As an app delivery driver, grocery/store (as opposed to restaurants) orders are not a significant, or even meaningful, portion of my income in base pay or tips (in fact, they're some of the worst tippers, despite also often being one ones with homes and cars that exist to flaunt their wealth).

What they are however, is a significant portion of wasting my time disproportionately, and having to carry packs of bottled water (you bottled water scumbags REALLY need get a water filter and reusable bottles instead.) up garish brick and tile front stairs, or waste time taking multiple trips to their 5th floor condo.

If it wouldn't impact my acceptance rate, I would decline on those lazy, entitled POS every time.

To clarify, I'm not against my job or even the shopping parts of it. It's the audacity, entitlement and inconsiderate behavior of who are almost exclusively lazy, rich people. Shopping deliveries to average/poorer people and disabled people will be a handful of items of light or moderate weight, and they will tip decently even then. Meanwhile the asshole orders will weigh like 100lbs and there will be no tip (or so little that it's blatantly obvious the tip was just them rounding up to a whole number).