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They do large batch orders called gmd's twice a day in my market at 10am and 5pm. No way of filtering them either. I done a few of them never been worth it for me. I doordash until I get some other offers from spark. I only do 1 or 2 batch pickups or shop and delivers.
Here's my take since im on multiple gig apps. If you're within reasonable distance to a walmart/sams club and you do other things like uber eats/doordash etc, i find it best to find a spark order, regardless of the number of orders in one trip, to find one thatll put you in a hotspot area for food delivery. That way if you know you arent going to end up near a walmart/sams then you have the opportunity to go on another app
You need to work a full 2 days in a row before you consider if it is good or not. Also I suggest working Thursday through Monday. Those are the best days to work. It takes atleast 2 days to build momentum on spark for the week due to tips taking 24 hours to come in. It depends on offers and tips and staying consistent.
Good to see you actually helping the Walmart worker load the stuff in your car. I do the same, not only to make sure the items don’t roll around and break during transportation, but also to make the job go quicker for myself and the Walmart worker. I cannot just sit in my car having someone load my customers stuff by themselves, I see most other delivery drivers do when I pick up.
I guess it’s different in other places bc in New York the workers said they’re not allowed to load orders that are for delivery, the drives have to do the loading themselves.
@@unknownvisitor964 sounds like bs to me. Maybe they like loading cars themselves cuz it takes longer and they get paid by the hour. As a driver, would you trust someone you don’t know to load your stuff knowing nothing will brake? If so, now you got broken eggs in your car’s carpet. Who’s cleaning it, you or the person who loaded it?
No helping in my market, a stern eye with " Drivers need to stay in there vehicle" is what we get. Don't know if there was an incident, maybe they just got annoyed with people trying to do there job for them, I could see that being a thing.
In my market Spark is amazing. I live in a smaller town and batched orders (2 orders) take less than 20 mins to drop off both orders. Five miles or less for both orders. The orders typically drop at the 20 minute mark of every hour. Check into your pickup spot at the 40 min mark as it will not let you check in until the 40 min mark. Loaded up by the 50 min mark and then drop off the orders. I recommend getting the 70 quart or liter heavy duty plastic containers to put the groceries/bags in. This helps delivery times especially with larger orders. Cuts down on the back and forth to your car to get more groceries. The plastic containers can get heavy. Have one in the trunk and one in the rear seat. I live in AZ so it gets hot. I also have a large hot and cold bag specifically for cold/chilled items and customers love when I use that and they have adjusted tips when started to use it. Smaller town with shorter distances is key with Spark imo. Hope this helps. Drive safe!
The thing is the stack orders 7-12 is kind of nice because they're usually just a couple items for each one and you don't have to keep going back to the store. My suggestion for you is after you do a delivery just go ahead and Park and wait for an order to where it's near your location and maybe it'll take you back closer to your location. I usually work four to five hours a day and make $100.
I have 5 Walmart's in my city. Spark is so much better than DD, UE, and GH now. It is pretty easy for me to make $100 in around 3 hours. When it comes to scanning, when I pick orders up, 3 of these Walmarts require me to scan and the other 2 dont. I dont know why that is, but whatever. I really love the shop and deliver orders more.
Spark has been great for me. I live within 20 minutes of about 20 pickup locations. I average about 32 dollars an hour and on several occasions now ive made as much as 60 per hour.The only frustrating thing is when you wait for 30 or more minutes on an order that says it's ready and Walmart won't increase your pay or anything. They just say they don't recommend waiting longer than 30 minutes. Then that's just 30 minutes or more you just wasted with no pay.
Scan requirement depends on location and type of order... not using spark, but get WM orders on D-DASH.... also, I advise anyone who regularly does grocery deliveries to get folding crates (costco) and a collapsible hand cart (lowes,home depot, etc)
Get spark DD Uber PP they are all ripping you off. You’ll never take another Wally World order from a 3rd party once you see how good some of them can be
I've done 220 trips, and *none* of them I've done have ever been the huge batch DOTCOM orders. If you want the most out of Walmart Spark, you've *got* to put in *at least* 4-6 hours in a day to make the most of the bonus incentives they give out. Planning to Spark on the weekends and Fridays is key, and depending on the areas, working Mondays is also super busy. Also starting right at 7AM is also key. Once you get a few runs in, you might get an offer for Shop and Delivery, and those are pretty much the best orders you can get. Walmart Spark is pretty nice, but it just demands a bit more of your time, and you *always* have to be alert when the incentives drop. I've made $250 in just incentives in a week before.
@@ezosoro Yes, and they're pretty simple. Minimum base pay is $19. You follow the prompts, scan the items listed in the order they ask you to pick them up, then head to a scan and go to bag your items where you scan the QR code with your phone. Then the app asks you to confirm everything. There are times where you have to wait for an associate to confirm everything before you leave the store also. IMO these are the best orders because you do not have to wait curbside to pick up orders. You can get started as soon as you get the order, and most of the time, you shop for less than 10 items. I've made $200+ in a day before all of my taxes came in from S&D, so they are always a blessing when you get them, and you usually don't have to drive far to get to the house location. It's usually a 3-7 mile drive where I deliver.
Sparks is great if you have a a few Walmart around you, but if you have only one not so much, sometimes they just sent you an order like every hour. It's good when you get a shop and delivery.
Be careful accepting an order from a Walmart that might be further away from you if you're not there at the time you're supposed to pick it up they will take it from you and reroute it to another driver it's happened to me more than once
Depends on distance to Walmart, how many locations, and tips. I double miles too so don't get too excited. You also should pay attention to whether it is a small, medium or large order. For those reasons i don't accept a lot of the orders.
The ones with a bunch of drops are orders with one or two items per drop. It's like a miniature Amazon Plex block. That order with 9 drops you turned down was actually pretty lucrative.
Theres a secret to getting spark orders there is even a way to start your trip as soon as you accept it and get your order a lot sooner. E-orders come out at 30 after the hour so if i dont get an order before 29 after the hour i turn sparks off until 55 after and if they are still there at 5-10 after the next hour the surge money will start and it will go all the way up to 8 extra. Shop and deliver orders tend to be the best. I work only Friday-Sunday and I average around $1100 on sparks and $100-300 on my other apps in a medium size town with 2 walmarts . Sparks as of now is killing everything in my area.
Scanning depends on the store. The trips with 10-12 orders takes more like 2 hours. I have been using Spark on and off for a few months and yesterday was the first day that I was able to get a batch an hour. I was able to stack some bonuses but I don’t have those totals yet because they don’t pay the tips till the following day. So, we will see if it was a good day.
