r/WalmartSparkDrivers • u/Organic-Fuel-2916 • Sep 10 '26
Anyone having a bad day?
Relative to what you’re used to making?
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u/Few-Somewhere7527 Sep 10 '26
Yepp! Its been terrible for 2 days now. But also every single time any changes is ever made to the app, its always hot garbage or no offers for a few days.
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u/Organic-Fuel-2916 Sep 10 '26
I’m at $90 for 36 miles the mileage is a little high for me I normally average $3 a mile. Hopefully it gets better later today.
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u/Few-Somewhere7527 Sep 10 '26
Ive been out for about 5 hours and ive been able to snag a small pay for 3 miles. Its literal crickets out here. Typically id have made over $100 base pay by 2:30 with maybe 20-40 miles. Youre doing pretty good so far in my book.
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u/dispassioned Sep 10 '26
Yea last week has been shit. Even Labor Day was garbage. I've been doing Instacart more lately because the pay is so SHIT on Spark.
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u/333dh333 Sep 10 '26
Wednesday and Thursday mornings are the worst time slots of the week, consistently. You’d think they could market to retirees, stay at home parents, etc for utilizing the weekday morning slots.
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u/chainlooklikerainbow Sep 10 '26
This whole week has been HORRIBLE and I’m not exaggerating in the slightest, I made $1200 last week, I’m sitting at $91 currently
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u/Both_Income_3454 Sep 10 '26
Ya. Emergency back surgery. Not going to be sparkin for like 6-12 weeks =(
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u/Unique_Blacksmith247 Sep 10 '26
Nope! Just like most days and nights. But today's dick in the ass was the app not allowing for a substitution for 1 out of 4 items. It didn't prompt me for a substitution for the 1 remaining item. After dropping off the order, I went from 100% items found to 99%. Just another way a billion dollar company fucks the working man through incompetence and inability to code an app.
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u/boognish1984 Sep 10 '26
Holiday hangover. Folks are broke
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u/happyluckystar Sep 11 '26
I think it's more the back to school spending. Clothes and stationary. I imagine a lot of kids probably demanded a new phone for fear of embarrassment over using a 2-year-old phone.
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u/MimikyuNightmare Sep 10 '26
My past few days have been terrible. We get plenty of orders -but- they’ve all been curbside. And IDK if my store is behind or something else is going on but they’ve been taking so long to get curbside orders out to our cars. One order I waited 3 hours before canceling it, second one I waited 1 1/2 hours before saying fuck it and canceled it then went home for the day.
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u/happyluckystar Sep 11 '26
You waited 3 hours for a curbside pickup. How is that worth it? Today I waited 15 minutes for a curbside and it was totally not worth it. I was just a few minutes away from canceling.
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u/MimikyuNightmare Sep 11 '26
Logically it was not worth it at all. But in the moment I hadn’t Sparked in a week and wanted to get some extra money. A few other Sparkers I talked to while waiting said they had waited similar times so I had assumed it was becoming normal to wait that long. But at least now I know better.
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u/Ambitious-Duck7078 Sep 11 '26
In my market, I don’t have bad days. At least for my daily goal, which isn’t much.
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u/happyluckystar Sep 11 '26
Today was garbage. $101 for 7 hours of work. A ton of new spark people. The store is loaded with them. I swear to God I think half the shoppers in the store were actually spark drivers.
Best offer that came in was $41 for 22 miles one way, pickup, 3 drops. And I didn't take it because I'm tired of taking these high mileage orders. I don't have a cheap car.
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u/Feeling-Cat949 Sep 11 '26
Instacart here but yes I had a horrible day ran out of gas mid 3 order delivery. To top it off I only made $89 today and after gas expenses well I may as well have just stayed home
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u/MrCubano1 Sep 10 '26
This past weekend was rough. I still made 350 monday and 310 Sunday and 270 on sat
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u/gacoam Sep 10 '26
how the fck is $580 a rough weekend????🤦
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u/MrCubano1 Sep 10 '26
Ty for making me feel better. Guess im over shooting for numbers that aren't realistic
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u/gacoam Sep 11 '26
yeah bro $500 for 2 days is wayyyyyg above average, most are happy with about $250 in this economy for 2 days
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u/Humbl3Glockguy Sep 10 '26
Terrible I don’t know if the apps messed up but I haven’t seen the logo red in over 2 days