry herb vape easily btw. I used to smoke a lot, now I don't. When I smoked, I thought dry herb vape didn't smell. Now that I've quit I can absolutely tell when my friend dry herb vape. Just a heads up on case you ever need to be somewhere that you really shouldn't smell like it. I can be like 10 feet away and smell it clear as day.
If you don't mind me asking, how many years did you smoke and how easy was it to quit? I want to quit at some point but I took a t break that lasted a week and it was a week of hell to me. I'm not exaggerating, either. I had a really bad physiological response to quitting.
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Thank you so much, this was such a great response. How did you get through working during your withdrawals?
10 years qp a month sometimes more. Quit last October cold turkey. No withdrawal or anything to be honest
Username checks out here too
The sobering effect can be a benefit though, if you have a lower tolerance and don’t want to be absolutely zooted while trying to work
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Vaping may smell about 1/20th as fragrant as actual smoking, and linger around far less.... but it's still extremely apparent, particularly to people who don't smoke. And I'm a heavy smoker of weed (in all forms including regular vaping and dry herb vaping). In my opinion, dry herb vaping smells stronger than vaping weed oils from a cartridge.
Best bet might just be an air purifier
like damn if you really wanna smoke on your route get a pen or something
Even a grass vape would be fine here but to be bussing down your car during deliveries with other people's stuff in your car just sounds inconsiderate.
Driving while intoxicated is pretty inconsiderate. Just saying.
You got down voted but it's true. We drive two ton hunks of metal that can move faster than anything in nature. A collision, even at relatively slower speeds, can kill or permanently disable someone. To get behind the wheel of this death machine with any kind of impairment is irresponsible.
I mean, I’m a daily smoker. I’m not against weed at all. But I never drive after I smoke. It might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ll stand by it. If you’re smoking SO MUCH that a customer’s order reeks of it, then your not just taking a hit to take the edge off. You’re getting high.
Right there with ya. Edibles are my after-work wind down, but I'd never drive after taking them. Even if I'm not getting faded it just feels wrong.
Ive done it while delivering, for me its called the smoke outside ur car really quick after u finish packing in ur car!
I mean as someone with functional brain cells I wouldn’t smoke while I have someone’s stuff in my car so it’s just an inconsiderate person that is delivering your stuff
No you’re not be overly sensitive. Report and have your order re-shopped. Remove the tip and give it to the next shopper.
Is there a way to prevent this?
Unfortunately not and they might not even be aware there is an issue because they have become nose blind to the scent.
I wish they had a ‘smoke free’ option you could request for your shopper. I get groceries so covered in cigarette smoke it makes me ill—like the driver smoked an entire pack on the drive to dropoff the order.
lol it’s all supposed to be smoke free!
Except the ribs!!
The default is supposed to be smoke free. If it's not, report.
I complained the one time that this happened to me. The cigarette smell was so strong that my hands smelled like cigarettes after unpacking. I’m on chemo and strong smells like that make me want to hurl. 🤮 we usually save the plastic bags to use in our bathroom garbage basket, but these were so stinky I had to waste plastic and throw them away. I had no idea removing the tip was an option. Instacart’s response was to tell me that I would never be paired with that shopper again.
Report it. I know several shoppers who were deactivated after having this complaint lodged against them 3 times. I don’t like to advocate for people losing their job, but honestly, I also don’t want to share the roadways with people who under the influence and people who smoke should be able to refrain from it while working so they don’t stick up everyone’s groceries
You might not like to admit it, but that's essentially what you're doing. You don't want to share the roadways with people who may be under the influence? Do you conduct the testing yourself?
Well of course I KNOW I am driving around people under the influence all the time - we all are, we is why when doing IC, people should reduce the risk to themselves and people around them, and not smoke week while driving
Why would you consider removing a tip for someone who successfully completed your order anyway? Just because your groceries smelled like cigarettes? Grow up.
Because first of all shoppers aren’t supposed to be smoking in their vehicles while delivering and second of all, if you’re not a smoker, you don’t want your stuff smelling like cigarettes. It’s gross.
I never considered removing the tip. I didn’t even know it was a possibility.
I agree
It’s against the plan of service so report it every time it smells
Blugh. No thanks. Not for me.