:00-:20 past the hour are shop & deliver orders. :21-:40 past the hour are the 1-2 order drop offs. :45-00 are the multi order ones. Just turn it off after :40 of the hour to not get those crazy big ones that not many like. I live 2 minutes from my Walmart so I turn it on at 7am and usually get shop & delivers until 10am, then I do the lunch rush and usually just end my day around 1pm with hopefully $200 in that time frame. If you lived closer to Walmart this would be a totally different app for you.
Dude thanks for this, I live less than a mile from one and I multi app with DD, UE and Instacart (but their new algorithm is bullshit or however they changed it after my first 30 days, I did 45 shops in 30 days and now zero, never see any offers and I’m a 5 star shopper). I get Walmart orders on DD while I sit at home sometimes and every time I actually get a good one that pays like $15 for 4 miles (after hidden tip) I always wonder if Spark has better ones and the ones on DD are ones Spark drivers pass up. I looked on the site and it says full in my area though 😕 trying to find out if there’s any kind of waitlist I can get on in the meantime because it would really help me out to be on there too. I’m on a waitlist for grub hub too, I think it’s been a month because they texted me today asking if I still wanted to be on it 🙄 Doing just food delivery (or whatever is on DD and UE) I’m able to average $20/hr on my slowest days, working for 10 hours usually. Some hours I could make $30+ but then another hour I might only get one delivery worth doing and only make $8-12, another hour $20 etc. On a steady day, consistently getting orders I’ve made $25/hr over 7hrs. Making $1000/week min, 50 hours. I want to get on as many of the apps as I can so that I can try to maximize that profit even more 🙂Also I didn’t know they did shop orders on Spark and I know Walmart like the back of my hand so I know I’d make bank with that app.
@@joemiller2205 I would say maybe sign up for another region in your area and then you can change your area to your immediate area after getting approved. It’s worth a shot. Good luck! Spark has been amazing but there are days when the offers are either not good or there’s none at all. Mondays Thursdays Friday-Sunday are always good for me.
Hi Mike! No, you can't filter out those orders but I do get a ton of those multi drop offs. Sometimes I will take them, sometimes not. The "math" usually works BUT when you consider the stop signs, slow speed zones in neighborhoods, etc, they aren't as great at face value. But when you're coming off food delivery, gotta remember that before hitting accept!
One suggestion I have heard of is carrying plastic totes, either one that is for storing stuff or one that sides that fold up. It helps keep the groceries in place, especially in a trunk.
When you receive an order, you go inside the store and buy them one by one from the shelfs or it's already in the bags ready for pick up and deliver? Thanks ✌️
I live .5 miles from a Walmart Neighborhood Marketplace and about 3 miles from two Walmart Super Centers. Would it be easy for me to make money driving for Walmart Spark?
Delivering food seems a lot easier labor wise compared to delivering Walmart orders, which are bigger and heavier imo. You never know when that order for multiple cases of water or big bags of dog food or 40lb bags of salt might creep in on you. And you know it’s going to an upper floor apartment 😫
💖 ANSWERS TO YOUR WALMART QUESTIONS: Walmart created their online pickup department and they allowed for in store pickup of the orders as well but after covid lockdown the in-store pickups began being assigned to be delivered and I think that's where you get some that scan and some that don't because Walmart never went and rewrote their programming, or they never took down their in-store ordering site and customers are still ordering it for in-store pickup and it's getting assigned to delivery because in store pickup which was intended for the customer to pick up, did not require scanning and those simply rolled into the delivery department during covid lockdown. Bags of single items: A customer's order is never being shopped by one single person. Multiple people hit the floor and hit different sections of the store to fulfill that one order and they are fulfilling items on other customers at the same time as well all from one area of the store and with four or five different people shopping different sections of the store for one order you find single items bagged because it's the last item that person had to pick that goes in that order or all the other bags they have for that order have become too full to add another item. Then all four or five of those people bring all the bags back into the pickup department and all the bags that go with a single label are gathered together and taken out to a car.
I just got home from my first Spark delivery and went right to your video. I feel the exact same way. Payout for time and deliveries of all the items doesn't feel worth it. I'll def give it 2-3 more tries, but definitely avoiding any 3+ trip orders... 6 total order took me about 2 hours and 30 mins for $33 payout
@Yourdrivermike great video. Unfortunately you are battling the distance to the closest Walmart. My region in Oregon, I deliver Spark from a Neighborhood Market. Small and fast for “shops” and the proximity to most delivery addresses is 9 miles or less. I live nine miles from my Walmart and once I start delivering I am getting one batch an hour. Some are three stops and some are two stops. Sometimes I get a one stop that pays $16 or more for even one item. In between I get time to multi-app and fill in the time until I get another reasonable Spark offer.
I haven't done many Spark orders yet but I've noticed the ones that look good up front for pick up orders tend to end up well. This last weekend I did my first in store pickup and it looked decent on the surface, $36, 13 miles and 12 orders. But then you have to get a cart on your way in to the store and hope you can get all those orders to fit in the cart and keep them separate and you have to load them in your car by yourself. It took a half hour just to get the order to my car. 3 of the drop offs I couldn't do for various reasons so I had to take them back at the end for another half hour extra. Took me 2.5 hours total and ended up with $37.50 with my'dress effort'... In store pickup is something I'll never do again. I will continue to try the pickup outside ones as I do like the app and it's very easy to use.
So I have never seen a large batch order that is worth it to me so I have not taken one. But I did just start the other day focusing on the small in-store pick ups… So I had two of them that were literally no more than four small items and they were only going a few miles and I think one paid like $18 and the other one like 22 or 23 they were well worth my time and effort so I don’t know if you get any of those in your area
I’m not on Spark but on DoorDash they have Walmart orders, some are labeled grocery delivery some are labeled in store pickup. The instructions say to go inside but if you go inside they’ll tell you to pull in to the pickup area on the side of the store, just like you’d do for grocery. I wouldn’t do them if I had to go in lol. It’s so busy there, you’d have to park so far away and then go wait in line…they probably had dashers unassigning when they’d have to go inside so they just bring both types of orders out to the car now. Idk I could be wrong but either way I’m happy because I never have to leave my car at Walmart lol. Wish Spark wasn’t full here though. Not sure how they could be, if orders are going through DoorDash.
Broooo the first Walmart you picked up at was like an *Ultra-Mart.* Hahahaaha 😂😂😂😂 6:33 oh I see what you did there. So many different kinds of strats you can implement with Spark. (edit): That Sam's Club needs to get it together. They usually give us cut-out boxes so we can carry the items all at once to customers' doors.
Just started at our super Walmart Already made $200 just in kick off promotions to do 5 orders love it still piggybacking with point pick up at that location
Where I live people don’t tip. I did 6 orders and got 0 tips. The orders say 2.00 to 3.00 pending. The customer goes back in and removes the tip. They are only tip bating to get their groceries delivered. Trust me it’s not on my end. I make sure I communicate with them if the store is running behind, always follow directions, protect their product, and friendly.
