All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
How do you make that much? I get a order at 8:20am pickup time would be 8:45am, order doesn't come out till 9:10am drop it all off by and get back to Walmart by 9:35am. Then don't get my next order till 10:20am pickup time at 10:45 it's almost like I get a order every other hour. Any advice?
@@Gio022291 it's so true, its more of a waiting then i wish I could get do orders right after one that's is waiting for pickup not saying getting ready
youll have to consider the wait time per walmart. some walmarts are really good with staffing having loads of employees loading cars. some just have like 1 or 2 which sucks!
For Mike: Watching your current video here is some things I can give insight wise. If you are picking up and the order is not ready it means there are items that have not been picked yet or exceptions (items we could not find but looking to substitute). I used to dispense early to drivers, but the problem came up that the driver would check in or it would auto and then show waiting which for us kills our dispense time as walmart wants to keep the wait time below 5 minutes. So I had to stop that sadly even though I know if we could it would help ya'll. On the order not being ready sadly it will happen we are at the behest of our staffing and getting things ready I've been blessed with a solid crew so normally we got drivers trying to get orders from our store (Walmart NHM). Walmart supercenters are another animal as they can have up to 100's of more orders an hour so far more associates but far more work. Weekends can be bad if we have folks not show up to work. I agree with on how close you have a Walmart to you, for reference within 10miles we have 3 NHM's and 3 Supercenters. My suggestion is get to know the dispensers at your respective store and help them out and you'll get better ideas of how your day will be when start doing deliveries.
That is exactly why I quit Uber and Doordash! Having to wait 20 minutes just to get the order for a $7 tip.. It doesn't say you have to wait until after you accept it. It's not good business. By the time you get finished and back to a hot spot and wait another 10-20 minutes for another order. It ends up being under minimum wage not accounting for wear and tear on your vehicle.
spark is very good when the pick up times are around 10 min wait. I wait at home when possible. also I only take orders from the local walmart and never accept orders from others since they are like 35 min away. sometimes i have to wait in the parking lot to get orders. spark is my go to app!
If you know what you're doing, know your market, have as many apps that your disposal is possible, and stay as adaptive as possible, even during the summer time it's possible to make amazing money. I did $386 on Sunday in 8 and 1/2 hours. All but $20 of that was spark. I happen to have 14 active apps on my phone. But these days I mostly do grocery delivery between spark and instacart. Not only did I make that much money on sunday, but my pay per mile was a whopping $2.70 per mile. Only drove 14 miles off the clock the entire day and that was my commute home.
As long as you have the order screen open so that you can see customers addresses where you would swipe to start trip, keep it on that screen and then turn airplane mode on and you will be able to swipe to start the trip. You just gotta turn airplane mode off in order to tap the arrow to get directions.
@@jessstambaugh8315 I doubt that this is true because there have been several times where I have delivered early and had to manually get checked out and support said this is perfectly fine.
Round robins in my area drop at :20 and have a :45 pick up time. You can always do a DoorDash or Uber eats in between that time. Your on time arrival for spark won’t be affect as long as your arrive by :59. You can only check in at :40
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
If it says getting ready, it doesn’t matter if you can’t start or not, sometimes it takes a long time even after the drop off time listed on the app….if gets 20 min past the pick up time, and still getting ready, you can cancel, and most of the time, Walmart will send the same order again for all drivers nearby for a extra 12 dollars, but you would be lucky to accept the order bc another driver could accept quicker than you, order will disappear in milliseconds.
I get ridiculous Wal Mart orders to pick up as far as 30 miles. I don’t live near any Wal Marts. The closes one is like 10 miles. I live just a little south of downtown Los Angeles. I think it’s not worth it either.
One thing that bothers me is they will send you offers over 30 minutes away. Either I decline the offers and take a hit to my acceptance rate or accept it and take a hit to my on time rate.
I'm 15-20 minutes from three walmarts, a Sams club, two Home Depots, and a ton of advanced auto parts. Anticipating the hour wait time is how I factor the time to money ratio more than miles
Demand in my area tanked. 1 month ago it was common for 2-3 stores in my area to kick out orders numbers in the 150+ range. Now we are seeing some stores kick out less than 10 orders a day. Make matters worse, it's summer, so there's a major hiring spree going on and we have probably 50 new drivers all looking for work. Used to make $800 a week on spark, now I'm scrapping $250 ish....
After 30 minutes, you can cancel and still get a partial pay. Then pick the order right back up to keep getting your partial pay for long wait time. Also, anytime you wait at least 30 minutes you are supposed to get a long wait pay of 2.50.
I live close to three Walmart's and almost never do spark. The wait time for the order, the way they stack the order and the time they release the batches... Today I got a decent offer and took it, but due to having to wait 40 mins for orders to come out, the delivery time frame went into rush hour. Driving across Omaha during rush hour and then going west to come back south... UGH, my last delivery should have taken 20 mins ended up taking almost two hours...
Walmart, like all companies that deliver, don't bother telling the customers that they need to have numbers on their house and or mailbox so they can be found by the driver. This has made me smokin hot today after having to return two order back to back.
Nooooo my first thought is please do not ask anymore companies to base offers on proximity. That's the worst thing that happened to IC. Sitting in a hot car in the summer is soul crushing.
My Spark complaints: they give me 5 minutes to travel to the store that’s 15 minutes away. Makes me late. If I don’t take the order because I don’t want to be hit for being late, I get hit for low acceptance rate. App will tell you order is ready but the store is understaffed so I have to wait 15-30 minutes for them to bring out the order. Constantly changing process. Sometimes I have to scan, sometimes I have to sign, sometimes I don’t do either. Verifying ID for alcohol orders is cumbersome. You have to type in the full name, birthdate and expiration date in front of the customer. Either take my word for it, or let me scan the ID. 12 order batches in my area were picked up at curbside but now I have to go into the store and wait in line at customer service for the batch. No longer worth it if I have to wait for customers to get the orders. Each store has their own process it seems. In a nutshell, pick ups suck but drop offs are easy.
Lol. Not all drop offs. Had a large order and had to find their apt which happened to be at the top of a lot of stairs. Try that with a lot of drinks and 50 lb bags of dog food.
@@daveheel Wow! So you cannot see the actual items before accepting an order? I’m assuming you can decline once you see the order has large heavy items on it.
@@queencj28 you can see the entire order before accepting if it's a curb side pickup or in store pickup. But for some reason, the app won't disclose the order for shop & deliver orders. I should have canceled after i was at the store. I definitely knew i should have canceled when the instructions weren't good and i had to lug the huge bags and all of her groceries up the flight of stairs. On top of that, the customer wasn't grateful in the least.
