Online pickers are being called out for hogging parking spots outside stores and clogging aisles inside.
Outside, Costco has reportedly started banning Instacart contractors, or “shoppers” in Instacart’s terms, from waiting in parking lots for orders at some stores. A screenshot on a recent Reddit post by a contractor in the Los Angeles area shows a message next to a Costco listing, “Store policy requires waiting at offsite parking.”