How many months did it take u to start getting regular deliveries and getting the “hang of things” ? I know as a Ghurbhub and DOORDASH delivery person in NYC it took me like 8 months ?
Yeah when I do them on DoorDash you scan the ones that say “in store pickup” which is usually the 1-2 items like you said. Grocery orders you don’t scan.
You're so lucky to live in a state that allows plastic bags. In NY we have to use paper bags and the walmart spark delivery bags are about 1/8 the size of a regular bag.
If there is a call to another walmart after your drop-off, then they should be (not will probably) paying for your mileage. Instacart is offering gas assist on orders!
Spark is hands down the best. You got to put more then a couple hours in. Also you make more when its busy because you dont have to wait. Also I usually double miles listed because they only put miles to the locations not the commute back.
Spark has been good for me. I live 3 minutes from a Walmart that I get lots of orders from. I also have another Walmart and a Sam's Club relatively close. I do get lots of multiple order requests. I see a lot of 8, 9, sometimes 12 orders. The good thing, as with any other app, is that you do have the choice to take an order or not. Spark has been good for me, but I do wish it had a couple more features. Cashing out instantly instead of waiting the whole week, having a button that says I handed the order directly to the customer if the app says it's a contact free delivery, etc.
I signed up for Spark and it says there is a cash out option. But the first time you use it it takes 6 days to initiate if you will. But after that, they claim you can cash out daily. Idk, just what I read from their site.
Yeah, I just read it again and it says there's a quick pay option in the my wallet section. Of course it says your bank has to accept these kind of transactions but, I believe most do.
It’s all market dependent. I have 8 Walmarts within a 15 mile radius. The barcode scan of the orders depend on the store. 5 of my Walmarts require a scan and 3 don’t. I can ping pong in my market and get 2 $25 or more orders per hour to get $50. Never ever take the multi stop 8+ stops batches as those are money losers. You can’t filter those orders out. If you can find a honeycomb hot spot you can make big money. I have one where most deliveries are 3 miles or less from the store and as I deliver one order I’m grabbing another. If you don’t have many Walmarts and deliveries are farther out it won’t be worth it
I signed up for spark but it's taking me forever to get approved. I used to drive for rodie and and took Walmart orders all the time. I loved it! But now the store is switching to spark. When I drove for rodie I would keep two black tots in my van with 2 types container to keep food cold. Like a cheap cooler and an Insulated delivery bag. It ment I didn't have to go back and forth to my van while delivering
Scanning takes about a second for each order. It's The batch orders that take the longest because they have more orders. I don't like The batched orders either because they should pay more.
General merch needs complete separate item scans. Groceries only 1 per order and not at drop off. In NJ no more plastic bags only reusable cloth bags. Their bagging protocol is dumb I combine bags to reduce waste. If an item does not fit In the blue totes the order will he labeled XL… note cases of water do fit but a broom doesn’t so make sure to read the items prior to excepting. I’d rather deliver 1 “XL” order with a broom then a “medium” with 3 cases of water
The thing that sucks about miles is they are straight line mile especially on 12 stop orders. Sometimes they take 2 hours. Yeah also sometimes you do end up far away. Which is where multi apping comes in handy. Or switching zones if you’re closer to another to another store. Also switching zones if the offers are bad. I live smack in the middle of 3 store with the ocean to the east.
@@drburcham yup. You might not get the notification right away that it switched you but it’s instant. You can have offers from the zone you switched from on your screen at the same as the new one. So if you’re getting crappy offer you can switch and see if there’s anything better in a different one. Then if you don’t get anything just switch back and take the ones you didn’t want.
@@bud-da-cherry-picker Thanks for the Info. My area is good but only 2 walmarts. 15 miles away that zone has 5 walmarts and 1 Sam's club. Just want to try it and see.
Initial scan and end scan are still required. I don't know why it's required on some deliveries but not others. The only thing I can think of is that maybe signatures are required on those no scan deliveries. So for multiple drop off deliveries, you can't filter those out. I do take these because I figure if I'm going to work an 8 hour day, I am going to drive those miles anyway if I was doing ubereats or doordash. In an hour to an hour and a half I have made more money than I would have doing the food deliveries. The pay is consistent versus food deliveries. I have 4 Walmarts and several advance auto parts in my area so it is great here in south florida.
The metric system after 10 trips at Walmart Spark shows if your in green, orange or red which determine your service and acceptance ratw and being on time or late for getting more orders i believe and the scan procedure goes away if your in green metrics
Take a laundry basket and catering bag with you and try to get some spare Walmart bags. That'll save some time and effort. You're just too far from the stores, that's why your iffy with it. I'm 3 miles from my main Walmart and Sam's, which are side by side. Can't wait until I see you getting a shopping order. Those are the best
Is it your start time? I was also thinking of the location. Could that be an issue? Like with DD, certain restaurants have better payouts. Is this also true with certain Walmart locations? These are things I'm questioning while watching this.
It would be nice if when offerering stacked trips that every 3 orders counted as one trip or something. I get that it saves time and mileage not having to go back and forth for every trip but they gotta sweeten the pot when taking on several orders since like you said it increases the chances of an order not being deliverable delaying the other drop offs.
In Toronto, I use UBER to pickup a max of 2 orders from Walmart. I stopped doing WALMART as soon as I did my first CONDO building. You need to have a collapsable buggy to deliver WALMART orders. I was going to get my brother-inlaw to make a buggy for me.
I just started doing Spark Deliveries last week. I have 3 Walmarts in My Zone and it's very busy in Los Angeles (East San Fernando Valley) Today was my payout (every Tuesday) and I am SOLD. No need to do Shipt anymore because I don't really want to do any shopping.
I just started for spark but I have a problem.They had sent me a link to get started but they didn’t send me a link for my bank info and I tried to call DDI customer service and I can’t talk to know one I just need to know what else to do I’m lost.
Idk, I signed up for Spark haven't started yet but in my city, there's like a Walmart about every 5 feet. There's 2 less than 3 miles from my house. Hopefully it works out well.
I have a problem with Spark with all the downtime. I tried it like you did. The way they structure the process, the driver has little control over the profitability of their time and gas. Also, the offer you are given isn't guaranteed, as they withhold the tip for a few days (ex: offer of $20 turned into $10, then I got the tips later in another earnings entry). I did Spark for a couple of days, and I wasn't happy with it due to no control, and the orders not even being what they were supposed to be when I accepted it. To contrast, on doordash, you can take or leave any given order. And if there is a delay of some sort, it is the option of the driver to release the order. The driver has more control, even though they may deal with a fallout on the ratings.