Walmart Spark is not worth it. TLDR down below... Our Walmart is 5 miles, 10 to 15 minutes away. They will make you wait 1 to 2 or more hours before you receive an order if you declined the last offer. From what I experienced long wait times can be the result for any of these reasons: declining offers, the order is not ready, they'll prioritizing other drivers over you --- this is tied to the acceptance rate, they're extremely busy for that specific day, there is a lot of drivers in the area, or the carrier cellular service in your area reception is horrible; can't do anything about that last one. And when you accepted the new offer just add another 1 hour for waiting to pick up the order because you can't check in until the Spark App allows you to start the order. Best you can do is just put the addresses in Google Maps and just park in a spot and tell one of the Walmart associates the name of the order --- although there are times the orders don't show up in their systems unless you start the delivery process in the app. I don't like being forced to pick orders that have multiple drop off with a lot of miles that doesn't pay anything by the end of the hours it takes to complete them. *For example: $30 offer that should take only 1 hour or less to complete but in reality it takes somewhere between 2 to 3 hours to complete --- multiple drop off offer orders.* The more orders you have the more you're susceptible for anything to happen between or during drop offs. Signing, scanning, taking photos, traffic, construction work on the roads, identification for gated communities, finding parking in gated communities, locating customer apartment number and floor, customers not there for alcohol order identity etc. *TLDR:* I wish I could choose which types of offers I want to receive because gas prices is continually increasing and at this point everything I make is just going straight into the tank. The time it takes to receive an offer, to picking up the order, to dropping off the order, then coming back to the Walmart store and receiving the next offer --- *it is not worth it for the amount of time it takes to get it done.* Every offer is different and not that bad but the dotcom, batch and shopping offers will be time consuming. Walmart Spark is not worth it. Unless you can find a way to work around all those issues...
I’m a new spark driver I haven’t gotten any offers today at all. Logged in and out of account turned my phone on and off still nothing are bots stealing all the offers
Most of the orders require that you check to see if someone's home after you have already taken the time to bring the groceries. If no one responds you're supposed to return the groceries and you only get like 2.50 at that point you're better off just sending them a text message and risking it as opposed to trying to take that stuff back especially on the longer trips what a joke
@@kidsdogsandlife 100%, it wouldn't be worth it as there would be too many you would have to return. And then if it was a long run and you have to go back to the store from a long ways out, then combine that with the long wait at the store to return 😖
@@JoseDiaz-rd9fh absolutely; I'm ok with the risk. I feel like nowadays 'no contact' requested by customer is exactly that - they want zero contact with us. Knock, knock and I'm out 😁
Yeah, that is a ridiculous policy. I doubt if anyone does that. That could be a problem if they order something frozen or would spoil but Walmart expecting us to return a big order to only get a lousy $2 is ridiculous.
I try to stick with shopping orders, as long as they're not for 30 items or more. If you know your store, you can get it done in like a minute per item. Being able to get some exercise walking through the store is good too. Plus, you aren't sitting in your car waiting and waiting for an order to even pop up, then not being able to check in until the :45 on the hour. You also have to look at the number of items that are going to be on each order. I noticed your item count was 35 and 56 items respectively. Way too many items for you to think your order is going to be out in a timely fashion. This would have been an easy pass for me because:. 1) You were 25 minutes until you could even check in (there is NO early check in. The :45 hour is the :45 hour. 2) Way too many items. 3) Pay not that great. You're getting $18.95 guaranteed for 10.8 miles and praying you get the extra $15 in tips in 24 hours. No thanks. I timed myself yesterday from the time it took me to when I got out of the car until the time I got back in and it was 26 minutes for 30 items on a 4 mile run for a guaranteed 19 dollars and a 4 dollar tip. I'll do those all day long. I do like your videos. Thanks for what you're doing.
Lately it hasn't been worth it on all the apps...when it gets busy they don't have enough people to shop the orders in the store or they don't have the system set up to do the shopping ourselves. Lately it's just been weak in Spark
I feel ya! They should really update the app because a lot of people aren’t gonna put up with this type of thing forever especially with mike had to go through.
here's what I know, it all depends where you live if its worth it to do spark or not today Saturday is going to be my first day doing spark in Houston,Tx, I'm going to work 12 hour's cause that's what I do with uber.
How does everyone insure their car? I can't drive it without insurance, I'd be financially ruined but I don't want to get ripped off for insurance either
Where I live the WM is close to fast food. Here we deliver through Uber Eats. Wait times are pretty good. Many of the orders however are to cities way out of the area 10-20 miles away. Groceries are good but the express pick ups make you go in to the back of the store. Most of the time it’s not worth it.
I'm starting Spark this week. I have a Walmart 2miles down the road and a Neighborhood Market a few miles the opposite way, so not too bad for me. Those wait times sound pretty bad lol. Can't plan for wait times tho, unfortunately. Stinks you had to drive 30 just to get to a walmart. Also, stack orders of 10-12 seems overkill :(
@@chocolatespecialist1 they call them dotcom orders and yes, they are usually one or two items per, but the miles can be ridiculous. Like $20 for 17 miles or $30 for 42 miles. I won’t take them. I want at least $4 for getting out of the car.
@@brendykes6599 Just keep an eye out for them. They usually come as a first come first serve offer. The guaranteed pay is much higher than curbside orders
In my market if you are not on Grubhub Blocks orders come slow when I am on blocks its non stop. I have sparks for one week that has happened to me but I do these side gig jobs on the side so I do not mind now if i do these gig jobs full time Ya I would be stressing.
The trick to starting the trip early is to put your phone in airplane mode and then try to start the trip. Once it says you have started the trip you can take your phone out of airplane mode.
I have a Walmart 7 minutes away for 2.9 miles but I don’t think they do Spark. The Walmart that I picked to do the Spark is 14 mins away for 6.9 miles.
don't bother scanning anything just tap the box with the three digit number on it and then just manually say you scanned them faster easier that's the way you do it I used to scan them when I first started but it was a waste of time it is a mistake made it's already been made and you ain't going to catch it so don't bother scanning anything just manually do it get it in your car and get it the hell to live in so you can make your money and go on to the next one bro
Come and pick up your order. Ok, I am on my way. Hi I'm here. Glad you're here, we are now gonna go get your items and throw in these blue baskets we have.' We should of had this stuff ready when we told you to come and get it but we don't, we won't and we don't care about you. Your time and effort will never effing matter because we are walmart.
How do you get by with these high gas prices and then you have a trip that says 10 deliveries and it’s only paying like $30 and it’s like 30 miles that is not worth it at all Walmart is making money on the driver they’re taking advantage that’s what it looks like in my eyes because if they were paying 750 to 8 dollars for each delivery it would be way more than what you’re giving you
Does Spark send offers for orders to everyone at the same time? I noticed that sometimes the notifications show up as “1st come, 1st served” so are some offers like Instacart ?
The orders that say "you have one new offer to accept" are only sent to you. If you ignore it or hit reject it count against your acceptance rate. All the others are sent to everyone and accept or reject at will.
I stopped accepting those big dotcoms that're 12 packages for $30-$40. because you divide $30 by 12 that's only $2.50 per package. that aint worth it when you can get a two person batch for $25(including tip)
For the ppl that have sign up for Spark when signing up where it says employer identification number what did you'll put? Cause I been leaving it blank and I think thats why my application doesn't go forward
I was doing uber eats they sent me to Walmart I will never do a Walmart order again to long and not worth it I call uber support to tell them I was waiting to long I wanted to cancel that order and they payed me 5$ for exes wait Time
worth it if you have a main job and do these gig apps on the side trust me you will not stress out about getting money as long as you have a good paying main job that what I have and do these on the side.
