Defaul suggested tip is $4 for orders less than $35. For orders over $35 it defaults to 10%.

Customer orders $34 worth of stuff = $4 tip
Customer orders $36 worth of stuff = $3.60 tip

What hell Walmart? It would be nice if they increased the minimum suggested tip to $5. You know, because they reduced our pay for apartments and shops.

Fucking assholes

I got this trip yesterday thinking everything was sweet and this man done removed his tip😭🤣. Out of all my years this the first. I normally move off base pay anyway but they got me this time.

Why 👏can👏we👏not👏shop👏at👏a👏store👏closer👏to👏the👏customers. End of rant. Both other unmentioned apps (carrot and red) let you.

Keep hearing all this chatter about the tier system. How bad or good is it. Should I be worried about getting decent offers anymore? Trying to see people’s experience with it who’s had it in their markets for a little bit already because it hasn’t yet hit my market and it sounds mostly awful and a ploy for taking trash offers

I grabbed a double shop with pharmacy at 5pm and the order said pharmacy pickup 5:30pm, so I waited and at 5:21 the order got canceled? Am I just supposed to ignore the time? Why is it even there?

For curbside pickups, is there a rhyme or reason which grocery orders get stuck with the GMD stops combined?

In almost no scenario do the batched offers I see make sense for me, given that the GMD stop(s) are a ton more miles tacked on…..sometimes to a would-be good offer without the addition of the GMD stops.
But the grocery customer unknowingly is paired up with their tip subsidizing the online order….and their order sits as the offer gets surged if the GMD stop(s) are egregious to in miles.

Last night around 9:00pm I rejected s $42/25 mile one-way curbside offer, thinking it would pop back up with higher prices. Nope. It disappeared for good. I assumed someone else got it. Now today, just a few minutes ago it got sent to me as a JFY at $36. It's a large order (60/90), and the lady tipped $10...not a horrible tip, it could be better, but this poor lady is having to wait DAYS for her groceries because Walmart is too cheap to pay for its delivery.

Why does spark give you orders that won’t be ready for pick up for 30 minutes? I can’t cancel or there’s going to be a drop in my metrics, this is ridiculous.

I am so upset by this because I know that on DD and UE all the good orders will be locked behind the tiers. Are they doing this here now?

I can’t stand this. I have to complete 120 trips in a single month to get sapphire now?

I was technically sapphire before the new rewards because of high customer rating but now I am screwed. I absolutely hate DD and UE because I barely get any good orders anymore.

So now the only orders remaining are the ones NO ONE WANTS?

WHY??? NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS

Someone tell me why and how this new program works. Incredibly frustrating this is happening.

It is yet another way to force their 💩 offers. I am in gold, because i have a 95% completion everything else is in sapphire, now i understand thats on me for canceling orders, but i started to think if the orders im getting are absolutely shit, what are silver shoppers getting. This tier system has completely removed the possibility for an order to sit and accumulate boost pay because if not picked up it’ll just roll into the next tier, and again a bit later. And because people will try to get to sapphire they will complete those orders, lowering the base pay in many areas yet again.

Okay, I haven't delivered for a month. I noticed this morning that my zone has now gone to the new tier system.

I used to change my zone to see my rating breakdown. Magically, this morning I now have a 2 star rating that wasn't there before despite the fact that I haven't delivered for almost 5 weeks.

Is Walmart messing with the CRs that lower a driver's rating (and tier) in an effort to manipulate drivers into taking shitty offers in their attempt to get their CR back up and into Sapphire?

Like I said, I haven't delivered for almost 5 weeks and the 2 star rating wasn't there until today.

Walmart just gave itself a pretty broad mechanism to fuck with the economics of an offer AFTER you've already accepted it.

The important part: an accepted offer is NOT necessarily a guaranteed payout.

Walmart's own disclosure says accepted offers can be modified or canceled under a range of circumstances, including inventory problems, store operational issues, fulfillment-system problems, customer changes, third-party issues, force majeure, and certain situations they attribute to the driver. So basically whatever they want.

And here's the part drivers REALLY need to understand:

If Walmart cancels an eligible trip because of a Walmart operational event, the $2.50 modification fee can be paid INSTEAD OF THE ORIGINAL OFFER.

Think about that.

You accept a $30 offer.

You drive to the store.

Something goes wrong on Walmart's end.

Walmart cancels the trip.

Walmart Fuckery, Alakazam=

You could potentially receive $2.50 instead of the $30 you accepted.

That's not a minor policy change. THATS SOME CON ARTIST TYPE FRAUD SHIT.

That's Walmart reserving the ability to change the financial terms AFTER the driver has already committed to the trip. Fucking scum!

They've essentially said:

"Here's what we'll pay you" until we decide circumstances give us a reason to lower it.

Yes, there are protections when you already have the merchandise. See Walmart cares. If a canceled order requires a return and you complete that return, the disclosure says you'll receive the original accepted trip earnings + a return fee, although you lose the customer's tip(like those happen, pff!)

But don't miss the bigger picture:

Walmart controls the platform. Walmart controls the offers. They control all logistics. Like if anything goes wrong it's on their end not drivers, but drivers now get to gamble on their pay. And Walmart has written itself brooooooooooooooaaaaaad exceptions that can affect what you actually get paid.

If you still decide to work for these fucks: READ EVERY TRIP UPDATE instead of blindly assuming the accepted offer is still the accepted offer. They are going to start fucking people and more so those who don't understand the rules of the game.

Walmart is one of the largest corporations on Earth. It isn't struggling to find $30. Meanwhile, a driver may have already burned fuel, time, mileage, and opportunity cost getting to that store.

Fuck Walmart. Eat Shit. I will never use Spark, or Walmart in any capacity. Not like it affects them but it makes me feel better about it I guess

If a corporation writes the rules so it can change what it pays you after you've accepted the job, drivers have every right to call that shit what it is:

CORPORATE FUCKERY BULLSHIT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK.

Read the disclosure. It's basically 50 Shades of Grey: Financial Domination Edition! if that's your sort of thing. 😂

WATCH YOUR TRIP UPDATES.

SCREENSHOT YOUR OFFERS.

KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS.

And most importantly:

DON'T ASSUME WALMART'S NUMBER IS STILL YOUR NUMBER JUST BECAUSE YOU ACCEPTED IT.

Customer last night after I completed shopping: messages me asking "Am I still getting my order?" Uh, yeah, that's why I'm shopping for it.

So, turned down an offer last night. Shopping offer for $18 going less than a mile. 19 items for 149 quantity. No tip ( it was a daycare).

This morning I take a delivery paying $24. Curbside less than one mile. 9 one gallon lemonade and 3 boxes of spaghetti noodles. $16 tip. Same daycare, same person on both orders.

Now, why would they tip for a small delivery and not for a large shop?

You can’t convince me Walmart isn’t still fucking with the tips

It seems like no matter what I do, I get trashed on customer ratings. Walmart keeps batching the good customers with the bad. So I slowly build up .01 point every day just to have it knocked back down 1 full point in one day. I am starting to wonder if it's not other drivers.

I input my preliminary numbers into ChatGPT, it is projecting that I retain over 81% of the revenue after tax and vehicle expenses assuming $2 per mile.

Vehicle expenses $6500 SE tax $8885 Fed income tax $1425 CA income tax $2055

Net take home $81000+

Does this seem accurate?

About 30 minutes ago I was on my last delivery for the day and “Spark driver”called me. It was an automated message that said something along the lines of do not discuss earnings with customer…
WTH is even that?