Pros and Cons of being a Grab Food Delivery Walker/Biker/Rider

 Here are some Pros of being a Grab Food Delivery Walker/Biker/Rider and why I tried 

1. Flexible income

You can choose to work any time you want, any place you want, and for how long. You decide it for yourself.

2. Good Exercise

You get to work out especially if you are a walker. paid to work out and exercise. Being a biker and rider, you also got to walk more during collection of food and when passing the food to the customer.

3. Get to learn more about your neighbourhood/place

When you deliver, you get to know your neighbourhood better. As a delivery walker, I got to know where some blocks are located and some roads I didn't know existed. I get to know some short cuts to some roads too. 

4. Learn more about new food outlets and popular food outlets

I got to learn that there is a new wanton mee stall in the neighbourhood, because of an order assigned to me for delivery. Also I found out that the mala stall in the neighbourhood is really popular, I didn't know that and I hope to try it some day.

5.  Grab benefits to enjoy

You get to go to some Ngee Ann Poly courses which Grab would like to ask you to go and are reimbursable after the course. There are also several tiers (Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire) benefits which you can enjoy to if you hit their minimum requirements, for eg. Grab jacket giveaway for Sapphire.

Here are some Cons which are unavoidable 

1. Have to work under the hot and humid weather 

It is unavoidable, but remember to hydrate and drink plenty of water

2. Long waiting time at food outlet

Unavoidable but you might get to claim the long waiting time benefit if it exceeds 30 mins. See here for more details.

3. Customers that do not know how to use the app

There are customers that put their location at location A and ask you to deliver to location B in their comments. If location B is too far, I will try to reason out with the customer, if customer do not listen just report to Grab chat, which you need to wait for some time to wait to get to your turn.

Actually for this, I think Grab should improve their app UI so that the customer can input their address correctly and not just put whatever location they want to deliver to in the comments.