Hello I had a question. Do you pay all the fees at the end of the week or are they baked into your pay per order? I looked at the service agreement and there are two statements 3.5 Fees Paid by Contractor. As payment for the DDI-affiliated Retailer making Recipient requests for Services available to Contractor, Contractor agrees to pay the DDI-affiliated Retailer a per delivery fee in the amount identified and memorialized in Schedule 3.4, which shall reflect the amount agreed upon between Contractor and the DDI-affiliated Retailer with which Contractor does business. (If different amounts are negotiated with different DDI-affiliated Retailers, each rate shall be memorialized in a separate Schedule 3.4 identifying the applicable DDI- affiliated Retailer.) This fee shall constitute payment for the DDI-affiliated Retailer making requests for Services from Recipients available and, if applicable, for collection of payment on Contractor’s behalf. SCHEDULE 3.4 PAYMENT Contractor understands and agrees to pay to DDI an administrative fee per week in the amount set forth below. In addition to the fees defined below, the parties may negotiate additional fees, however, such agreements must be in writing and signed by both parties. $ up to 10.00 Gross Fee Per Delivery $ 0 - 100.00 Experiential Marketing Credit $ 0.25 - 5.00 Per Delivery Rate Paid to Retailer The agreement has us signing as the contractor. Thanks
Everytime I deliver in the ghetto, and the customer is black, I can pretty much guarantee they will zero out tip by next day. It's so obvious now... everytime. Shaniqua is zeroing out tip after delivery.
With Spark, if you get the “you’re too early” message, a little trick is to put your phone into airplane mode, and then swipe to start. It will let you. This has saved me lots of time waiting!! I hope this helps!
Stores know about this. I tried this, and someone from pickup said they would report me if I did it again. That's okay, they can still mark orders ready, when they aren't, or the order isn't even at that store, lol. Edit: Just signed up for Dasher. Hopefully it works at night. I could do spark in the mornings, and dash in the evenings. All dependent on the zones being busy.
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
Gotta love it when your order was ready when you accepted it and you've still been waiting at pick-up for 45 minutes (after talking to three different employees who approached my vehicle).
Yeah. Same here. It makes no sense whatsoever. Sometimes I would wait for 30+ minutes watching other people who came after me get their stuff and leave. While other times, I would come to pick up and got my order almost immediately while other people who have been waiting before me still are still waiting. I don't sweat it anymore. It is what it is.
Hate when this happens with batch orders. I go for those. Lately a few of those orders were canceled. They are still sending out deals orders and they seem to no longer host that in my area.
@@JeriDro NOTHING pisses me off MORE than me waiting and people PULL and get their order and I'M STILL sitting there. I get out and let them know as nice as I can with my tone, but my FACE speaks LOUDER. It shouldn't take that because I like the little youngsters that bring out the order. We cut up together every time I'm there.
I live in an area where there’s about 10 Walmarts and restaurants also advanced auto parts. So it’s very worth it for me. I made a total of $181 driving for 6 hours including waiting for orders. But again I have many Walmarts near me.
@@burymebelowawillowtree9243 I stay local so an average of 50-100 And about a little over a quarter tank a day. I also get excellent miles per gallon on my Corolla.
I got approved for Walmart spark. I watch all the videos I could. Figured out how I was going to set up my car. Got foldable cubes. Put a hand cart into my Amazon shopping, and got ready to spark. Come to find out the two closest Walmart's to me don't do Spark. Well that sucks. 😣 Sending love from Los Angeles 💛💜
I agree. The wait times at Walmart near me has been ridiculous. Waiting every day and it’s becoming increasingly frustrating. But if you wait more than 30 minutes you can call the driver help line and they will compensate you for your time and give you the option of canceling that particular order. I did this 3 times one day, but the next day I received zero curbside pickups. Seems as though I was penalized for following their rules.
Walmart Spark is great here in Las Vegas! The only thing i dont like about it is the same as your location problem. Also i hate it when the customers doesn't give you the building number. All apartments have apt. 15 but different building numbers. Also no gate codes for gated communities
When they had incentives this weekend and last weekend in Mesa, it was harder to get the non 6-12 order batches. When you incentivize people to take a certain quantity of trips, those 6-12 order batches are even less desirable.
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
I’ve tried Spark a little over the past few weeks. They keep convincing me to have another go with incentives, but they always make me offers for stores two cities away. The closest stores are at least ten min away from home, which is a restaurant hotspot. It only looks worthwhile when there’s a bonus or the meal apps are dead.
To check in early as early as wanted here is a simple solution Accept the offer then turn on airplane mode then start trip then turn off airplane mode then boom Can do it a whole hour early if wanted tested and works
You're goated for that comment. I usually just show up and call Walmart to give them the names even if it won't let me start the trip but that's way smarter
@@Wyatt_Riley it works for me on iPhone I should have mention don’t know about android but it should work it just glitches the app to let you accept it on the phone I’ve done it and multi app with doordash. Spread the word pls if it works and hopefully this helps.
I've seen people on Reddit say they've gotten deactivated for doing that. If you deliver perishables too early before a customer gets home they could go bad while sitting out. If they complain and Spark finds out you delivered before the drop-off window you could get the axe.
Spark is horrible now. Just absolutely atrocious. I live near poor people. And tip baiting is so common now. I've lost money delivering for spark last two days.
I've watched a few of your Walmart spark videos and I really think it's your location. It looks like your Walmart's are spread out quite a bit. I have 3 that are 15-20 minutes from my house. I haven't been doing this long, but I can make $150-$200 in 4-5 hours, and that's before incentives. I don't know if that is good or not for this type of thing, but I only need $500 a week to cover my bills and gas. And I can get that doing like 3-4 days doing four hour shifts. I only did it for 2 hours yesterday and made $70.
It's mind blowing how people will work for literally nothing. The only people who can be delivery drivers are people with NO BILLS and LIVE OFF SOMEONE ELSE.
I had to wait 2 and a half hours for my 3rd ever order. It was insane. People were bombarding the Walmart staff and were getting their orders before me after arriving way after me. I called support and explained and canceled because I almost ran out of gas waiting, (it was 95 degrees, so yes I kept my car and ac running). As I was pulling out, another driver had overheard me on the phone and stopped me to tell me that after 30 minutes, you can cancel and still get a partial pay. According to her, she does it all the time and picks the order right back up to keep getting her partial pay for long wait time. Also, anytime you wait at least 30 minutes you are supposed to get a long wait pay of 2.50.
"People were bombarding the walmart staff". Let me tell you. There is this one store(one of the two), in my zone, where they get so back up, that driver will bombard the staff, and will literally sit outside their car, or storm inside the pickup. It feels awkward getting the order and getting that look from others like they will think you are using a bot or something.