I’m going through the same thing right now. I’ll get an offer for $20+, and after completing the order it says I only made $11 or even $7. I just started using Spark and I don’t really understand how it works, do you know if we eventually get the full amount it was supposed to be?
Hey Mike, I signed up for Spark over a month ago and my application is still in the screening process. I’ve submitted three trouble tickets and have never received a response other than the: “we’ll respond back within 72-hours” and obviously they have yet to do so. I’ve also called but the voicemail box is not set up. Did you have any issues when first signing up for Spark in your area? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I started doing Spark a couple of weeks ago as it finally became available in California. In the beginning I got grocery orders only one or two orders to deliver. Now I am getting multiple drop off (12 orders) and it takes me over two orders to complete it. I remember I kept declining multiple drop off orders and it kept sending me it to accept. Eventually someone took it. Very frustrating. On my metrics my acceptance rate is in the high 80s. They do offer incentives and I was able to get them. I do like it because you can pick a schedule and it is slightly more money. There are about three Walmarts near me which is convenient and I notice I do not drive a crazy ton of miles. It’s when I accept multiple drop off orders I truly dislike and now I refuse to do them I don’t care how much it pays.
This question is for any one that can answer it. How long did it take you to get approved for spark. I applied over a week ago and haven’t seen my application move forward. Thanks 🙏
Your order may be 9 miles and you might have to travel back, but if the customer gives you a fat tip, that will pay for those wasted miles and other miles also, depending on how much tipping they do outside the app....
13:08 I have either ignored or declined those orders and it affected my metrics. And now I don't see as much offers heading my way. Acceptance rate is unfair in my opinion. I refuse to drop off batch orders somewhere between 9 and 12 orders where it's gonna take x-amount of time where anything can happen in between. It might be worth if you can do it quickly but that's really depends on a lot of factors. Either way now I'm going to have to accept everything to fix my acceptance rate. Also some orders don't affect your acceptance rate i.e. it doesn't go down or up. Edit: Did another alcohol order and the metrics went up a bit.
When I worked for Door Dash in 2020 I had a lot of grocery deliveries it wasn't easy finding locations is important also have to deal with the summer heat.
I was accepted to spark last month but I haven’t tried it yet because customers have 24-36 hours to increase or decrease your tip. That sucks Uber is bad enough with an hour or more.
The orders you have to scan are dot com orders that are usually stacked with multiple orders and customers can't leave tips on them, the orders you don't scan are grocery orders that customers can put a tip in before delivery.
I live in AZ and Walmart has a contract with Uber to drop off the orders. (GrubHub originally had their contract but failed Walmart) so this just started in our area. I have to scan the bar code when loading into my car, and drop off at destination. It will not allow me to do anything until it's done. So one thing I heard you say in the video is your being told how many items that a PLUS, we don't get that info up front. Once I scan the order then it will display every item. So it would be very helpful knowing this before accepting the order. One time I got to Walmart and had 2 associates come out with an order stacked about 9ft high, no shi#. I obviously declined the order and my reason was Item to LARGE to fit. I doubt very much no one picked it up especially for a $6 dollar tip. It would have taken at least a good 45 minutes to unload it. Another thing I ran into is not being told I had a time that it's being dropped off to an apartment. I had a large case of water and soda and it was on the second floor by myself in 110 heat and I weigh about a hundred pounds 😂.
Where are your hot/ cold bags?????😳😳😳 I saw you toss that milk in your trunk directly, no bag for the milk? I know Sam's does not have bags, but you need food protection bags!!!!!
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Id love to chat with you on my experience with walmart spark if you'd like
I still have the scan option during pickup and drop off
They do large batch orders called gmd's twice a day in my market at 10am and 5pm. No way of filtering them either. I done a few of them never been worth it for me. I doordash until I get some other offers from spark. I only do 1 or 2 batch pickups or shop and delivers.
@@johnnyno.5353 It depends on the Walmart Store most of the time, but from what I see, most of the time, only Sam's Club doesn't require you to scan.
Yes I like it . Thank u for the advice
Here's my take since im on multiple gig apps. If you're within reasonable distance to a walmart/sams club and you do other things like uber eats/doordash etc, i find it best to find a spark order, regardless of the number of orders in one trip, to find one thatll put you in a hotspot area for food delivery. That way if you know you arent going to end up near a walmart/sams then you have the opportunity to go on another app
What he said :-)
Ok and what if you dont do any other apps???
You need to work a full 2 days in a row before you consider if it is good or not. Also I suggest working Thursday through Monday. Those are the best days to work. It takes atleast 2 days to build momentum on spark for the week due to tips taking 24 hours to come in. It depends on offers and tips and staying consistent.
The secret is to use a Walmart in a very dense area. Lots of shorter runs
Good to see you actually helping the Walmart worker load the stuff in your car. I do the same, not only to make sure the items don’t roll around and break during transportation, but also to make the job go quicker for myself and the Walmart worker. I cannot just sit in my car having someone load my customers stuff by themselves, I see most other delivery drivers do when I pick up.
I do the exact same thing. Goes quicker and like you, I can't just watch someone load my car.
I guess it’s different in other places bc in New York the workers said they’re not allowed to load orders that are for delivery, the drives have to do the loading themselves.
@@unknownvisitor964 sounds like bs to me. Maybe they like loading cars themselves cuz it takes longer and they get paid by the hour. As a driver, would you trust someone you don’t know to load your stuff knowing nothing will brake? If so, now you got broken eggs in your car’s carpet. Who’s cleaning it, you or the person who loaded it?
Nice people always help out!!!!
No helping in my market, a stern eye with " Drivers need to stay in there vehicle" is what we get. Don't know if there was an incident, maybe they just got annoyed with people trying to do there job for them, I could see that being a thing.
In my market Spark is amazing. I live in a smaller town and batched orders (2 orders) take less than 20 mins to drop off both orders. Five miles or less for both orders. The orders typically drop at the 20 minute mark of every hour. Check into your pickup spot at the 40 min mark as it will not let you check in until the 40 min mark. Loaded up by the 50 min mark and then drop off the orders.
I recommend getting the 70 quart or liter heavy duty plastic containers to put the groceries/bags in. This helps delivery times especially with larger orders. Cuts down on the back and forth to your car to get more groceries. The plastic containers can get heavy. Have one in the trunk and one in the rear seat.
I live in AZ so it gets hot. I also have a large hot and cold bag specifically for cold/chilled items and customers love when I use that and they have adjusted tips when started to use it.
Smaller town with shorter distances is key with Spark imo. Hope this helps. Drive safe!
Maricopa?
Yes make sense in smaller towns and we have to Walmarts here
Good info … I read no lies
My area is a small town with everything spread out, which means most orders are 5 to 10 miles away from the store.