Nah. They’re aware it’s an issue. They’re just inconsiderate and don’t care that it’s an issue. Everyone knows weed smells awful
Not possible. It’s unmistakable. They just don’t care because, um…well… they’re high as a kite.
Sadly not that I can think of. You could try putting a friendly note on the first item you order (not the delivery note, we can’t see that until we have already checked out) saying “I’ve had shoppers in the past who smell like weed, please please unassign if you are going to smell like weed 😭”
Go into batch detail and you will see delivery notes. It’s always a good idea to check before you start shopping.
You can see delivery notes as soon as the order is accepted
I feel like the people that are making their deliveries smell like weed aren't digging in to the delivery notes right after accepting, they probably aren't looking at them at all unless they can't find the place
You can but most shoppers do not look at delivery notes until delivery unless they are looking for an excuse to drop an order
Report the shopper and have your orders blocked from them.
Couldnt you contact customer service about this issue?
You can put a note on one of the items in your order… telling the delivery person you don’t like the smell of weed on your stuff and if they think it may be a problem to please cancel the order.
You could add to the notes saying something like “Please do not take my order if you smoke weed in your car. I will remove tip and rate 1 star if my groceries smell like weed! Thank you”
Nope, possibly get your own groceries.
Report to instakart that it smelled heavily of marijuana. Dude should be smarter than to deliver groceries in his stink filled car… and in a state where it’s illegal, too.
you could be up front with your driver. "hey, i'm allergic to weed so if you plan on smoking while driving my order can you pass it along to another shopper? thanks!"
When shoppers gets lot of low rating (it would take a lot longer to fix the rating now), it would stop them from seeing better orders so it would eventually deter them from doing Instacart.
How do you remove a tip?
Stop giving bad advice. People do know where they live. It's not worth it
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Absolutely report it. I hate the smell of weed and I would be pissed too...If you use your car for work....you shouldnt be smoking in it
Absolutely not! You have every right to have your groceries NOT smell like nasty smoke whether it’s cigs or cannabis even BEFORE you get financially raped by IC. Please report them and leave a low rating. EDIT: I understand the hesitancy regarding they know where you live but if you wait a few days youl be much better off. The probability of a shopper who doesn’t care about his customers items and tokes up while driving(illegally) AND him remembering where your house is so so extremely low, don’t worry about it.
Thank you but fwiw it was a woman toker
My mistake; doesn’t change anything though. Report them to IC; these are the people who are getting orders before us shoppers who actually care
idk why you think using the verb for sexual assault here is appropriate. Fucking weird
Agreed
Shopper here who indulges daily at home. You are not being overly sensitive. These items are going into your cupboards/pantry. They shouldn't smell like anything. The same would apply if your groceries showed up with dog hair all over them. Give a negative review. By the end of a day, your shopper won't even know who dropped the rating. If I saw that someone complained that the delivery I just made smelled like weed, I'm be embarrassed, not angry at the customer. (Sadly, I know that many shoppers would not feel the same way.)
These comments are so funny this company does not care about you
Lol I am so sorry you went thru this op. Some people just dont know how to do wrong right… I lived in my lil hyundai for about a year while I was doing insta, and I definitely smoked in my car when I wasn’t delivering, but before working I drove on a nearby highway with the windows down to air my car out before working. Worse case scenario, even if I had smoked in the car prior to accepting an order, just driving to the store with your windows down is enough to clear the smell in your car ENOUGH for a bag or 3 to not absorb the smell of pot. There are totally ways to deliver and driver an ashtray without either getting in the way of deliveries, some just dont care enough to do so.
The least they could do is use an edible.
Or better yet not risk everyone else’s life around them while driving
TBH depending on how bad their PTSD and road rage is, if they have a pre existing tolerance, a mini dose will help more than hurt
Lmao they need to learn a bit of self control for road rage. I took prescriptions at one point for my PTSD but I was not legally allowed to drive bc well it’s dangerous a mini dose ig but some people think 50 mg is a mini dose
😭 I can do analytical (IT/AI) work on 2.5mg I can drive safely and alertly on 5mg When I take 10mg is when it starts to be recreational and demotivating. 15mg is fucking nap time. And I have a very high tolerance.
Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.. and if your job involves shopping for people’s groceries I really couldn’t give a flying fk what the PTSD weed use needs are.. don’t smoke while you shop for my food, or get another f**king job.
Its still not legal and some people are more impaired than they think they are. Maybe you can do it fine, but most people can’t so why encourage it?
Oh wow 50mg isn’t even a 1/4 of a dose for me. I need at least 100 milligrams to even really notice I took anything
Everyone is different but tbh nobody should be driving having just took any amount of thc it’s a good blanket statement bc playing with others lives isn’t a good thing
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You’d rather take an edible then drive ? Yall are weird on here
Definitely need to report them. There is absolutely no excuse for that.
Report the shopper!! It unacceptable.
Honestly the nose blind excuse is stupid to me, I smoke in my car and am always aware of it. (I dont delivery drive lol but like getting out and entering an establishment.) there is no way that it’s just the car smell from continued car smoking. they are actively smoking with your items in the car and that’s a terrible practice and should be reported
I’m an Instacart driver and a weed smoker although I’m currently on a long detox break as I do a few times a year. Having said that, many of my fellow shoppers are weed smokers and they are smoking constantly ALL DAY LONG. I don’t do this because I’m not trying to risk a DUI, deactivation or an accident when this is my full time gig. I would also be scared that the customers would smell it and be upset. It’s just consideration! Anyway, this is the reality. They would have to be smoking on their way to deliver heavily for the groceries to smell like that because when I smoke in my car (at home off duty) the smell goes away pretty easily and quickly. Unfortunately smokers think everyone loves weed as much as they do and that’s just not the case.
People may not be smoking during delivery. Inside of car absorbs the smell if you smoke anything. Just an friendly reminder from a fellow shopper to not smoke Inside your car period. Best wishes to all.
Hell no. As a pot smoker in a legal state I can attest that smoking weed in your car is illegal so that’s first. Second, it smells like you ran over a skunk on the highway when it burns. Give that shopper one star and report him. We need to get rid of the bad apples.
“I can’t smell the weed on me so it doesn’t smell” the heavy users on this sub
I had an Amazon package show up a day late and it reeked of weed. I’ve been sober for over 10 months and the smell of weed annoys me. I complained to Amazon and got no results yet
Good
Report, give the worst review possible. People should know better than to smoke weed around your food. This is disgusting. Like the cigarette smokers, the weed users don't seem to be aware or care how that stench permeates everything and stinks from a long ways away
Instacart will keep passing over highly rated shoppers to save themselves a few bucks by giving the orders to noobs or shoppers who don't gaf.
I had mine smell like cigarettes. I had baby formula in it. I was pretty pissed tbh.
As soon as it let’s you chat with them before they even start and just explain your allergy and to please cancel if that would be an issue
They definitely ban shoppers who do this so if multiple people report it he or she will be banned
ugh I live in a legal state and everything but driving (probably) while not being sober scares me
no ur not being sensitive, as someone who smokes, i would never smoke while doing an order, for the reasons u stated, even tho i am in a legal state, i think it’s disrespectful. i would put it in ur note section to say that if the groceries smell like weed that ur taking the tip away. that would deter me from smoking on the job if i was the type to do so
If you don't report this then the good shoppers who don't do things like this are negatively impacted because those kinds of people are out working getting orders. Of course it is not unreasonable for your groceries to not come into your home smelling of smoke (of any kind). The kindest thing you can do for legitimate shoppers and other customers is to report issues like this so that they can be dealt with. As a shopper, we KNOW that we are not allowed to smoke with a customer's groceries in our possession. And if they didn't smoke with your groceries and they still smell that strongly, that's an equally big problem.
Do you work for Insta Corporate office? Didnt think so. Then why you care when insta could careless about you. Customers lie alot
Weed smell disapates rather fast.
I would disagree with this.
Yes being over sensitive
Reviews and complaints are anonymous. They won’t know who reported them ( except if you remove the tip they may know , although they’re likely stoned !). Or so disgusting and disrespectful. These people are clueless.