With spark, I've sat for an hour and they cancel or tell me to call help and get the trip canceled. Looks like they pay for the trip but obviously no tips. Last time it happened, the worker walked out right away and told me the system glitched and there are no more orders that day, same thing has happened with amazon flex grocery delivery. But most of the problem is from the computer system accepting orders they don't have the workers for, inside the store problems.
So we've been sparking for quite a while now and starting around July 1st we noticed exactly what you're showing us, there used to be able to pick up $4 a mile a little more or a little less, for us this always includes the miles there and back example leaving the store 6 miles to customer we times it by 4 and we need to make somewhere close to $24 that is now we used to make more than that. you had single or possibly two deliveries in one order. But the math you just did is not $1.61, you have to count the miles coming back. Because unlike doordash where you're going from one place to another to another unless you're doing another method, we come back to the same store generally unless something pops off 3 Mi off in another Direction that is excellent! Otherwise it's back to the same store so if it's 18.6 Mi it may not be an exact 18.6 Mi back but if the furthest point is say 10 miles you've got to add that in so that definitely Downs your pay! Sorry I came to this video not to vent but that's what I'm doing in the last 3 weeks we went from earning a substantial living, to them slowly working in these huge batch orders, and we are now making under a dollar per mile! It's not sustainable for us! Very frustrating just looking to see if it's happening in other markets if we're just being targeted through algorithms ourself Etc if anybody has any feedback for the last 4 weeks it would greatly be appreciated thank you July 1st through July 31st. Thank you
This stuff is a joke. You have long wait times to get loaded. Then if the order is wrong or if items are left out of the order, the driver gets blamed. He loses his tip and gets a thumbs down rating for something that he isn't responsible for. I was shocked to see that I had a 3.9 rating even though all orders were on time.
I just hate the fact that there’s no instant pay. You have to wait till the next week to get the money. That’s not appealing to me. I want access to the money I made that day on that day.
It isn't HUGE, but after 30 minutes you can call support for "long wait" pay. I think it's up to $7. But I agree, I hate waiting sometimes, super annoying. Biggest issue with driving for Spark in my opinion.
You don't have to call support to get the extra wait time pay. I think it automatically starts adding it after 15 minutes. I sat for about 45 minutes the other day and they added 9 bucks without me ever calling
@@Wyatt_Riley last Sunday I waited over an hour and a half for an "Express" order. Called support to cancel and they gave me $2.50. This has happened more than once in my area (Tampa, FL) and I've never been given more than $2.50 for my trouble.
@@gmpatriots25 Yup that's why if you're gonna cancel you might as well do it in the first 15 minutes. However if you do wait and complete the order they automatically start adding extra effort pay after 15 minutes. It's usually enough to soften the blow. I waited about 45 minutes earlier and they gave an extra 8 bucks. You don't need to call support either you'll get it regardless
I've only used Spark for a few days now, but I guess I'm just super lucky that I've got one Walmart within 10 minutes and 4 within 20 ish minutes. The closest store to me is always busy in the pick up area, but so far I've not had to wait more than 5-10 minutes for an order. I do wish they would also release orders 15 minutes after the hour. There are times I make my run and am back and waiting just like Mike was for the next order's time slot to start on the app.
I do walmart spark with DD. So after I drop of one walmart run, I take DD delivery and accept my next walmart run during my DD trip. I start the next spark run after the DD delivery is complete
Heads up don't confirm check in before it's ready, otherwise you will not be in que, So I do food delivery until I see it's ready. Plus I live only 5mins away from the nearest Walmart but the associates are lousy and it's really low orders or a lot of tip baiting. In order for me to make it worth my time and money I have to drive out 20-30 mins, because the associates are more attentive (they check on you, even before you check in) orders or very reasonable I've experienced no tip baiting and very busy. So it's about testing your market to see where's the best Walmart and what's best for you.
It's all market specific. I'm 5-10 minutes from 3 of my 9 stores and my average wait time at pick up is about 5-7 minutes. If the pick up time is in 20 minutes, i just do 1 or 2 food deliveries until then. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
I just seen a tip that can overturn this problem. when ready to start and ur early put your phone into airplane mode and then click/swipe on start. works every time. once in turn off airplane mode
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You complain a lot🙄
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
How do you make that much? I get a order at 8:20am pickup time would be 8:45am, order doesn't come out till 9:10am drop it all off by and get back to Walmart by 9:35am. Then don't get my next order till 10:20am pickup time at 10:45 it's almost like I get a order every other hour. Any advice?
@@Gio022291 same here
@@Gio022291 it's so true, its more of a waiting then i wish I could get do orders right after one that's is waiting for pickup not saying getting ready
youll have to consider the wait time per walmart. some walmarts are really good with staffing having loads of employees loading cars. some just have like 1 or 2 which sucks!
@@Gio022291 same here but Fridays are crazy busy I get offered 3 offers at a time ...but can only accept 1
For Mike:
Watching your current video here is some things I can give insight wise. If you are picking up and the order is not ready it means there are items that have not been picked yet or exceptions (items we could not find but looking to substitute).
I used to dispense early to drivers, but the problem came up that the driver would check in or it would auto and then show waiting which for us kills our dispense time as walmart wants to keep the wait time below 5 minutes. So I had to stop that sadly even though I know if we could it would help ya'll.
On the order not being ready sadly it will happen we are at the behest of our staffing and getting things ready I've been blessed with a solid crew so normally we got drivers trying to get orders from our store (Walmart NHM). Walmart supercenters are another animal as they can have up to 100's of more orders an hour so far more associates but far more work. Weekends can be bad if we have folks not show up to work.
I agree with on how close you have a Walmart to you, for reference within 10miles we have 3 NHM's and 3 Supercenters. My suggestion is get to know the dispensers at your respective store and help them out and you'll get better ideas of how your day will be when start doing deliveries.
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The Problem with Spark is the "Wait times" depending on the Walmart you can be there waiting for 45 min to an Hour even longer sometimes!
Yep, it's not worth it.
@Daniel Brockman Its getting better at some but Yes when it gets real busy depending on the store you can loose a ton of money sitting1
That is exactly why I quit Uber and Doordash! Having to wait 20 minutes just to get the order for a $7 tip.. It doesn't say you have to wait until after you accept it. It's not good business. By the time you get finished and back to a hot spot and wait another 10-20 minutes for another order. It ends up being under minimum wage not accounting for wear and tear on your vehicle.
spark is very good when the pick up times are around 10 min wait. I wait at home when possible. also I only take orders from the local walmart and never accept orders from others since they are like 35 min away. sometimes i have to wait in the parking lot to get orders. spark is my go to app!
In my area the regional walmart store is the busiest and tha e longest wait times..4 of the other 7 have less wait times
If you know what you're doing, know your market, have as many apps that your disposal is possible, and stay as adaptive as possible, even during the summer time it's possible to make amazing money. I did $386 on Sunday in 8 and 1/2 hours. All but $20 of that was spark. I happen to have 14 active apps on my phone. But these days I mostly do grocery delivery between spark and instacart. Not only did I make that much money on sunday, but my pay per mile was a whopping $2.70 per mile. Only drove 14 miles off the clock the entire day and that was my commute home.
