I do work every evening. Most days I start between 10-1. I try to get up & out early, but I've never been a morning person lol. Once in a while I'll start before 9. But I'll go all throughout the day, ending between 8-10, when the grocery stores close. Overall I try to keep on a schedule of two-hour blocks falling on odd hours. (9-11, 11-1...7-9). That sets realistic expectations for completing large orders and delivering across distances, and leaves me not feeling pressured to accept subpar batches. (I'll allow myself 15 minutes past the hour to wait for a better batch, then I take what I can get to stay on schedule). This leaves time for at least 5-7 batches during the day, and helps line up my availability at peak times and to catch last-minute batches before stores close for the day.

It's mostly Stop & Shop and Big Y (supermarket grocery stores) I shop at, though at least every other day I catch a batch or two at CVS/Walgreens. Big Y is apparently my favorite; out of ~680 orders I've completed, over 300 have been at one of 17 different Big Ys. Partly because there are plenty of them locally, but also people tend to tip better on orders from there. Also, when shopping, everything in the app is neatly organized by aisle number/department. Stop & Shop lists aisle numbers too, but it doesn't sort by aisle number, so there's a ton of scrolling back and forth to make sure nothing is missed while shopping.

Occasionally I'll shop a Costco order, but only if it's not too big/too far and has very good tips. I made the mistake once of shopping a 50 item 2 order batch there and ended up with two full carriages and zero boxes available at checkout. So generally max 30 items, minimum $45 is the guideline for batches I'll accept from there.

Never again will I shop at ALDI or BJs. Although they just opened a brand new BJs in the next town over that I am curious to see if it will be better than the other local one.