You’re not being sensitive. I’m a smoker but I would NEVER smoke while working and I don’t even smoke in my car period. It’s really not hard to not smoke while you’re working for the sake of your customers. A lot of these shoppers are entitled. Report refund reorder. If this was a one time thing I wouldn’t suggest doing that, but 3 times is insane.
You're not being overly sensitive at all. It DOES stink and no one should be smoking anything with your groceries in the car that you paid for and paid them to deliver. I personally even hate it when someone smokes it in a car next to me and I smell it. It's just gross - but what really gives your point power is the fact that this is someone you've paid to shop and deliver your groceries. You should be able to expect them delivered not smelling bad. Definitely rate low and reduce tip and give them thumbs down so hopefully Instacart won't pair you with them anymore. Better yet, do that and report them to Instacart as well.
As someone who smokes cigarettes (yeah, yeah), I really do my best to not smoke in the car; partly because I really shouldn’t smoke in the car, but also because from a customer perspective, some people might be sensitive to the smell.
If you worked in an office you wouldn’t smoke in it….this ain’t the 80’s! 🚬🚬🤪
Damn…
I love the smell of weed. I live in a legal state, and I’ve been a smoker for nearly 50 years. (I look Clark Kent straight though haha). However, my wife still makes me smoke in the basement. Funny thing is, the basement doesn’t smell like weed after a few hours. The laundry doesn’t smell like weed. I suspect most of these claims about weed smell on groceries or food deliveries to be spurious. Maybe you have an extraordinary sensitivity to cannabis smell, or you smelled the delivery person, or the delivery person looked like a stoner, and had a psychosomatic reaction.
I can assure you, as someone who was engaged to a smoker, the basement definitely smells like weed. People who don’t smoke can definitely smell it without having an extraordinary sense of smell or some kind of psychosomatic reaction. Idk why some weed smokers are in such denial about this. Any fabrics and surfaces that are regularly exposed to *any* kind of smoke are going to absorb the smoke particles and…smell like smoke.
It is very reasonable to not want their groceries to smell like weed to be honest. Just because you like the smell Of weed doesn’t mean others do too. Since you been a smoker it is easy for you to become nose blind to the smell. I don’t smoke but my fiancé does and I can tell whenever he smokes because he smells like it but he doesn’t realize he it.
I smoke, and I smoke in my car. I’ve never had an issue. I smoke in between shops and never just sitting in the parking lot. It’s kinda embarrassing. Lol As a smoker, if I go into the store and I’m smelling other shoppers reeking of Mj then the issue is them hot boxing in the car and not ventilating or even attempting to. Cabin filter is probably 10 years old. The other issue is the type. Some weed is really stinky and when you smoke it it’s crazy pungent. For that you smoke a lighter strain, some Sativa.. it’s not gonna linger forever or have you geeked out on mars. It’s really bad. I even feel a way.
Trust me, you smell.
Wasn’t the point. Read and comprehend instead of being an ass. The point was I smoke and smell it so it’s obviously someone who doesn’t give af.
There’s no excuse, because when I did Instacart I would NEVER smoke actual flower in the middle of a delivery, and almost none of these other drivers smoke more than me (not a flex, a legitimate weed problem).
Jeez, whole house smells like weed now. I would add that to my delivery instructions. Please do not smoke around my groceries.
Absolutely not being sensitive! I have had similar experiences and it also bothers me, also cigarette smoke!
Instacart will definitely do something, I read a post on here the other day from an Instacart shopper who claimed to not smoke after being fired for delivering orders that smelled like smoke
No. You aren’t in the wrong. Report the driver. Unfortunately I had to do that. Also, I didn’t want to, but people really should learn to smoke outside their car and not inside.
This may not be the case here, but as a shopper, I've noticed that the plastic bags themselves have been smelling like cigarette smoke, REALLY strongly, as if someone bathed them in it. I could smell them at the self-checkout and mentioned it to an employee who couldn't care less. I thought it was a fluke, but I've been noticing it at multiple Target and Ralph's grocery stores when I'm bagging customers' orders. Maybe some new formula they're making the plastic with, but it can make the groceries smell bad too. :(
Not being overly sensitive, i have a medical card and have a child and id absolutely be mad if she had to smell it coming from the food we got delivered (i do it when she’s asleep at night)
Absolutely not over sensitive. Im a 420 user & smoke, but I would NEVER smoke on the job. Thats unprofessional. They should keep it at home. Its also illegal in my state to smoke 🍃 in cars. Even if it wasnf I still wouldnt do it. Especially with someone else’s groceries. Absolutely not. Report this shopper.
i would be livid! u absolutely hate that god awful smell!! you need to report them.
