Female customers are venting their frustration with their experiences with male Instacart or DoorDash shoppers. Samantha Riccardi recently posted about a DoorDash order that a guy filled and only one of the five items was right. In her now-viral video she shares how annoyed she was, telling the CEO of Doordash, “I’m begging you to make an update on your app where I can request a female shopper.”
So, what’s the problem with dudes doing the shopping? Riccardi offers her theory, “I could say, whether they’re my friend or not, that straight men do not pay attention to detail.” She explains that they’re probably just shopping the way they would for themselves, not realizing their substitutions are not equal swaps, or just not noticing the details and getting items wrong. Comments on TikTok from other women prove hers is a fairly common experience.
- “Had a male shopper tell me the store was completely out of tampons.”
- “I ordered tampons he gave me Q-tips like what that gonna do 😭”
- “A man substituted my ground beef for a watermelon and I’m still confused about it.”
- “Had a male shopper tell me they were out of eyebrow pencil because he was looking in the school supplies.”
- “I ordered tampons & was substituted white mushrooms.”
- “I once ordered 6 bananas, and even after specifically saying ‘individual bananas’ I received 6 BUNCHES of bananas. It was like 40+ bananas.”
- “Mine couldn’t find the blueberries, but that’s okay because he substituted them with strawberries. Then he couldn’t find grapes, but that’s okay, because he substituted them with blueberries.”
