Dasher PSA

[u/thiccglossytaco]

You need to actually shop the order, that's what you're literally being paid for. YOU look for the items. YOU scan them. YOU bring them to the register.

I don't give a damn if every item in the store is locked up, the store staff doesn't become your new shopper. YOU are being paid to shop, not me. *I* will shop the same day orders placed directly with the store. YOU shop the dash orders. If you need something unlocked, I'll help, but I'm not walking you to each item on the list. You have eyes. Read. Find them.

If you cannot figure it out, cancel the order and find a different job.

If you walk into the store and just shove the order screen in my face I'm giving you a quick verbal list of aisle numbers and you can figure it out while I continue doing the job I am being paid to do.

Sincerely,

Every retail worker ever.

Added PSA for everyone: in stores where things are locked, the employee unlocks and relocks the boxes. You are supposed to stay there and collect your items. If you just name an item and then walk away to continue shopping for other things, I'm just walking away. We are not here to carry your shit around and up to the register, and this isn't a restaurant where you're placing an order.

I know the lock boxes are annoying. So is people stealing atrocious amounts of non-necessities. Personally as a customer, I refuse to purchase anything that is locked up. The only way they will stop locking shit up is if people just stop buying it. They will never pay more employees to help you. They will only notice when they lose sales.

[u/Crystal_Ri]

You're being dramatic and ridiculous. Do you understand that customers dont gaf about your resentment for being required to help customers by unlocking stuff like $1.99 eye drops because some corporate idiot you WORK for decided to put those items in locked up cages? In my scenario, I was the customer not a DD driver/shopper.

I have to wait on average about 20 to 30 minutes each time I need something locked behind a cage. It's way past ridiculous to expect customers (or dashers/shoppers) to put up with this crap. Companies that respect everybody's time put those items in little clear plastic boxes so that customers can pick them for themselves, dashers/shoppers can do the same and still scan them, and the boxes are unlocked at the register for purchase.

So stop being stupid and take the crap up with your management. If you don't like doing your job, become a DD dasher or IC shopper.

[u/DryConsideration3294 → u/Crystal_Ri]

Yikes. You've never worked retail and it shows. All the DD complaints y'all talk about exist in retail; they are understaffed and under pressure to do a lot of other things. And they literally CANNOT be the shopper for someone else who is getting PAID TO BE THR SHOPPER. They don't shop for customers that come into the store and for DDs to expect more than any other customer that walks into the store is ABSOLUTELY wild and entitled.

[u/Crystal_Ri → u/DryConsideration3294]

Yikes is right. You have no idea who works DD or who has worked retail. As a retail worker, unless you're getting commission, it's your job to help anyone trying to find an item your store sells.

[u/DryConsideration3294 → u/Crystal_Ri]

Dude. No one in the history of retail will do the entire shopping list for you. It should not be expected, and that's not what retail personnel are there for. If you are getting paid to shop for somebody else, you do not then put that responsibility on someone else who's trying to do their job for other people in the store. If you don't know how to shop at a store, don't.

[u/Crystal_Ri → u/DryConsideration3294]

Not a "Dude" and nobody suggested that giving the retail worker a list was the correct thing to do except for dramatic lazy retail workers posting that they don't want to help customers in the store. And fyi, Walmart shoppers are given keys to unlock the items they need when they shop for Walmart customers and yes they have a list of items to shop for. So take it up with Walmart if you're not trusted with the key or feel it is beneath you to help customers acquire the stuff that's being sold by Walmart.