The thing is the stack orders 7-12 is kind of nice because they're usually just a couple items for each one and you don't have to keep going back to the store. My suggestion for you is after you do a delivery just go ahead and Park and wait for an order to where it's near your location and maybe it'll take you back closer to your location. I usually work four to five hours a day and make $100.
I have 5 Walmart's in my city. Spark is so much better than DD, UE, and GH now. It is pretty easy for me to make $100 in around 3 hours. When it comes to scanning, when I pick orders up, 3 of these Walmarts require me to scan and the other 2 dont. I dont know why that is, but whatever. I really love the shop and deliver orders more.
Are you still doing it? If not what are you doing now if it’s a drive gig
Spark has been great for me. I live within 20 minutes of about 20 pickup locations. I average about 32 dollars an hour and on several occasions now ive made as much as 60 per hour.The only frustrating thing is when you wait for 30 or more minutes on an order that says it's ready and Walmart won't increase your pay or anything. They just say they don't recommend waiting longer than 30 minutes. Then that's just 30 minutes or more you just wasted with no pay.
Scan requirement depends on location and type of order... not using spark, but get WM orders on D-DASH.... also, I advise anyone who regularly does grocery deliveries to get folding crates (costco) and a collapsible hand cart (lowes,home depot, etc)
Get spark DD Uber PP they are all ripping you off. You’ll never take another Wally World order from a 3rd party once you see how good some of them can be
I was just thinking that as he had to make 2 trips.
I've done 220 trips, and *none* of them I've done have ever been the huge batch DOTCOM orders. If you want the most out of Walmart Spark, you've *got* to put in *at least* 4-6 hours in a day to make the most of the bonus incentives they give out. Planning to Spark on the weekends and Fridays is key, and depending on the areas, working Mondays is also super busy.
Also starting right at 7AM is also key. Once you get a few runs in, you might get an offer for Shop and Delivery, and those are pretty much the best orders you can get. Walmart Spark is pretty nice, but it just demands a bit more of your time, and you *always* have to be alert when the incentives drop. I've made $250 in just incentives in a week before.
So they have orders where you have to go in and shop? How is the pay for that?
@@ezosoro Yes, and they're pretty simple. Minimum base pay is $19. You follow the prompts, scan the items listed in the order they ask you to pick them up, then head to a scan and go to bag your items where you scan the QR code with your phone. Then the app asks you to confirm everything. There are times where you have to wait for an associate to confirm everything before you leave the store also. IMO these are the best orders because you do not have to wait curbside to pick up orders. You can get started as soon as you get the order, and most of the time, you shop for less than 10 items. I've made $200+ in a day before all of my taxes came in from S&D, so they are always a blessing when you get them, and you usually don't have to drive far to get to the house location. It's usually a 3-7 mile drive where I deliver.
@@gseric4721 awesome. Thank you so much for all the great info 👍
@@ezosoro np man :)
Sparks is great if you have a a few Walmart around you, but if you have only one not so much, sometimes they just sent you an
order like every hour. It's good when you get a shop and delivery.
Be careful accepting an order from a Walmart that might be further away from you if you're not there at the time you're supposed to pick it up they will take it from you and reroute it to another driver it's happened to me more than once
Depends on distance to Walmart, how many locations, and tips. I double miles too so don't get too excited. You also should pay attention to whether it is a small, medium or large order. For those reasons i don't accept a lot of the orders.
The ones with a bunch of drops are orders with one or two items per drop. It's like a miniature Amazon Plex block. That order with 9 drops you turned down was actually pretty lucrative.
Theres a secret to getting spark orders there is even a way to start your trip as soon as you accept it and get your order a lot sooner. E-orders come out at 30 after the hour so if i dont get an order before 29 after the hour i turn sparks off until 55 after and if they are still there at 5-10 after the next hour the surge money will start and it will go all the way up to 8 extra. Shop and deliver orders tend to be the best. I work only Friday-Sunday and I average around $1100 on sparks and $100-300 on my other apps in a medium size town with 2 walmarts . Sparks as of now is killing everything in my area.
Scanning depends on the store. The trips with 10-12 orders takes more like 2 hours. I have been using Spark on and off for a few months and yesterday was the first day that I was able to get a batch an hour. I was able to stack some bonuses but I don’t have those totals yet because they don’t pay the tips till the following day. So, we will see if it was a good day.
There are no tips on the GM orders
:00-:20 past the hour are shop & deliver orders. :21-:40 past the hour are the 1-2 order drop offs. :45-00 are the multi order ones. Just turn it off after :40 of the hour to not get those crazy big ones that not many like. I live 2 minutes from my Walmart so I turn it on at 7am and usually get shop & delivers until 10am, then I do the lunch rush and usually just end my day around 1pm with hopefully $200 in that time frame. If you lived closer to Walmart this would be a totally different app for you.
Dude thanks for this, I live less than a mile from one and I multi app with DD, UE and Instacart (but their new algorithm is bullshit or however they changed it after my first 30 days, I did 45 shops in 30 days and now zero, never see any offers and I’m a 5 star shopper). I get Walmart orders on DD while I sit at home sometimes and every time I actually get a good one that pays like $15 for 4 miles (after hidden tip) I always wonder if Spark has better ones and the ones on DD are ones Spark drivers pass up. I looked on the site and it says full in my area though 😕 trying to find out if there’s any kind of waitlist I can get on in the meantime because it would really help me out to be on there too. I’m on a waitlist for grub hub too, I think it’s been a month because they texted me today asking if I still wanted to be on it 🙄 Doing just food delivery (or whatever is on DD and UE) I’m able to average $20/hr on my slowest days, working for 10 hours usually. Some hours I could make $30+ but then another hour I might only get one delivery worth doing and only make $8-12, another hour $20 etc. On a steady day, consistently getting orders I’ve made $25/hr over 7hrs. Making $1000/week min, 50 hours. I want to get on as many of the apps as I can so that I can try to maximize that profit even more 🙂Also I didn’t know they did shop orders on Spark and I know Walmart like the back of my hand so I know I’d make bank with that app.
@@joemiller2205 I would say maybe sign up for another region in your area and then you can change your area to your immediate area after getting approved. It’s worth a shot. Good luck! Spark has been amazing but there are days when the offers are either not good or there’s none at all. Mondays Thursdays Friday-Sunday are always good for me.
Wow amazing advice on the time frame . Thank you !!!!
Finally got accepted last Sunday, and with all the incentives and just working after I got off work, and ALL Saturday/Sunday, I made $1500 last week
Wow, how long did it take for you to get accepted?!
@@wojurera3131
It says 7-10 days...ez to sign up, I'm just waiting for approval.
