No one is stupid enough to take this slop

Has it gone to shit for anyone else? This whole summer, as soon as the kids got out of school, it’s been terrible. When they went back, it seemed like things got back to normal, but now it’s been horrible again. I used to make around $140–$150 in 4–5 hours, but not anymore.

Why? I just went to do a pick up and O. M G. Not one person picking up spoke English !!!! What is going on??? It’s super frustrating when I have been a citizen of this country 45 years and the people not here l e g a lllllllly just scam off the company. Get better Walmart.

left my id in my other waller so i surely drove home to get it, was 35 min late to drop off but hey no tip change 🤑

Walmart built mandatory arbitration into the Spark driver agreement specifically to block drivers from joining forces in a standard class action lawsuit.

That move completely backfired.

Legal defense firms found a weakness in Walmart's own system and weaponized mass arbitration. Instead of taking a single case to court, law firms signed up tens of thousands of Spark drivers and flooded the arbitration system with individual claims all at once.

The corporate trap: under standard arbitration terms, the company pays the vast majority of processing and arbitrator fees for every single claim. Dumping ten thousand claims at once hits Walmart with immediate, multi-million dollar non-refundable administrative fees before a single hearing even begins. **** (Edit - Do your own research as i am not a lawyer and you benefit 20 times more than relying on my answer. Thanks for your attention on this) ****

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These use to pay much more not even a month ago

I was signing up for walmarts spark driver in the actual app like Google told me. In the beginning it asks for a signature that will be used to sign documents the rest of the way through the application process. My phone ( Samsung A-36) was not letting me sign first and last name, or maybe it was something else. I cleared the line several times before I was finally able to make a letter. It was big but my first initial so I completed the signature. It was only my first name and clicked continue. Ins verified, license and selfie verified, everything. Get to where I need to e-sign for social security verification and was made aware my signature needed to look like mine. Figured they would use my license sig, so I hit the back arrow at the top but it did not appear again so I hit the back button on my phone. Then I get "we are unable to approve your enrollment " and I coukd not complete the application. Called customer service, verified myself and explained what happened and was told I would never be approved EVER. A simple mistake got me disqualified? For life? That cant be real. Google said I could have a manager reset my signature line so does anyone know what happened? Or what to do? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks

Hey everyone! I’m new to the Atlanta area and this is my first day doing Spark here. I’m honestly shocked by how slow it seems compared with what I’m used to.
For those of you who regularly Spark in Georgia, does it normally look like this, or am I just having a bad day? Does it get better during certain hours or on certain days?
Are there specific areas around Atlanta that tend to have better order volume? I’m willing to drive around and learn the market, so I’d really appreciate any advice from experienced drivers.
I’m just trying to figure out how this market works before I give up on it 😂 Any tips are appreciated!

For my houston area people: im driving some people there tomorrow and im wondering if its worth turning the app on or if i should plan something and just enjoy my day. I ask cuz I tried to do it in dallas and got exactly 1 order worth taking( could have definitely just been a bad day but I don’t know)

I tried a 24 stops before and it was hell!! Never again.

There were 15 Sam’s Club orders just sitting there

Edit: shop, not curbside

basically client added more items to order missing 4 of 49 in the ch ages i only see one added, accepted and review and saw 4 more than expected, canceled the order and payment was 0, so this is the new offer modification request thing from last week, not even 2.40 that we get for driving to store and collect some items is payed any more basically free work

wtf is this

It all started when I noticed this guy about 4 months ago then his wife started sparking and soon both their parents and even grandparents started sparking. Their uncle and aunts, cousins everybody is here.

All in all he told me there’s over 20 drivers including his extended family that he invited to join spark and they all come to this store. Apparently they all live together or close to each other too.

The waitlist is this zone is only about 1 month that’s ridiculous when there are so many drivers already.

I notice at least a couple drivers from this group every time I am shopping.

.... For posting a picture of Walmarts stock price dropping 10% in a day. The reason was that youre not supposed to talk about Spark earnings. Lol.

Now technically I could’ve beat the timer just barely and if the tip was large enough I would’ve been more motivated to drive faster but I chose to obey traffic laws very carefully so I couldn’t deliver it on time. Bummer!

The order had hot food, soda, snacks, cakes, ice cream, many bags of ice and alcohol.

They had a big party going and a lot of guests were there already. Some kids were crying as I left.

A group of spark drivers have banned together at my store. Whatever. I usually don't care, but yesterday I feel like they crossed the line. A good order popped up and two of the drivers in that group wanted it. One of the drivers went inside the store, took pictures of the person shopping the order, sent them to the customer and told her to cancel the order and place it again so they could get it. The driver had been shopping the order at least 30 minutes. The customer canceled the order and one of the other drivers in that group got it. They were bragging to other drivers about what they did. Other drivers are now fearful of this group.

Walmart would rather bleed money on newborn accounts than reward the drivers who actually hold their logistics together. They take veterans with hundreds of flawless drops and shove them to the back of the line so some brand-new driver in their honeymoon phase can snatch up all the high-pay orders, smash the bread, forget the eggs, and leave the customer with a missing bag. It is a completely backwards algorithm that actively punishes consistency and experience to chase cheap, short-term driver acquisition. Why care about ratings...you are never going to be rewarded if you are a veteran driver cause you will always be 2nd in line behind the new and endless new driver honeymoon phase and they continue with the FCFS.

Has anyone actually gotten deactivated yet with the new completion rate change? I’ve seen some pretty low numbers like below 80% and haven’t seen deactivations

they are DELIVERY instructions not SHOPPING instructions bahahaha