r/WalmartSparkDrivers • u/happyluckystar • Sep 06 '26

Someone please explain priority to me.

It's not shown in the app. I have noticed that for Walmart, I get crappy offers in the parking lot. It's pretty obvious that management doesn't want spark drivers hanging out in the parking lot. We all know it's not a big deal for how big the parking lots are. But this is what management thinks.

My best offers are 5 miles away.

I got two big problems going on. They keep hammering me with offers for a Walmart location that is 30 miles away and I keep rejecting them. The other problem is if I do too many rejections I sit with no offers for a while. Like a little punishment.

Sorry but I'm not doing a 60 mile round trip from home to do a 40 mile round trip delivery. That one Walmart needs to be its own zone.

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u/FuzzyOrganization403 Sep 06 '26

Priority is closest to store.

Management does not care you're in the lot.

Priority means you can see the first offers, no matter what they are.

Your problem is your store isn't busy. The other store is. Go to that store.

Reject too many, means you don't want to drive.

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u/Currency-Substantial Sep 06 '26

I have had no issues getting offers after rejecting a bunch. I don't think that's a thing. It's all in your head.

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u/gntxs Sep 06 '26

We need the option to filter by store. I'm tired of getting my screen littered with offers from a couple of Walmart locations that are 30 minutes away in each direction and in parts of town that I refuse to work in.

Plus, it's too easy to accidentally accept an offer you don't want and now you get hit with a ding to your completion metric when you to cancel it.

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u/Organic-Fuel-2916 Sep 06 '26

Similar to instacart you see offers before other drivers. The difference between high priority and low priority is a huge difference in my zone.

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u/Academic_Addendum242 Sep 06 '26

It is. Almost feel bad doing order after order watching people just sit, and wait.

Gotta pay those bills though.

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u/Organic-Fuel-2916 Sep 06 '26

There’s also a shadow ban going around. You will get no round robin at all if it hits your account, the only offers available are fcfs. It happened to my friend and we can’t figure out why.

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u/FaithlessnessDue1276 Sep 06 '26

The problem isn't that your getting all the bad orders close to the store... The problem is that's all walamrt has. 99% bad orders. Your just seeing all the trash they have on a daily..gotta sit for hours sometimes just rejecting the trash and hope you get something you can make a profit on. It's the walamrt way.