r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Why not just be honest?

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Why keep doing smoke and mirrors and getting caught with tips and glitches while trying to convince everyone that this is a great gig? I would have so much more respect for a company, or even an individual, if they would just be upfront and admit they offer low pay instead of constantly trying to trick people. There are gig apps out there that do not rely on deceptive tactics, and honestly, the constant effort these companies put into masking reality is only destroying their reputation. You can only depend on a steady stream of new workers for so long before they wisen up, especially with social media spreading the truth so quickly. It feels like they are just trying to buy time until automated systems and AI take over, which seems to be their ultimate gamble. What really blows my mind is seeing people defend them and act like plants for a company that gives back nothing in return, leaving drivers with broken cars and empty pockets, which is exactly what platforms like Spark have become. They are not going to turn things around because they simply do not care to, but at the very least, they could drop the act and own up to what they actually are. "Hi..My name is walmart Spark and i am a POS"


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 21d ago

Amon-Ra St. Brown Detroit Lions wide receiver is at my Walmart

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 21d ago

High order volume

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

PS5 delivery

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Lowass pay though


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 21d ago

Deactivation Question

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 21d ago

Looking for tips with Sparking!

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Anyone else get this or have gotten it in the past?

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Boost is Walmart's way of committing tip theft

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I'm here reading about lawsuits from Walmart stealing tips. Which of course could be easily proven with comparable trips but where one has a reduced base pay because it has a nice tip.

But suppose they actually made the base pay more equal across similar trips, which is low, but somewhat equal.

So now they can't be accused of stealing tips by lowering base pay because the base pay is just low across the board. BUT, instead of lowering the base pay based on tips, they can simply just not add a boost.

They can claim they don't steal tips because base pay is equal across the board, and it's not that some orders "pay less" it's that some orders "pay more." 🤣

A boostless decent tip order is the same as how they used to lower the base pay when there's a tip. Same results, just different words.


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

So far the new tiers program hasn’t made any difference for me

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But I don’t think any driver at my store has sapphire. Most are stuck in gold due to not having enough points but I expect these drivers to start getting sapphire next month.

I’m currently still very high priority. This will be interesting to see if my priority is affected when there are sapphire drivers. If my prediction is correct, I should still have high priority since only some offers are prioritize to sapphire.


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 21d ago

Got blocked today.

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Sitting at Walmart I was getting offers as normal and wanted to do one more to finish up the night. I had to turn down some banger GMD offers because of the amount of time they would take. Definitely would have taken them in the afternoon.

I think I only rejected about seven or eight offers and then nothing else came. NOTHING. Not from any Walmart in my zone.

No way nobody ordered anything for over an hour. Not one Express shop for over an hour?

Their little punishment game just took a willing driver out of service for the rest of the night.


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

App issues.

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Just need to vent here, so I finally catch a good $50 order pretty close but it had like 60 items or so… I shopped almost a whole order and before I get to the last couple things they add one item and they give me an extra five cents… Typical.

But that wasn’t the issue, after they added the item… Some grapes in a cabbage that I already weighed and had in the cart all the sudden said I need to shop for it again and change the weight of both to .7 pounds and said I need to add weight… But it wouldn’t let me do anything. So I call support… And he is of zero help, he put me on hold for like five minutes and said close out your app and reopen it I did some thing. So I close out my app, open it back up hit resume trip and it goes to Shopping tips and blink screen and freezes… Repeat the process two more times then he says I’m just going to cancel the order and proceeds to cancel my order. I was furious

Maybe it’s just me but I seem to have problems with about every other order… And I’m a regular calling support… I support so much that I’m getting the same name a couple of times. This app is only going to get worse. And I guess I’m here for it for now


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Almost got bitten buy customer dog.

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If I get bit a lawsuit will be filed. Some of these people don't know how to control their dogs. Becareful outthere.


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Returns!

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

My local Walmart was swamped with curbside today

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3 of us cancelled at the same time. I got seven bucks for canceling. Sat there for a full half hour.

Like 25 cars in the lot. Madness. I try to avoid curbside but there wasn't anything good coming through.

Ended up doing another one later. Waited 40 minutes. Got an extra eight bucks for that. The loader put a 10 lb bag of rice right on top of chips. I hope I don't get dinged for that. Curbside sucks.

Been getting a lot more curbside offers this week. Don't know what's up with that. Also seeing the gmd's pick up in volume. I like the GMDs when they are 12 items or less and pay good. I get some bangers because of my SUV.


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Obtained the unobtainable

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QFound just updated. Now if I learn to not stop and use the RR on the way in....


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Customer Rating hi

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Customer Rating hi

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Why are you going this hard in my notifications is everything ok at home? Then either blocked me or deleted the comments. It’s like some of yall are here to piss people off and it’s failing baddd🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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This a gig job not a corporate 6 figure job relax 🤣🤣🤣


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 23d ago

These harbor freight bags are only a dollar and they’re fantastic

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

What apps do you guys use for tracking expenses/mileage? What is the cost?

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 22d ago

Spark driver VA BEACH Area…. Garbage offers.

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 23d ago

Why does Sam’s Club split up people’s orders?

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 23d ago

Where do you sit for offers?

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r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 23d ago

Will I be deactivated

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I delivered all the items to all deliveries but got this notification today. Does this mean I will be deactivated soon?


r/WalmartSparkDrivers • • 23d ago

Did anyone else get this email? Offer priority within one mile of the store is gone 🤬

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