As long as you have the order screen open so that you can see customers addresses where you would swipe to start trip, keep it on that screen and then turn airplane mode on and you will be able to swipe to start the trip. You just gotta turn airplane mode off in order to tap the arrow to get directions.
They have been deactivating people for that lately
@@jessstambaugh8315 really? I haven’t heard that yet, What reason do they give?
@@GigMom they don't and they don't have proper channels to file arbitration
@@jessstambaugh8315 🤔
@@jessstambaugh8315 I doubt that this is true because there have been several times where I have delivered early and had to manually get checked out and support said this is perfectly fine.
Round robins in my area drop at :20 and have a :45 pick up time. You can always do a DoorDash or Uber eats in between that time. Your on time arrival for spark won’t be affect as long as your arrive by :59. You can only check in at :40
If you want to check in early, turn on airplane mode then press start trip
You beat me to mentioning airplane mode lol
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
If it says getting ready, it doesn’t matter if you can’t start or not, sometimes it takes a long time even after the drop off time listed on the app….if gets 20 min past the pick up time, and still getting ready, you can cancel, and most of the time, Walmart will send the same order again for all drivers nearby for a extra 12 dollars, but you would be lucky to accept the order bc another driver could accept quicker than you, order will disappear in milliseconds.
I get ridiculous Wal Mart orders to pick up as far as 30 miles. I don’t live near any Wal Marts. The closes one is like 10 miles. I live just a little south of downtown Los Angeles. I think it’s not worth it either.
One thing that bothers me is they will send you offers over 30 minutes away. Either I decline the offers and take a hit to my acceptance rate or accept it and take a hit to my on time rate.
I'm 15-20 minutes from three walmarts, a Sams club, two Home Depots, and a ton of advanced auto parts. Anticipating the hour wait time is how I factor the time to money ratio more than miles
Demand in my area tanked. 1 month ago it was common for 2-3 stores in my area to kick out orders numbers in the 150+ range.
Now we are seeing some stores kick out less than 10 orders a day.
Make matters worse, it's summer, so there's a major hiring spree going on and we have probably 50 new drivers all looking for work.
Used to make $800 a week on spark, now I'm scrapping $250 ish....
After 30 minutes, you can cancel and still get a partial pay. Then pick the order right back up to keep getting your partial pay for long wait time. Also, anytime you wait at least 30 minutes you are supposed to get a long wait pay of 2.50.
I live close to three Walmart's and almost never do spark. The wait time for the order, the way they stack the order and the time they release the batches... Today I got a decent offer and took it, but due to having to wait 40 mins for orders to come out, the delivery time frame went into rush hour. Driving across Omaha during rush hour and then going west to come back south... UGH, my last delivery should have taken 20 mins ended up taking almost two hours...
Walmart, like all companies that deliver, don't bother telling the customers that they need to have numbers on their house and or mailbox so they can be found by the driver. This has made me smokin hot today after having to return two order back to back.
Nooooo my first thought is please do not ask anymore companies to base offers on proximity. That's the worst thing that happened to IC. Sitting in a hot car in the summer is soul crushing.
My Spark complaints: they give me 5 minutes to travel to the store that’s 15 minutes away. Makes me late. If I don’t take the order because I don’t want to be hit for being late, I get hit for low acceptance rate. App will tell you order is ready but the store is understaffed so I have to wait 15-30 minutes for them to bring out the order. Constantly changing process. Sometimes I have to scan, sometimes I have to sign, sometimes I don’t do either. Verifying ID for alcohol orders is cumbersome. You have to type in the full name, birthdate and expiration date in front of the customer. Either take my word for it, or let me scan the ID. 12 order batches in my area were picked up at curbside but now I have to go into the store and wait in line at customer service for the batch. No longer worth it if I have to wait for customers to get the orders. Each store has their own process it seems. In a nutshell, pick ups suck but drop offs are easy.
Lol. Not all drop offs. Had a large order and had to find their apt which happened to be at the top of a lot of stairs. Try that with a lot of drinks and 50 lb bags of dog food.
@@daveheel Wow! So you cannot see the actual items before accepting an order? I’m assuming you can decline once you see the order has large heavy items on it.
@@queencj28 you can see the entire order before accepting if it's a curb side pickup or in store pickup. But for some reason, the app won't disclose the order for shop & deliver orders. I should have canceled after i was at the store. I definitely knew i should have canceled when the instructions weren't good and i had to lug the huge bags and all of her groceries up the flight of stairs. On top of that, the customer wasn't grateful in the least.
Walmart Spark is not worth it. TLDR down below...
Our Walmart is 5 miles, 10 to 15 minutes away. They will make you wait 1 to 2 or more hours before you receive an order if you declined the last offer. From what I experienced long wait times can be the result for any of these reasons: declining offers, the order is not ready, they'll prioritizing other drivers over you --- this is tied to the acceptance rate, they're extremely busy for that specific day, there is a lot of drivers in the area, or the carrier cellular service in your area reception is horrible; can't do anything about that last one. And when you accepted the new offer just add another 1 hour for waiting to pick up the order because you can't check in until the Spark App allows you to start the order. Best you can do is just put the addresses in Google Maps and just park in a spot and tell one of the Walmart associates the name of the order --- although there are times the orders don't show up in their systems unless you start the delivery process in the app.
I don't like being forced to pick orders that have multiple drop off with a lot of miles that doesn't pay anything by the end of the hours it takes to complete them. *For example: $30 offer that should take only 1 hour or less to complete but in reality it takes somewhere between 2 to 3 hours to complete --- multiple drop off offer orders.* The more orders you have the more you're susceptible for anything to happen between or during drop offs. Signing, scanning, taking photos, traffic, construction work on the roads, identification for gated communities, finding parking in gated communities, locating customer apartment number and floor, customers not there for alcohol order identity etc.
*TLDR:*
I wish I could choose which types of offers I want to receive because gas prices is continually increasing and at this point everything I make is just going straight into the tank. The time it takes to receive an offer, to picking up the order, to dropping off the order, then coming back to the Walmart store and receiving the next offer --- *it is not worth it for the amount of time it takes to get it done.* Every offer is different and not that bad but the dotcom, batch and shopping offers will be time consuming. Walmart Spark is not worth it. Unless you can find a way to work around all those issues...
I’m a new spark driver I haven’t gotten any offers today at all. Logged in and out of account turned my phone on and off still nothing are bots stealing all the offers
Most of the orders require that you check to see if someone's home after you have already taken the time to bring the groceries. If no one responds you're supposed to return the groceries and you only get like 2.50 at that point you're better off just sending them a text message and risking it as opposed to trying to take that stuff back especially on the longer trips what a joke
Did just that...took the risk - no issues/still received the tip. Ridiculous to have to bring it back smh.
