A Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”
Is there an alternative app or service that doesn’t do this I wonder?
Go into the store, get a cart and throw shit in it. The only option really
Don’t have a car and I don’t live close enough to a grocery store.
Tbh, I don’t think there is a good app alternative and my priority would be moving somewhere where I can do my own grocery shopping. You don’t need a car if you’re close enough to go twice a week. I know it’s not easy, but that would be what I was working towards. You’re paying a serious premium with things like instacart even before you get to the delivery.
Companies can’t do this if you don’t use an app to shop for you. There are a bunch of reasons you shouldn’t use apps to shop even before you get to the insanity of the video.
Don’t use an app, don’t use a rewards program. If those things didn’t end up costing you money overall, companies wouldn’t offer them.
Rewards programs can make sense without this kind of fuckery. My local pizza place isn’t adjusting their prices, they still match the paper take out menus and coupons. But they have a rewards program because it incentivizes people to come back, and repeat business is worth the slight discount.
just to say, I personally know two people who have done online order picking at two different grocery store chains in ireland and neither of them were told to get older things.
you are also able to click “rest of shelf” on items on the website to see what else they have that are available alongside that item in the physical store.
im just saying, those two things arent true or entirely true (it def takes effort to find lesser known things)
Interesting info, thanks. Unfortunately I don’t have much choice. Don’t have a car and I don’t live close enough to a grocery store.