@@katman8714 I've been waiting for emails, updates, anything, and nothing has happened, I'm just waiting on the last green circle to be approved
How long do the associate take to bring your items out? Do you have an avg. time on that? Just curious how long do we stay put waiting. Thank you
A little tip ,if your order is ready and it won't let you start trip until later turn phone on airplane mode and you can go ahead and start trip.
Hi Mike! No, you can't filter out those orders but I do get a ton of those multi drop offs. Sometimes I will take them, sometimes not.
The "math" usually works BUT when you consider the stop signs, slow speed zones in neighborhoods, etc, they aren't as great at face value. But when you're coming off food delivery, gotta remember that before hitting accept!
One suggestion I have heard of is carrying plastic totes, either one that is for storing stuff or one that sides that fold up. It helps keep the groceries in place, especially in a trunk.
When you receive an order, you go inside the store and buy them one by one from the shelfs or it's already in the bags ready for pick up and deliver? Thanks ✌️
I live .5 miles from a Walmart Neighborhood Marketplace and about 3 miles from two Walmart Super Centers. Would it be easy for me to make money driving for Walmart Spark?
Delivering food seems a lot easier labor wise compared to delivering Walmart orders, which are bigger and heavier imo. You never know when that order for multiple cases of water or big bags of dog food or 40lb bags of salt might creep in on you. And you know it’s going to an upper floor apartment 😫
They got rid of the scanning and that was a great decision by Walmart. Scanning was by far the most annoying part of the delivery process.
I still have to scan. Wtf. 😂 that is the worst part.
It depends on the order, the store, and if it's a .com order as to if you scan in my area
Walmart didn't get rid of the scanning. It depends on the type of order you are picking up.
Do a 12 to 15 hour shift and really show how much this makes! I love this job and make enough to call it a full time job.
💖 ANSWERS TO YOUR WALMART QUESTIONS:
Walmart created their online pickup department and they allowed for in store pickup of the orders as well but after covid lockdown the in-store pickups began being assigned to be delivered and I think that's where you get some that scan and some that don't because Walmart never went and rewrote their programming, or they never took down their in-store ordering site and customers are still ordering it for in-store pickup and it's getting assigned to delivery because in store pickup which was intended for the customer to pick up, did not require scanning and those simply rolled into the delivery department during covid lockdown.
Bags of single items: A customer's order is never being shopped by one single person. Multiple people hit the floor and hit different sections of the store to fulfill that one order and they are fulfilling items on other customers at the same time as well all from one area of the store and with four or five different people shopping different sections of the store for one order you find single items bagged because it's the last item that person had to pick that goes in that order or all the other bags they have for that order have become too full to add another item. Then all four or five of those people bring all the bags back into the pickup department and all the bags that go with a single label are gathered together and taken out to a car.
Excellent advice
I was considering this as well. Thanks for the info. I’ll let you know if I try Spark.
I just got home from my first Spark delivery and went right to your video. I feel the exact same way. Payout for time and deliveries of all the items doesn't feel worth it. I'll def give it 2-3 more tries, but definitely avoiding any 3+ trip orders... 6 total order took me about 2 hours and 30 mins for $33 payout
how do you feel about it now?
That’s 17 bucks an hr
@@Dana-mo2su Are you driving your own car paying for your own gas ?
UBER eats I did a "WALMART EXPRESS", they used to prompt me to scan at Walmart, but last few "walmart express" pick ups did not prompt a scan.
@Yourdrivermike great video. Unfortunately you are battling the distance to the closest Walmart. My region in Oregon, I deliver Spark from a Neighborhood Market. Small and fast for “shops” and the proximity to most delivery addresses is 9 miles or less. I live nine miles from my Walmart and once I start delivering I am getting one batch an hour. Some are three stops and some are two stops. Sometimes I get a one stop that pays $16 or more for even one item. In between I get time to multi-app and fill in the time until I get another reasonable Spark offer.
Good to see you helped the Dispensers, at Walmart the dispenses hate lazy drivers that don’t help
I haven't done many Spark orders yet but I've noticed the ones that look good up front for pick up orders tend to end up well. This last weekend I did my first in store pickup and it looked decent on the surface, $36, 13 miles and 12 orders. But then you have to get a cart on your way in to the store and hope you can get all those orders to fit in the cart and keep them separate and you have to load them in your car by yourself. It took a half hour just to get the order to my car. 3 of the drop offs I couldn't do for various reasons so I had to take them back at the end for another half hour extra. Took me 2.5 hours total and ended up with $37.50 with my'dress effort'... In store pickup is something I'll never do again. I will continue to try the pickup outside ones as I do like the app and it's very easy to use.
So I have never seen a large batch order that is worth it to me so I have not taken one. But I did just start the other day focusing on the small in-store pick ups… So I had two of them that were literally no more than four small items and they were only going a few miles and I think one paid like $18 and the other one like 22 or 23 they were well worth my time and effort so I don’t know if you get any of those in your area
I’m not on Spark but on DoorDash they have Walmart orders, some are labeled grocery delivery some are labeled in store pickup. The instructions say to go inside but if you go inside they’ll tell you to pull in to the pickup area on the side of the store, just like you’d do for grocery. I wouldn’t do them if I had to go in lol. It’s so busy there, you’d have to park so far away and then go wait in line…they probably had dashers unassigning when they’d have to go inside so they just bring both types of orders out to the car now. Idk I could be wrong but either way I’m happy because I never have to leave my car at Walmart lol. Wish Spark wasn’t full here though. Not sure how they could be, if orders are going through DoorDash.
Broooo the first Walmart you picked up at was like an *Ultra-Mart.* Hahahaaha 😂😂😂😂
6:33 oh I see what you did there. So many different kinds of strats you can implement with Spark.
(edit): That Sam's Club needs to get it together. They usually give us cut-out boxes so we can carry the items all at once to customers' doors.
The other thing I love is that you can see exactly what you are picking up prior to accepting order
Just started at our super Walmart Already made $200 just in kick off promotions to do 5 orders
love it still piggybacking with point pick up at that location
Now that just perked my ears. Think I need to get this Spark app to start tag teaming with PPup.
Where I live people don’t tip. I did 6 orders and got 0 tips. The orders say 2.00 to 3.00 pending. The customer goes back in and removes the tip. They are only tip bating to get their groceries delivered. Trust me it’s not on my end. I make sure I communicate with them if the store is running behind, always follow directions, protect their product, and friendly.
How many months did it take u to start getting regular deliveries and getting the “hang of things” ?
I know as a Ghurbhub and DOORDASH delivery person in NYC it took me like 8 months ?
In my area, scanning is only 'in store pickup orders' not grocery delivery. Sounds like you have a double batch of grocery delivery
You only have to scan on the express pickups which usually tend to be the batches of 10-12 orders that are all 1-2 items each.