@@kidsdogsandlife 100%, it wouldn't be worth it as there would be too many you would have to return. And then if it was a long run and you have to go back to the store from a long ways out, then combine that with the long wait at the store to return 😖
@@JoseDiaz-rd9fh absolutely; I'm ok with the risk. I feel like nowadays 'no contact' requested by customer is exactly that - they want zero contact with us. Knock, knock and I'm out 😁
Yeah, that is a ridiculous policy. I doubt if anyone does that. That could be a problem if they order something frozen or would spoil but Walmart expecting us to return a big order to only get a lousy $2 is ridiculous.
If your too early and it says it’s ready all you gotta do is turn on airplane mode then switch back
I try to stick with shopping orders, as long as they're not for 30 items or more. If you know your store, you can get it done in like a minute per item. Being able to get some exercise walking through the store is good too. Plus, you aren't sitting in your car waiting and waiting for an order to even pop up, then not being able to check in until the :45 on the hour. You also have to look at the number of items that are going to be on each order. I noticed your item count was 35 and 56 items respectively. Way too many items for you to think your order is going to be out in a timely fashion. This would have been an easy pass for me because:. 1) You were 25 minutes until you could even check in (there is NO early check in. The :45 hour is the :45 hour. 2) Way too many items. 3) Pay not that great. You're getting $18.95 guaranteed for 10.8 miles and praying you get the extra $15 in tips in 24 hours. No thanks. I timed myself yesterday from the time it took me to when I got out of the car until the time I got back in and it was 26 minutes for 30 items on a 4 mile run for a guaranteed 19 dollars and a 4 dollar tip. I'll do those all day long. I do like your videos. Thanks for what you're doing.
If you're too early starting a trip you can turn your phone on airplane mode and that will allow you to start the trip
I'm 3.3 miles away from the closest Walmart & 3.6 miles from the other one. I plan on signing up this week.
Yes the wiat time is Annoying u cnat check in til 545 for 6pm order.. 544 at earliest... veery annoying
They need to count every 4 drops or something in a batch as another trip.
Lately it hasn't been worth it on all the apps...when it gets busy they don't have enough people to shop the orders in the store or they don't have the system set up to do the shopping ourselves. Lately it's just been weak in Spark
I feel ya! They should really update the app because a lot of people aren’t gonna put up with this type of thing forever especially with mike had to go through.
here's what I know, it all depends where you live if its worth it to do spark or not today Saturday is going to be my first day doing spark in Houston,Tx, I'm going to work 12 hour's cause that's what I do with uber.
How does everyone insure their car? I can't drive it without insurance, I'd be financially ruined but I don't want to get ripped off for insurance either
I heard that you can go on airplane mode to "check in" then go back to cellular and it accepts.
That works! I learned that from one of Mike's viewers. I do that all the time now, but only if the order is marked "ready."
Hello please I have a question..
When I go to start the order I cannot see the option " start trip" on the bottom what can be the issue please?
Where I live the WM is close to fast food. Here we deliver through Uber Eats. Wait times are pretty good. Many of the orders however are to cities way out of the area 10-20 miles away. Groceries are good but the express pick ups make you go in to the back of the store. Most of the time it’s not worth it.
I'm starting Spark this week. I have a Walmart 2miles down the road and a Neighborhood Market a few miles the opposite way, so not too bad for me. Those wait times sound pretty bad lol. Can't plan for wait times tho, unfortunately. Stinks you had to drive 30 just to get to a walmart. Also, stack orders of 10-12 seems overkill :(
I wonder if those massive orders are just 1 package per customer. Idk how you’d keep them straight if they were all medium to large sized orders.
@@chocolatespecialist1 they call them dotcom orders and yes, they are usually one or two items per, but the miles can be ridiculous. Like $20 for 17 miles or $30 for 42 miles. I won’t take them. I want at least $4 for getting out of the car.
Don't take the big orders. Youre better of waiting 30 minutes for a better offer. Shop and delivery orders are your best friend on spark
@@Wyatt_Riley I have never been offered one of those.
@@brendykes6599 Just keep an eye out for them. They usually come as a first come first serve offer. The guaranteed pay is much higher than curbside orders
In my market if you are not on Grubhub Blocks orders come slow when I am on blocks its non stop.
I have sparks for one week that has happened to me but I do these side gig jobs on the side so I do not mind now if i do these gig jobs full time Ya I would be stressing.
The trick to starting the trip early is to put your phone in airplane mode and then try to start the trip. Once it says you have started the trip you can take your phone out of airplane mode.
Yes problem with airplane mode is you could be deactivated for doing that.
When I get a Walmart order and I'm too early to start I look for a food delivery order that I can get in before pick up time.
I have a Walmart 7 minutes away for 2.9 miles but I don’t think they do Spark. The Walmart that I picked to do the Spark is 14 mins away for 6.9 miles.
This happens all the time. You get lucky when your stuff is in time and many times you have to wait.
don't bother scanning anything just tap the box with the three digit number on it and then just manually say you scanned them faster easier that's the way you do it I used to scan them when I first started but it was a waste of time it is a mistake made it's already been made and you ain't going to catch it so don't bother scanning anything just manually do it get it in your car and get it the hell to live in so you can make your money and go on to the next one bro
I want to know I been there waiting for a long time and other people drive up and they bring their stuff right out. That is some mess.
What are some of the survey apps you recommend?
I got so much earning after visiting his page gigs I’m so happy you are a helper too drivers I hope everyone visit and get updated
Come and pick up your order. Ok, I am on my way. Hi I'm here. Glad you're here, we are now gonna go get your items and throw in these blue baskets we have.' We should of had this stuff ready when we told you to come and get it but we don't, we won't and we don't care about you. Your time and effort will never effing matter because we are walmart.
I live around 3 walmarts so I’m real close. I noticed you got to scan pickups and drop off I never do that is it the state?
Spark app might need update, regarding gps location and timing to arrive
You can bypass the too early to start just so you know.
How do you get by with these high gas prices and then you have a trip that says 10 deliveries and it’s only paying like $30 and it’s like 30 miles that is not worth it at all Walmart is making money on the driver they’re taking advantage that’s what it looks like in my eyes because if they were paying 750 to 8 dollars for each delivery it would be way more than what you’re giving you
Does Spark send offers for orders to everyone at the same time? I noticed that sometimes the notifications show up as “1st come, 1st served” so are some offers like Instacart ?
The orders that say "you have one new offer to accept" are only sent to you. If you ignore it or hit reject it count against your acceptance rate. All the others are sent to everyone and accept or reject at will.
I stopped accepting those big dotcoms that're 12 packages for $30-$40. because you divide $30 by 12 that's only $2.50 per package. that aint worth it when you can get a two person batch for $25(including tip)
I see you bought up about the batches orders counting as one like I said before.
For the ppl that have sign up for Spark when signing up where it says employer identification number what did you'll put? Cause I been leaving it blank and I think thats why my application doesn't go forward
You should put your Social Security number for employer ID
After a half an hour you can cancel without taking a hit to your metrics and get $2.50.. Walmarts are very hit and miss like that
I can not believe they are offering $2.50
I was doing uber eats they sent me to Walmart I will never do a Walmart order again to long and not worth it I call uber support to tell them I was waiting to long I wanted to cancel that order and they payed me 5$ for exes wait Time
I'm close to 2 or 3 Walmarts closest one is 2 miles, furthest 10 miles.