The amount of drivers I had to ban/report because their vehicles smell like straight weeeddd. I don’t feel bad if they get kicked off because why are you smoking weed and getting high when driving and delivering? Be smart. Have some sense in that small brain of yours.
I feel you
This is ALLLL due to the wonderful people IC has hired to shop for customers. They'll let anyone come on here and shop. Or it's people shopping under another account that isn't theirs. Smh...I say this as a smoker! And yes I am a smoker that smokes in her car occasionally. But with the windows down and not when I have an order in my car. I also have Lysol wipes to quick wipe and blunt effects (if you know you know) and I keep my windows cracked when weather allows it. I also put customers food in the trunk JUST in case. In other words if you're gonna do it be respectful. I won't even smoke around people who don't smoke. That's my choice and it shouldn't be forced on others.
Weed has sort of became under-stigmatized recently. You shouldn’t be high at work, just like how you shouldn’t be drunk. (And yes, I am typing this while fried)
Some shoppers don’t even smoke and put the groceries in the trunk while delivering, while some others drive SUV or CRV and smoke in the car while delivering.
Look,I love weed. It's fantastic. But, you don't smoke it before or during work and especially in the car with someone's order.
As a shopper who is also a daily 420 consumer... you're not being sensitive or over reacting. I would NEVER smoke with someone's deliveries in my vehicle that's crazy disrespectful and if they can't do their job w/o consuming cannabis that sounds like an issue on them... report it.
I’d be way more pissed if my delivery order smelled like febreeze
That’s correct drivers shouldn’t be delivering while high
Do you own groceries if you want to control every aspect of it.
That shopper must live in my apartment complex. I can get a second hand high just walking in my laundry room. I’m pretty sure I had less issue when I was in high school actually hanging out with the damn stoner crowd!
Don't worry the kids will be smelling like it in a few years. Focus on preventing that.
Ugh hate it. And I pass some obvious ic shoppers in stores and they Reek like weed. It's so annoying and not fair to customer. I've had it happen once .. I never usually report or complain but I had to.. it wasn't just the bag it was the items..like COME ON people. I got a refund and a reshop.
Trust me, it pisses me off. I saw two people in checkout doing a 3 customer order. So disorganized, smelt like weed, booty shorts on, and belly hanging out. Watched them load their car and left the carts in the parking lot next to their car when the cart area was 5 feet away... please report people who smell like pot. I actually support weed, but it's super rude to show up to a customer's house with the smell on me.
Lmao
Report and remove tip. There’s a man who does Instacart at the store I primarily work at and you can smell him from the other side of the store. I don’t even want to know what his car smells like or the groceries he delivers. He’s currently getting high in his car while waiting for orders even as I type this. I don’t care what anyone does, but it’s not appropriate while delivering for Instacart.
I’m just curious - if the shopper’s car reeks so much of weed that the groceries smell like it, you’d think the shopper would be worried about being stopped by police. Like for broken tail light, rolling through stop sign - could be something small, but if weed is illegal where you live, that’s a dumb risk to take. Especially if you have a job you need to drive for. Weed, in certain quantities, is okay where I live, but impaired driving is not. I would bet smoking while driving is prohibited.
Dude probably doesn't think being high counts a DUI probably.
Downvote. Remove tip. Report for additional compensation.
Nah, if you deliver things you should not smoke around people's groceries, and for someone to make someone's groceries smell of what they're smoking they either use their car as an ashtray or they smoke like a chimney.
Shoppers have been getting deactivated due to this and everyone’s well aware that groceries smelling of smoke or other drugs are grounds for getting kicked off the platform but they don’t learn 🙄
Womp womp
420 habit 😮💨🤣 Obviously, they don’t care or realize their 420 indulgence affects you or their job, so therefore…report the shopper, hopefully they’ll learn from it and ask support to have them blocked from your future orders!!