Yeah when I do them on DoorDash you scan the ones that say “in store pickup” which is usually the 1-2 items like you said. Grocery orders you don’t scan.
I have almost the same car as you AND the same umbrella in my trunk. 😂
You're so lucky to live in a state that allows plastic bags. In NY we have to use paper bags and the walmart spark delivery bags are about 1/8 the size of a regular bag.
If there is a call to another walmart after your drop-off, then they should be (not will probably) paying for your mileage. Instacart is offering gas assist on orders!
Only 40 cents per batch...
Hi 👋 and thank u for sharing
I’m thinking about signing up to flex and spark
I do point pickup now was wondering if u had thought about testing it ?
Spark is hands down the best. You got to put more then a couple hours in. Also you make more when its busy because you dont have to wait. Also I usually double miles listed because they only put miles to the locations not the commute back.
What do you mean double the miles?
After your last Spark drop off, you could always log into a food app and try get paid to drive home?
I try to do that!
Nah you don’t . Mostly It even takes you farther away.
@@natehailu86 only accept it if it's going in the right direction to get you home obviously
Spark has been good for me. I live 3 minutes from a Walmart that I get lots of orders from. I also have another Walmart and a Sam's Club relatively close. I do get lots of multiple order requests. I see a lot of 8, 9, sometimes 12 orders. The good thing, as with any other app, is that you do have the choice to take an order or not. Spark has been good for me, but I do wish it had a couple more features. Cashing out instantly instead of waiting the whole week, having a button that says I handed the order directly to the customer if the app says it's a contact free delivery, etc.
That’s not good with not having the option to cash out especially if you need the money right away for bills or gas.
I signed up for Spark and it says there is a cash out option. But the first time you use it it takes 6 days to initiate if you will. But after that, they claim you can cash out daily. Idk, just what I read from their site.
@@seanmurrell85 Oh nice! I haven't been doing Spark as much lately but I'll have to check on that. Thanks!
Yeah, I just read it again and it says there's a quick pay option in the my wallet section. Of course it says your bank has to accept these kind of transactions but, I believe most do.
It’s all market dependent. I have 8 Walmarts within a 15 mile radius. The barcode scan of the orders depend on the store. 5 of my Walmarts
require a scan and 3 don’t. I can ping pong in my market and get 2 $25 or more orders per hour to get $50. Never ever take the multi stop 8+ stops batches as those are money losers. You can’t filter those orders out. If you can find a honeycomb hot spot you can make big money. I have one where most deliveries are 3 miles or less from the store and as I deliver one order I’m grabbing another. If you don’t have many Walmarts and deliveries are farther out it won’t be worth it
I signed up for spark but it's taking me forever to get approved. I used to drive for rodie and and took Walmart orders all the time. I loved it! But now the store is switching to spark. When I drove for rodie I would keep two black tots in my van with 2 types container to keep food cold. Like a cheap cooler and an Insulated delivery bag. It ment I didn't have to go back and forth to my van while delivering
Took me 3 months to get approved. One day after work I randomly got emails and texts messages saying that I was approved. I forgot I had even applied
Get one of those collapsible 2 wheel shopping basket/dolly’s old ladies used to roll around.
Scanning should be mandatory as it prevents accidental delivery to the wrong location
Scanning takes about a second for each order. It's The batch orders that take the longest because they have more orders. I don't like The batched orders either because they should pay more.
Frankly, it looks like it sucks. That first drop off, you said it wasn't that bad, but that sht looked tragic from my perspective lol 🤣
Seems like a cart would be something to invest in if you plan to take larger or heavier orders.
General merch needs complete separate item scans. Groceries only 1 per order and not at drop off.
In NJ no more plastic bags only reusable cloth bags. Their bagging protocol is dumb I combine bags to reduce waste. If an item does not fit In the blue totes the order will he labeled XL… note cases of water do fit but a broom doesn’t so make sure to read the items prior to excepting. I’d rather deliver 1 “XL” order with a broom then a “medium” with 3 cases of water
The thing that sucks about miles is they are straight line mile especially on 12 stop orders. Sometimes they take 2 hours. Yeah also sometimes you do end up far away. Which is where multi apping comes in handy. Or switching zones if you’re closer to another to another store. Also switching zones if the offers are bad. I live smack in the middle of 3 store with the ocean to the east.
There are 3 zones in my direct area. So it will let you switch zones back and forth whenever you want?
@@drburcham yup. You might not get the notification right away that it switched you but it’s instant. You can have offers from the zone you switched from on your screen at the same as the new one. So if you’re getting crappy offer you can switch and see if there’s anything better in a different one. Then if you don’t get anything just switch back and take the ones you didn’t want.
@@bud-da-cherry-picker Thanks for the Info. My area is good but only 2 walmarts. 15 miles away that zone has 5 walmarts and 1 Sam's club. Just want to try it and see.
If you have large batch orders do they ever give you any bonus for the trouble?
Can you please tell what kind of camera you are using I’m talking about the body cam
Initial scan and end scan are still required. I don't know why it's required on some deliveries but not others. The only thing I can think of is that maybe signatures are required on those no scan deliveries. So for multiple drop off deliveries, you can't filter those out.
I do take these because I figure if I'm going to work an 8 hour day, I am going to drive those miles anyway if I was doing ubereats or doordash. In an hour to an hour and a half I have made more money than I would have doing the food deliveries. The pay is consistent versus food deliveries. I have 4 Walmarts and several advance auto parts in my area so it is great here in south florida.
The metric system after 10 trips at Walmart Spark shows if your in green, orange or red which determine your service and acceptance ratw and being on time or late for getting more orders i believe and the scan procedure goes away if your in green metrics
Having a foldable wagon is perfect for sparks
I ALWAYS have a utility cart for those reasons you can't carry all the bags and especially if you have larger or Heavier items
Take a laundry basket and catering bag with you and try to get some spare Walmart bags. That'll save some time and effort.
You're just too far from the stores, that's why your iffy with it. I'm 3 miles from my main Walmart and Sam's, which are side by side.
Can't wait until I see you getting a shopping order. Those are the best
Yeah besides the long drive back and excessive wait times. Walmart spark is pretty legit if you can get past the background check.
Is it your start time? I was also thinking of the location. Could that be an issue? Like with DD, certain restaurants have better payouts. Is this also true with certain Walmart locations? These are things I'm questioning while watching this.
It would be nice if when offerering stacked trips that every 3 orders counted as one trip or something. I get that it saves time and mileage not having to go back and forth for every trip but they gotta sweeten the pot when taking on several orders since like you said it increases the chances of an order not being deliverable delaying the other drop offs.