By the way I am surprised that by now you don't know how to bypass the wait time at Walmart
Do you have to have a commercial licence to do spark.
No you don’t. You’ll be an independant contractor. You’ll get a 1099 for taxes
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Turn on airplane mode then u should be able to check in early
I’m like 8 to 10 minutes to a Walmart and it’s the closest store to me.
So in the end of the day, what is really worth it?
worth it if you have a main job and do these gig apps on the side trust me you will not stress out about getting money as long as you have a good paying main job that what I have and do these on the side.
Anyone moonlight with spark?
Hello I had a question. Do you pay all the fees at the end of the week or are they baked into your pay per order?
I looked at the service agreement and there are two statements
3.5 Fees Paid by Contractor. As payment for the DDI-affiliated Retailer making Recipient requests for Services available to Contractor, Contractor agrees to pay the DDI-affiliated Retailer a per delivery fee in the amount identified and memorialized in Schedule 3.4, which shall reflect the amount agreed upon between Contractor and the DDI-affiliated Retailer with which Contractor does business. (If different amounts are negotiated with different DDI-affiliated Retailers, each rate shall be memorialized in a separate Schedule 3.4 identifying the applicable DDI- affiliated Retailer.) This fee shall constitute payment for the DDI-affiliated Retailer making requests for Services from Recipients available and, if applicable, for collection of payment on Contractor’s behalf.
SCHEDULE 3.4
PAYMENT
Contractor understands and agrees to pay to DDI an administrative fee per week in the amount set forth below. In addition to the fees defined below, the parties may negotiate additional fees, however, such agreements must be in writing and signed by both parties.
$ up to 10.00 Gross Fee Per Delivery
$ 0 - 100.00 Experiential Marketing Credit
$ 0.25 - 5.00 Per Delivery Rate Paid to Retailer
The agreement has us signing as the contractor.
Thanks
Everytime I deliver in the ghetto, and the customer is black, I can pretty much guarantee they will zero out tip by next day. It's so obvious now... everytime. Shaniqua is zeroing out tip after delivery.
What's worse than a black walmart employee? A black walmart customers.
Let dashers take the.coms
With Spark, if you get the “you’re too early” message, a little trick is to put your phone into airplane mode, and then swipe to start. It will let you. This has saved me lots of time waiting!! I hope this helps!
Thanks bro 🔥
Stores know about this. I tried this, and someone from pickup said they would report me if I did it again. That's okay, they can still mark orders ready, when they aren't, or the order isn't even at that store, lol.
Edit: Just signed up for Dasher. Hopefully it works at night. I could do spark in the mornings, and dash in the evenings. All dependent on the zones being busy.
@@Joe_334how’s that working out?
Does not work anymore
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
Gotta love it when your order was ready when you accepted it and you've still been waiting at pick-up for 45 minutes (after talking to three different employees who approached my vehicle).
happens to me all the time, I left after I kept seeing people come and go with orders
Yeah. Same here. It makes no sense whatsoever. Sometimes I would wait for 30+ minutes watching other people who came after me get their stuff and leave. While other times, I would come to pick up and got my order almost immediately while other people who have been waiting before me still are still waiting. I don't sweat it anymore. It is what it is.
Hate when this happens with batch orders. I go for those. Lately a few of those orders were canceled. They are still sending out deals orders and they seem to no longer host that in my area.
@@JeriDro NOTHING pisses me off MORE than me waiting and people PULL and get their order and I'M STILL sitting there. I get out and let them know as nice as I can with my tone, but my FACE speaks LOUDER. It shouldn't take that because I like the little youngsters that bring out the order. We cut up together every time I'm there.
I live in an area where there’s about 10 Walmarts and restaurants also advanced auto parts. So it’s very worth it for me. I made a total of $181 driving for 6 hours including waiting for orders. But again I have many Walmarts near me.
Big cities you can make Bank! Smaller towns with large Hood ridden areas its not a good fit!
Still better than a minimum wage job you better work it gurl.
I wish I could do it all day. Can't drive over the road, because parent is recovering after a major stroke.
How much mile per do
@@burymebelowawillowtree9243 I stay local so an average of 50-100 And about a little over a quarter tank a day. I also get excellent miles per gallon on my Corolla.
I made 700 dollars working 5 hours everyday all thanks tooo gigs that got me the drivers boost and now I’m earning a lot and I’m happy 😊
What auto Insurance you have for doing food delivery.I want to do food delivery,but its scarry when you involved in an auto accident.
How much of that was spent on gas ?? 🤔
You mean $100 ?????
@@ronniejai21 I WORK ON AN AVERAGE OF FIVE HOURS
@@ronniejai21 about 150 max
I got approved for Walmart spark. I watch all the videos I could. Figured out how I was going to set up my car. Got foldable cubes. Put a hand cart into my Amazon shopping, and got ready to spark. Come to find out the two closest Walmart's to me don't do Spark. Well that sucks. 😣 Sending love from Los Angeles 💛💜
How long for you to get approved ?i applied 1 month ago still no news for me yet :(
@@jamesmcgill32681 1/2 to 2 weeks. It was quick
@@jamesmcgill3268 Took me a month
I agree. The wait times at Walmart near me has been ridiculous. Waiting every day and it’s becoming increasingly frustrating. But if you wait more than 30 minutes you can call the driver help line and they will compensate you for your time and give you the option of canceling that particular order. I did this 3 times one day, but the next day I received zero curbside pickups. Seems as though I was penalized for following their rules.
I think you just like hearing yourself speak. It doesn't take 17 minutes to explain why Spark isn't worth it. I could have done it in under 5 minutes.
Walmart Spark is great here in Las Vegas! The only thing i dont like about it is the same as your location problem. Also i hate it when the customers doesn't give you the building number. All apartments have apt. 15 but different building numbers. Also no gate codes for gated communities
When they had incentives this weekend and last weekend in Mesa, it was harder to get the non 6-12 order batches. When you incentivize people to take a certain quantity of trips, those 6-12 order batches are even less desirable.
All thanks too you I have been getting a list of sparks in my area than I used too I’m so great full for meeting you now I can make 1550$ every week with Walmart spark
Yes it was dead this weekend all over the valley
I’ve tried Spark a little over the past few weeks. They keep convincing me to have another go with incentives, but they always make me offers for stores two cities away. The closest stores are at least ten min away from home, which is a restaurant hotspot. It only looks worthwhile when there’s a bonus or the meal apps are dead.
I'm between two walmarts about 10 minute commute each. I prefer shopping on spark. Also helps I use to work at the stores.
How do you pay for the order?
@@Superior_uno you just scan the qr code at a self checkout. The app walks you through it.
