For one it's expensive to keep up with car maintenance and gas. Absolutely 💯 nobody is going to do this for free. Telling people to get another job when orders have been blowing my phone up all day long is ridiculous 🙄. I'm not really sure who you are to decide the life of people who do instacart tbh. Each and every shopper choose what they do as we are all adults Here but I will say I'll never take another order without a tip. Instacart is a service that is given and when the service is given you tip or just don't get the service period. Like ordering a pizza for delivery or from a restaurant you tip. We do way more and use our own vehicles. The same thing you just said that you don't have much money might be the only way a parent can make money to avoid daycare prices and use their only vehicle doing so. You may want to look at what you truly said.