In Toronto, I use UBER to pickup a max of 2 orders from Walmart. I stopped doing WALMART as soon as I did my first CONDO building. You need to have a collapsable buggy to deliver WALMART orders. I was going to get my brother-inlaw to make a buggy for me.
I just started doing Spark Deliveries last week. I have 3 Walmarts in My Zone and it's very busy in Los Angeles (East San Fernando Valley) Today was my payout (every Tuesday) and I am SOLD. No need to do Shipt anymore because I don't really want to do any shopping.
I just started for spark but I have a problem.They had sent me a link to get started but they didn’t send me a link for my bank info and I tried to call DDI customer service and I can’t talk to know one I just need to know what else to do I’m lost.
How long did it take for you to be approved?
I've been waiting over two weeks 😂
How would one live off of that? Is DoorDash a lot more income? Seems there is a waiting list for any delivery gig, spark opened after a few days.
Idk, I signed up for Spark haven't started yet but in my city, there's like a Walmart about every 5 feet. There's 2 less than 3 miles from my house. Hopefully it works out well.
So is it better to reject unreasonable offers or let the timer run out? I don’t want to have my acceptance rate go down.
I have a problem with Spark with all the downtime. I tried it like you did. The way they structure the process, the driver has little control over the profitability of their time and gas. Also, the offer you are given isn't guaranteed, as they withhold the tip for a few days (ex: offer of $20 turned into $10, then I got the tips later in another earnings entry). I did Spark for a couple of days, and I wasn't happy with it due to no control, and the orders not even being what they were supposed to be when I accepted it.
To contrast, on doordash, you can take or leave any given order. And if there is a delay of some sort, it is the option of the driver to release the order. The driver has more control, even though they may deal with a fallout on the ratings.
I’m going through the same thing right now. I’ll get an offer for $20+, and after completing the order it says I only made $11 or even $7. I just started using Spark and I don’t really understand how it works, do you know if we eventually get the full amount it was supposed to be?
I have 5 Walmarts near me. I think should finish my application and see how it goes?
No filtering no blocking stores that are far away. I have some stores 20 miles away in my zone. My ar takes a hit because i can’t take long offers.
Hey Mike, I signed up for Spark over a month ago and my application is still in the screening process. I’ve submitted three trouble tickets and have never received a response other than the: “we’ll respond back within 72-hours” and obviously they have yet to do so. I’ve also called but the voicemail box is not set up.
Did you have any issues when first signing up for Spark in your area? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
When I registered, the message I got said it should take a few days to clear the check. I finally heard back about my approval TWO MONTHS later!
I was in a wait list, got in after 8 months, I guess it’s too saturated in my area.
I started doing Spark a couple of weeks ago as it finally became available in California. In the beginning I got grocery orders only one or two orders to deliver. Now I am getting multiple drop off (12 orders) and it takes me over two orders to complete it. I remember I kept declining multiple drop off orders and it kept sending me it to accept. Eventually someone took it. Very frustrating. On my metrics my acceptance rate is in the high 80s. They do offer incentives and I was able to get them. I do like it because you can pick a schedule and it is slightly more money. There are about three Walmarts near me which is convenient and I notice I do not drive a crazy ton of miles. It’s when I accept multiple drop off orders I truly dislike and now I refuse to do them I don’t care how much it pays.
I don't take more than 2-3 deliveries in 1 Batch Order
This question is for any one that can answer it. How long did it take you to get approved for spark. I applied over a week ago and haven’t seen my application move forward. Thanks 🙏
Your order may be 9 miles and you might have to travel back, but if the customer gives you a fat tip, that will pay for those wasted miles and other miles also, depending on how much tipping they do outside the app....
Scanning depends on the store.. if they make you sign you don’t have to scan most of the time.
Trying to do spark on Thanksgiving and there are so many orders coming in I can't accept any of them 😂 this thing is going to crash
13:08 I have either ignored or declined those orders and it affected my metrics. And now I don't see as much offers heading my way. Acceptance rate is unfair in my opinion. I refuse to drop off batch orders somewhere between 9 and 12 orders where it's gonna take x-amount of time where anything can happen in between. It might be worth if you can do it quickly but that's really depends on a lot of factors. Either way now I'm going to have to accept everything to fix my acceptance rate. Also some orders don't affect your acceptance rate i.e. it doesn't go down or up.
Edit: Did another alcohol order and the metrics went up a bit.
When I worked for Door Dash in 2020 I had a lot of grocery deliveries it wasn't easy finding locations is important also have to deal with the summer heat.
Sam's club does not bag anything even in store. You have to bring your own.
I was accepted to spark last month but I haven’t tried it yet because customers have 24-36 hours to increase or decrease your tip. That sucks Uber is bad enough with an hour or more.
I don’t take more than 2 drop offs. In my area there are rarely any tips. I did one today 2 drop offs, no tips, around 6 miles and $11.00 payout
The orders you have to scan are dot com orders that are usually stacked with multiple orders and customers can't leave tips on them, the orders you don't scan are grocery orders that customers can put a tip in before delivery.
I live in AZ and Walmart has a contract with Uber to drop off the orders. (GrubHub originally had their contract but failed Walmart) so this just started in our area. I have to scan the bar code when loading into my car, and drop off at destination. It will not allow me to do anything until it's done.
So one thing I heard you say in the video is your being told how many items that a PLUS, we don't get that info up front. Once I scan the order then it will display every item. So it would be very helpful knowing this before accepting the order. One time I got to Walmart and had 2 associates come out with an order stacked about 9ft high, no shi#. I obviously declined the order and my reason was Item to LARGE to fit. I doubt very much no one picked it up especially for a $6 dollar tip. It would have taken at least a good 45 minutes to unload it. Another thing I ran into is not being told I had a time that it's being dropped off to an apartment. I had a large case of water and soda and it was on the second floor by myself in 110 heat and I weigh about a hundred pounds 😂.
I can't wait until they install solar panels where we park for pickup. This would definitely make them money and we really need the shade.
Started here In bakersfield I love it I been making them bands
When does Walmart spark adjust for guaranteed earnings per California law because I know doordash does it the night before you get paid.
How long did it take for them to accept your account on spark drive? 🤔
A collapsible wagons is helpful.
I'm doing some research before I do my first shift tomorrow I have 2 Walmart's that are 4 miles from me so I hope I can make it work lol!
Where are your hot/ cold bags?????😳😳😳 I saw you toss that milk in your trunk directly, no bag for the milk? I know Sam's does not have bags, but you need food protection bags!!!!!
I hear y’all say use a tote , to carry groceries in. Just imagine carry that up stairs at a apartment complex. Too heavy for me.
I deliver for Spark. The app prompts me to scan the labels upon pickup and also upon delivery.
Are we aware of Alcohol in order before accepting the orders?