r/WalmartSparkDrivers

I require 3x the miles. This run should pay $26.10 minimum. I’m really selling my soul here 💀

Banned for a week for posting this!

When did they reduce pharmacy orders from the $11 minimum?

Three of these were grocery orders, total was 57 items 92 units or something ridiculous like that. $1.40 in tips, 70 cents of extra earnings. Look, I'm not the paper route kid from that John Cusack movie, I don't want any of these at about two dollars an order. Better things to do with my life than trip over orders this silly.

Six orders and twelve miles, dozens of items, this would have to be at least double to consider, triple to accept. It popped up once more at $14.10 and I haven't seen it since. Which means someone took this for that much or maybe $15 at most if it blipped on my screen and I didn't see it.

I get it. If you're bad at math and/or car maintenance, $15 for 40 minutes of work seems like an okay amount of money. If you did that all day with no downtime for eight hours you'd bring in $180. Do that five days a week and it's $900, and match that energy all year long for a whole $46,800 for the year. But you'd have to put 40,000 miles on your car to do it. That's at least a set of brakes and tires all around, eight oil changes, a couple air filters, and assuming nothing else breaks, now your car is worth a lot less too, unless you were smart enough to buy something that was already a piece of hot garbage and have a couple more sleds as backups for when it's down and out.

Walmart should be ashamed of putting out offers like this. But they aren't.

Walmart knows people are desperate enough to take offers like this out of fear. People are struggling to pay rent, put food on the table, keep the water and electric going, have car insurance and a cell phone, and they know they have to hit their mark each day they work in order the keep above water. And when you're in that struggle, $15 for 40 minutes looks good enough, but it's hard on your body and on your vehicle.

Let it sit there. Let it cook. Don't grab the first thing that comes up without looking at the details. If it disappears right away, enjoy dodging that bullet. Somebody else will take that order and a hundred more just like it, and then their water pump will eat itself and they'll be out of the running. They might take that repair as a sign that they should choose orders more carefully, but more than likely it will just make them more desperate. When their transmission takes a nap and they're stuck in an apartment complex with two more orders to drop and that gets them deactivated, then maybe they will realize it.

Hello, I am considering buying oversized grocery bags to color code with the orders A B and C

Does anyone know what the color for C is?

This fuckin app loves wasting my time and money.
I wasn’t late to start, or even particularly far distance wise for any of these - yet they all got cancelled by the system for who knows what.

The last two I was literally the parking lot walking to the entrance. None of which exceeded 5 minutes in time from offer acceptance. This is a problem. Anyone else experiencing this?

Low key wondering if they offer the same job to someone 7” closer before cancellation and give it to them while screwing me.

Cant say with certainty but something damn strange is going on. I’ve never had multiple offers which I’ve accepted get cancelled so fast. Infuriating.

After sparking, I was buying some groceries at food lion (for myself) not IC or spark.

Occasionally, we get to live like human beings but only one night a week.

I’m pissed off about the bots, I’m pissed off im only making $150, maybe I caused this… my own death warrant.

(NOT AT WALMART) This man was at the counter with the cashier, giving her trouble, I made a comment “this guy…he needs a translator”.

He pays & afterwards FLIPS the fuck out, cussing me out & warning me not to insult people i don’t know, and that he’ll “see me”.

I’m like WTF man, I ain’t goin out in that parking lot, now! This elderly black woman is like, that boy? He ain’t gonna do nothin, don’t worry about him.

I wasn’t convinced. I had a manager walk me out. As soon as we came out, there was a low-rider in the parking lot… the lights came on, squealed tires & pulled right up on us.

I thought, this is it- I’m gonna get a Hollywood ending.

Pulled up on me & again said, “don’t talk shit to people you don’t know”. Then peeled off. I thought I was about to be shot more times than 50 cent.

The ole lady store manager said “fuck them, they’re a bunch of punks”.

I do a Sam’s shop and pay, en route to the customer they canceled the order and now it’s stuck on my screen. I e verified with Sam’s it shows canceled on my end. Support created a ticket so I’m waiting on that. Has anyone else had this happened? It’s been two days and won’t go away. I’ve tried to sign in and out a deleting and redownloading the app. Any suggestions would be appreciated.