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Instacart customer service number: reaching a live person
We called Instacart's customer support line with general questions for this guide. Two key presses got us to a live agent 24 seconds in. Here's the phone tree, what the agent said about hours, refunds for missing items and cancelling Instacart+, and the full 5 minute recording.
OCT 22 / Nick Khami
How long it takes to reach a human at 64 companies (we recorded every call)
We went back through 107 customer service calls we've published to 64 companies, and timed how long each one took to reach a live person. Here is what got through, what didn't, where AI assistants and account number prompts stopped us, and the full dataset as a CSV.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
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