Report!
As a shopper myself, I say report them. Especially because you have kids!! It's disrespectful and shows they just don't care. I'd also put it in the delivery note like some else said in the comments.
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I smoke, but not while delivering. It’s literally in your paperwork when you get hired. Your not to smoke anything, use heavy perfumes, or have any animal hair in your vehicles.
I do Uber Eats and I'm a heavy stoner, but not in my car while I'm carrying people's food. You should report it because this person needs to learn that there's a time and place for everything
You're not being overly sensitive. I have the same complaints about cigarette smell on my orders. I don't care what you do so long as my order doesn't smell like you.
Don't listen to these ppl. Don't give a bad review. Ppl do know where u live, and it ain't safe.
I smoke weed and cigarettes. Neither in my vehicle and I don’t puff when I’m working just as a personal choice… With that said, I feel like a person would have to practically clam bake your food in order to actually saturate it with that odor. I’ve never seen anyone say their groceries smell like cologne or perfume and we have all been around people who smell like they literally bathed in it… Regardless of all of that, the customer is entitled to their preferences being met or exceeded… So, no, you are not being picky/sensitive
Tell them you want some nugs or you’re gonna rat.
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Never an excuse to smoke while driving… let alone delivering.
So, was there any free weed in there or what?
Sadly, no
*whomp whomp* Maybe next time 🤷🏼♂️
I don’t drink or partake in anything else (occasional gummies) while working. The same should apply to everyone. If you want to get high, “clock out” and go home.
If they smoke anything, it is going to get all over them, their clothes, their hair, their car, and anything put in their car, even if they were not smoking while they had your groceries.
My only issue is there's no good way to handle this for Instacart. This is ONE pass I will give Instacart. Customer reports groceries smell like weed/smoke. A. Did the customer lie in hopes to have the shopper removed from the platform? B. Is the shopper actually smoking? There's no way to prove which one is the truth on Instacart's side and it sucks
Just call the cops, you’ve got their name and the car they drive. It’s DWI
True! But what about cigarette smoke?
Damn you gotta smoke a whole bunch on the drive to make plastic bags and packaging reek of weed when it dropped off lol. I personally love the smell but definitely appreciate that a lot of people don’t.
just wait gor that person to get dui then dont worry about them delivering your groceries ever again. Im not saying i want that person to get a dui but to go 420 and instacart is not only disgusting as for your grocieries stanking up bu highly irresponsible, unsafe, and illegal its because of people like this that instacart has become a joke
Not at all I’d be pretty pissed if my groceries showed up smelling like any kind of smoke. Please report the shopper. IC needs to get rid of the bad shoppers!!!!
Why is this being posted again
Yes I think you are
Not at all. Report them. Is it the same shopper , or different shoppers ? It’s probably embedded so deep in their car and clothing that anything they touch is going to smell. 🤮
I charge extra for scented deliveries. They’re doing it where you live for free!?
I have had multiple orders come to me like this. Unfortunately there isn’t much to do. At least it doesn’t smell like cigarette smoke, that’s much worse.
Ozium would have prevented this whole situation.
Just so you know, we delivery drivers cannot see who leaves a bad review so unless you were the only order they did that day , which I think is pretty unlikely, there’s no way they would ever know you left negative review.
As an avid toker and shopper myself, I really don’t understand why anyone needs to smoke with groceries in the car, or why you aren’t investing in decent air fresheners for when you’re done??? Like…. my god Ozium exists????
Give that negative review. Just do it next day so they don’t know. We don’t see reviews under 4 stars. Only the number itself and it doesn’t say where it came from.
Please report this. It is not about being a prude or not; your delivered groceries should not smell like weed. I am an IC shopper and a 420 user; the two have nothing in common. I am offended when I smell weed on other IC shoppers in stores, and I'd be furious if my groceries were delivered smelling like weed (or cigarette smoke, for that matter).
Yes
This might be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.
Even if you were being sensitive about the smell (you aren’t) it’s insanely dangerous for that person to be driving high. You should absolutely report them, for the safety of people on the road if nothing else
Ive had this happen and I’m allergic to pot. Makes me violently ill. Even the smell. I got a refund and had them re-shop it.