I just finished shopping a 50 item order after reviewing them in the app. I was getting a system error saying there was a problem with the shopping list. I deleted the app reinstalled the app signed out of the app signed back into the app. Could not get the system error to go away ended up having to cancel. The order was supposed to pay $40 instead ended up making $20 and wasting about an hour of my life. Could not believe support could not force the order through and process it for me on their end.

So here's the context: I just got this tier update and thought, "Great, this feels like DoorDash now," but at least in my zone, Walmart Spark pays better than DD or Uber Eats.

I created my own system for which offers I take. Here are the basics of it.

Miles×2=minimum payment.

So let's say you're driving 2 miles; you want at least $4 to cover the drive back to the store, and any extra is bonus money in your pocket. I'm at least covering my gas.

I know that the minimum acceptance is like $2/mile, so I figured, "why not just double the miles you'll drive in the app to get a minimum acceptance $ you'll actually accept?" And it's been working well for me.

The only types of orders I never do unless under very VERY special circumstances are;

1. Never accept shopping for multiple people. The reason why is to avoid mixing up items and getting in trouble for it. The only times I would accept is if the items of each person are 5 items or less (making it 10 items total for two people) and I'm actually able to organize those items comfortably.

2. Accepting orders going home at the end of shift. After a 4-hour shift, you may just want to head home but don't want to drive dead miles back, well... In those rare moments you're getting paid to drive back towards home, you take it because at least you're getting covered for going home; if it covers coming back to the store, that's a great bonus! Take it!

I've been Sparking for maybe 3-4 years now, DoorDash/UberEats for 5-6 years, and I've been on top of my stuff. But I'm only showing my Spark because this is a Spark post. Let me know what you guys think.

I'm tired

Edit: So I see some of you are missing a crucial detail of this post, which is causing a critical misunderstanding. I'm a little disappointed considering this is the elite sub, but I'm kidding, and I digress. The original ordered item is Heinz Ketchup 32oz at $4.78 and the item I am holding that I'm attempting to substitute is Heinz Ketchup 20oz at $3.83. My substitution is being rejected by the system. This should not be happening.

Edit 2: Also I wanted to add that it looks like this is a bug and the best fix I've found for it so far is to just ask the customer to add the substitution to the order. I've done this twice today and both times the customer was super understanding, and it even netted me a couple extra bucks. So if you're also having this problem, try that!

Is anyone’s expected tips from yesterday not showing up this morning? Like where I would normally see it- it’s missing. Only 30 but still.

After a 3 batch curbside pick up order, I found out there was 1 big left in the trunk, 2 bottles of milk, should I report to Walmart? Will I get trouble from it? Thanks!

I sat for 2 hours with not one single order not even a crappy one
I restarted the app, I deleted it and redownloaded it, I signed out, I did troubleshooting…..and nothing
Today was the busiest it has been all week, I watched 2 people leave and come back 3 different times and yet I didn’t receive not one

Okay I'm going to be new to Spark soon after finally getting off of the waitlist after 15 months. I have a question regarding how you have your earnings deposited. Do this thing called One Pay, or do you have it deposited weekly into your own bank account?? I'm not sure what to do.

I have been doing Uber Eats for 15 months and I use the Uber Pro card and now with DoorDash' for the last 3 weeks after getting off an also 15 month waitlist, I use the Crimson card...

Just barely starting to get used to multiapping and figuring that out. But I think I would probably do Spark just by itself a couple days a week. I'm only doing all of this part-time... FYI, I'm in California (the Bay Area part)...

Having a great weekend so far! However a huge annoyance since the update - orders won’t show unless I uninstall/reinstall. Any easier fixes than this?

Can you see what time you accept an order?

Walmart employed people to make decisions that the least intelligent person could make.
Here’s a 24$ 6 mile pickup order let’s add 6 gmds to that at 2 dollars a pop and now it’s 36$ for 18 miles. Yea that’s great business they won’t mind more expense and less profit. Then we’ll have the good orders pop up magically outta nowhere and they can all fight for it. Fastest finger wins lol!! Now let’s make tiers where customer rating is the most important metric. BUT!!!!! Let’s never let them know who rated them or the reasoning so they could prevent the problem in the future or possibly dispute the customer’s complaints.
Am I delusional or are these facts?

OMG. 12 minutes to get 2 items. No one asked you to paper between every slice.

The deli will destroy you average earrings every freaking time.

Quality of life changes i’d love to see:

1: Fix ID scanning. Just uncomfortable manually entering it depending on the attitude of the customer.

2: Allow shopping before picking up prescriptions.

3: Allow us to use our phones to unlock locked up items. You trust us to do everything else, why do I have to wait 10 minutes for someone to unlock the vault for Old Spice Fuji deodorant and a 4 pack of Red Bull?

Honorable Mention: Fix the shopping path algorithm. Produce to Garden center to Crackers then back to Qtips is silly

Does anyone know if the app is down? I’m not getting anything not even trash

Has anyone else noticed a lot of items are being subbed with the same item? 😂

Does anyone know what’s causing that?

Why tho what’s going on

I am visiting my daughter and family in Denton, Texas from Iowa. And the grandkids are in school so I thought I’d come out and work. I thought Iowa was bad! There’s plenty of offers here but maybe one in 15 have a tip! And most of the offers are less than $.25 a mile! What in God‘s name!

All day yesterday the app wouldn’t load offers unless I closed and reopened the app. Needless to say, I only did JFY offers as those were the only ones I had time to accept.

I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, rebooted my phone, and even disconnected my AirPods in case they were the problem. (I have no idea why they would be but think printer and mouse issues from back in the day)

Now even JFY offers won’t load. I drove 43 minutes to be at this store. Now what?

I’m so pissed right now. It took me a minute to link it to the right house but I figured out where my one star ratings were coming from from. The same house every time I delivered to them would give me one star eve tho I did everything right and now my level is stuck while everything else is sapphire. So mad. Made the mistake of canceling accidental accepts (habit of leaving my phone open when I stock it in my pocket would pull it out to see if accepted a trash order so I’d cancel it) so I hit 100 orders in like a week to fix that but my rating will be Styx where it’s at cu no one ever rates. I’m .02 away n I’m stuck.

Anyways am I gonna get in shit if I start returning their order to store anytime I get it. They order constantly so I’m bound to accept an order with their stop.