$5.00 for ten drop offs? No way 👎🏾
To check in early as early as wanted here is a simple solution
Accept the offer then turn on airplane mode then start trip then turn off airplane mode then boom
Can do it a whole hour early if wanted tested and works
You're goated for that comment. I usually just show up and call Walmart to give them the names even if it won't let me start the trip but that's way smarter
@@Wyatt_Riley it works for me on iPhone I should have mention don’t know about android but it should work it just glitches the app to let you accept it on the phone I’ve done it and multi app with doordash. Spread the word pls if it works and hopefully this helps.
I've seen people on Reddit say they've gotten deactivated for doing that. If you deliver perishables too early before a customer gets home they could go bad while sitting out. If they complain and Spark finds out you delivered before the drop-off window you could get the axe.
@@55Porter just do it with curbside only I’ve only done it one shopping
@@55Porter just common sense with it I suppose I also have bags that help keep groceries kept in decent condition
Spark is horrible now. Just absolutely atrocious. I live near poor people. And tip baiting is so common now. I've lost money delivering for spark last two days.
I've watched a few of your Walmart spark videos and I really think it's your location. It looks like your Walmart's are spread out quite a bit. I have 3 that are 15-20 minutes from my house. I haven't been doing this long, but I can make $150-$200 in 4-5 hours, and that's before incentives. I don't know if that is good or not for this type of thing, but I only need $500 a week to cover my bills and gas. And I can get that doing like 3-4 days doing four hour shifts. I only did it for 2 hours yesterday and made $70.
It's mind blowing how people will work for literally nothing. The only people who can be delivery drivers are people with NO BILLS and LIVE OFF SOMEONE ELSE.
I had to wait 2 and a half hours for my 3rd ever order. It was insane. People were bombarding the Walmart staff and were getting their orders before me after arriving way after me. I called support and explained and canceled because I almost ran out of gas waiting, (it was 95 degrees, so yes I kept my car and ac running). As I was pulling out, another driver had overheard me on the phone and stopped me to tell me that after 30 minutes, you can cancel and still get a partial pay. According to her, she does it all the time and picks the order right back up to keep getting her partial pay for long wait time. Also, anytime you wait at least 30 minutes you are supposed to get a long wait pay of 2.50.
"People were bombarding the walmart staff".
Let me tell you. There is this one store(one of the two), in my zone, where they get so back up, that driver will bombard the staff, and will literally sit outside their car, or storm inside the pickup. It feels awkward getting the order and getting that look from others like they will think you are using a bot or something.
Can you please tell me did they give you more than $2.50 later?
With spark, I've sat for an hour and they cancel or tell me to call help and get the trip canceled. Looks like they pay for the trip but obviously no tips. Last time it happened, the worker walked out right away and told me the system glitched and there are no more orders that day, same thing has happened with amazon flex grocery delivery. But most of the problem is from the computer system accepting orders they don't have the workers for, inside the store problems.
So we've been sparking for quite a while now and starting around July 1st we noticed exactly what you're showing us, there used to be able to pick up $4 a mile a little more or a little less, for us this always includes the miles there and back example leaving the store 6 miles to customer we times it by 4 and we need to make somewhere close to $24 that is now we used to make more than that. you had single or possibly two deliveries in one order. But the math you just did is not $1.61, you have to count the miles coming back. Because unlike doordash where you're going from one place to another to another unless you're doing another method, we come back to the same store generally unless something pops off 3 Mi off in another Direction that is excellent! Otherwise it's back to the same store so if it's 18.6 Mi it may not be an exact 18.6 Mi back but if the furthest point is say 10 miles you've got to add that in so that definitely Downs your pay! Sorry I came to this video not to vent but that's what I'm doing in the last 3 weeks we went from earning a substantial living, to them slowly working in these huge batch orders, and we are now making under a dollar per mile! It's not sustainable for us! Very frustrating just looking to see if it's happening in other markets if we're just being targeted through algorithms ourself Etc if anybody has any feedback for the last 4 weeks it would greatly be appreciated thank you July 1st through July 31st. Thank you
30 min drive but order still will be in the " getting ready" status when you arrive
I’ve had to wait over 2 hours on my orders to be brought out after checking in
This stuff is a joke. You have long wait times to get loaded. Then if the order is wrong or if items are left out of the order, the driver gets blamed. He loses his tip and gets a thumbs down rating for something that he isn't responsible for. I was shocked to see that I had a 3.9 rating even though all orders were on time.
Exactly. Just like the food apps.
I just hate the fact that there’s no instant pay. You have to wait till the next week to get the money. That’s not appealing to me. I want access to the money I made that day on that day.
For me the problem is the wait times. It can be anywhere between 5mins to a hour. It’s not consistent.
It isn't HUGE, but after 30 minutes you can call support for "long wait" pay. I think it's up to $7. But I agree, I hate waiting sometimes, super annoying. Biggest issue with driving for Spark in my opinion.
You don't have to call support to get the extra wait time pay. I think it automatically starts adding it after 15 minutes. I sat for about 45 minutes the other day and they added 9 bucks without me ever calling
@@Wyatt_Riley last Sunday I waited over an hour and a half for an "Express" order. Called support to cancel and they gave me $2.50. This has happened more than once in my area (Tampa, FL) and I've never been given more than $2.50 for my trouble.
@@gmpatriots25 Yup that's why if you're gonna cancel you might as well do it in the first 15 minutes. However if you do wait and complete the order they automatically start adding extra effort pay after 15 minutes. It's usually enough to soften the blow. I waited about 45 minutes earlier and they gave an extra 8 bucks. You don't need to call support either you'll get it regardless
I've only used Spark for a few days now, but I guess I'm just super lucky that I've got one Walmart within 10 minutes and 4 within 20 ish minutes. The closest store to me is always busy in the pick up area, but so far I've not had to wait more than 5-10 minutes for an order.
I do wish they would also release orders 15 minutes after the hour. There are times I make my run and am back and waiting just like Mike was for the next order's time slot to start on the app.
I do walmart spark with DD. So after I drop of one walmart run, I take DD delivery and accept my next walmart run during my DD trip.
I start the next spark run after the DD delivery is complete
The spark app pays a little better vs the spark on dd
Heads up don't confirm check in before it's ready, otherwise you will not be in que, So I do food delivery until I see it's ready. Plus I live only 5mins away from the nearest Walmart but the associates are lousy and it's really low orders or a lot of tip baiting. In order for me to make it worth my time and money I have to drive out 20-30 mins, because the associates are more attentive (they check on you, even before you check in) orders or very reasonable I've experienced no tip baiting and very busy. So it's about testing your market to see where's the best Walmart and what's best for you.
It's all market specific. I'm 5-10 minutes from 3 of my 9 stores and my average wait time at pick up is about 5-7 minutes. If the pick up time is in 20 minutes, i just do 1 or 2 food deliveries until then. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
I just seen a tip that can overturn this problem. when ready to start and ur early put your phone into airplane mode and then click/swipe on start. works every time. once in turn off airplane mode
Spark in my area has added advanced auto parts and home depot for deliveries also.
I see this. For some reason, I never get any of the Sam's club or advance auto stores.