Posted Feb 9, 2023 Updated Feb 9, 2023 12:27 PM CST
Instacart shoppers may be slipping products into their carts at a discounted price, claims TikToker in a viral video.
creator, @oh_nainaisays she often sees items in her shopping bag that she knows she didn’t order. She uploaded footage from her recent Instacart order and singled out two specific products of hers that an Instacart shopper may have accidentally left in their bag.
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She explains that in this order, she only ordered the ingredients for making spaghetti.
“I think people at Instacart bag what they want,” she said, pulling a package of meat out of the bag. Like “pork fresh hook”? I don’t even know what to do with it. ”
User @oh_nainai says he thought the meat was a simple mistake at first until he opened another bag and found a cheesecake platter.
“I’m on a diet, I’m modest, and I didn’t order this cheesecake,” she claims. Forget it, forget it every time.”
According to online posts from other Instacart customers, TikToker isn’t the only one who believes something is afoot with regards to the ordering process on Instacart.His Reddit users and suspicious shoppers on the platform @Confident_Panda9467 I interacted with another shopper who confessed to adding items to a customer’s delivery.
“So I was waiting in the checkout line at Kroger and talking to another Instacart shopper who was also waiting. I was hungry and grabbed a snack after this order.” “I always add candy and soda to my order. It’s a hungry shopping trip,” the Redditor wrote. “Are people really doing this? And why isn’t she deactivated?”
Another Redditor who responded to this post said that while shopping for a customer, you might buy items for yourself with your own money, but adding them to someone else’s order I said never.Some say it’s infuriating to see shoppers committing scams like this holding their accounts, while others say it’s infuriating to have to carry items that are heavier than others, like water cases. Some people deactivate their account for “high payment” which is a fee or this Costco macaroni and cheese bucket.
The Daily Dot reached out to Instacart via email and asked @oh_nainai in a TikTok comment for more information.
Viewers of @oh_nainai’s TikTok post gave several reasons as to why they ordered different items that were unrelated to the theft. Several users claimed that shoppers may have placed multiple orders and mixed up the items.
“I’m on Instacart and maybe there were multiple people and they stopped making the wrong orders,” wrote one user.
“They must have taken multiple orders and mixed it up,” shared another.
A third person added, “Sometimes the bagger puts the second order in the wrong bag..that actually happens.”
Other commenters thought the extra items were an attempt at fraud.
One viewer said, “There were times when I couldn’t even cheat properly.”
Another TikToker wrote, “They add something to increase your total.”
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*First published: February 9, 2023 at 12:26 PM CST
Jack Alban
Jack Alban is a freelance journalist for the Daily Dot covering trending human interest/social media stories and how real people react to them. He’s always trying to incorporate evidence-based research, current events, and facts related to these stories to create not-so-average viral posts.
