An Instacart Shopper Takes an Order for 60 Boxes of 'Pot Ready' Spaghetti From Food Lion but They Don't Have it

An Instacart shopper takes on an unusual order to pick up a lot of spaghetti from Food Lion, but their shelves are bare for the particular type of spaghetti.

Spaghetti tied in a bundle

One Instacart shopper had to learn the hard way when he took a strange order, not knowing if it was a joke or for real.

TikToker Posts a Video About an Experience

TikToker @instacartier1 

An Instacart shopper documented his experience on TikTok after taking an unusually large order of spaghetti for a customer to be picked up from Food Lion.

User @instacartier1 posted in a TikTok video that the order would require him to drive 16 miles to the grocery store, and he would earn $16.69 batch earnings before a tip.

According to Daily Dot, the instacart shopper was skeptical about the order, and they didn't initially respond to his communications to get more information.

He then called Food Lion to ask them to start preparing the 60 boxes of spaghetti, but they informed him of the bad news: They didn't get a delivery truck in that day, and he would have to accept whatever they had on the shelves.

So he drove to Food Lion, and the worst-case scenario happened.

Food Lion Was Out of the 'Pot Ready' Spaghetti

He said:

“So I get there, and there’s not a single box on the shelf. So I message this woman, and I’m like ‘Hey, there’s none of these boxes here. Do you want Mueller’s [brand]? It’s 50 cents more a box,’ and she goes, ‘Well, is it pot ready?”’

The Instacart shopper then has to ask, "What is pot-ready spaghetti?"

He does a search online and finds out from retailer H-E-B online that pot-ready spaghetti is shorter and fits within a pot without having to break the pasta.

Pot-ready spaghetti is "half of the length of standard spaghetti," but only Mueller brand was available, and it was not "pot ready."

He decided to not buy any pasta and posted a video about it on 19 August 2024.

He also shared that there was a second order along this route, and the customer ended up tipping him $8.39 for a different grocery order.

Do you think Instacart shoppers should get tipped for their time, even if the store does not have the groceries?