Driving For Walmart Spark (FULL POV Shift)

[@YourDriverMike]

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[@Mattlanderson]

Id love to chat with you on my experience with walmart spark if you'd like

[@johnnyno.5353]

I still have the scan option during pickup and drop off

[@johnnyno.5353]

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.

[@gseric4721]

@@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.

[@Dana-mo2su]

Yes I like it . Thank u for the advice

[@Mattlanderson]

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

[@Ellen-il6dk]

What he said :-)

[@leeknievel748]

Ok and what if you dont do any other apps???

[@cranewolf6124]

That’s right

[@NextStopNovember]

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.

[@seanmurrell85]

I do the exact same thing. Goes quicker and like you, I can't just watch someone load my car.

[@unknownvisitor964]

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.

[@NextStopNovember]

@@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?

[@lazhun4574]

Nice people always help out!!!!

[@terrencediggler5882]

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.

[@jrb9191]

The secret is to use a Walmart in a very dense area. Lots of shorter runs

[@markhumphreyjr2114]

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.

[@kennygp2004]

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!

[@glassy4366]

Maricopa?

[@Dana-mo2su]

Yes make sense in smaller towns and we have to Walmarts here

[@LUCKHEF]

Good info … I read no lies

[@AmbientShades]

My area is a small town with everything spread out, which means most orders are 5 to 10 miles away from the store.

[@AngelfromGenX]

💖 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.

[@Dana-mo2su]

Excellent advice

[@davidellis7786]

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.

[@dylanroach5465]

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.

[@BG5850]

Are you still doing it? If not what are you doing now if it’s a drive gig

[@neilcavanaugh549]

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)

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

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

[@Jana-TheCraftyGambler]

I was just thinking that as he had to make 2 trips.

[@gseric4721]

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]

So they have orders where you have to go in and shop? How is the pay for that?

[@gseric4721]

@@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.

[@ezosoro]

@@gseric4721 awesome. Thank you so much for all the great info 👍

[@gseric4721]

@@ezosoro np man :)

[@jbon9319]

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.

[@danisdelivery4919]

: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.

[@joemiller2205]

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.

[@danisdelivery4919]

@@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.

[@Dana-mo2su]

Wow amazing advice on the time frame . Thank you !!!!

[@drburcham]

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.

[@greenemachine2837]

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

[@jaysonzdaddy41605]

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

[@wojurera3131]

Wow, how long did it take for you to get accepted?!

[@katman8714]

@@wojurera3131 It says 7-10 days...ez to sign up, I'm just waiting for approval.

[@wojurera3131]

@@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

[@Daniel-nm6zq]

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.

[@waynefoutz]

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.

[@daveheel]

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.

[@djester6298]

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.

[@hairyhairyme]

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.

[@auntmishie]

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.

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

There are no tips on the GM orders

[@TheSmartSister823]

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!

[@bethevans5511]

I was considering this as well. Thanks for the info. I’ll let you know if I try Spark.

[@avsterbone]

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.

[@ron5767]

I still have to scan. Wtf. 😂 that is the worst part.

[@angieodell88]

It depends on the order, the store, and if it's a .com order as to if you scan in my area

[@vanrathbunjr5278]

Walmart didn't get rid of the scanning. It depends on the type of order you are picking up.

[@mrchills23]

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

[@dstewart207]

how do you feel about it now?

[@Dana-mo2su]

That’s 17 bucks an hr

[@skyangel6336]

@@Dana-mo2su Are you driving your own car paying for your own gas ?

[@highlandreelvsbricksandmor9996]

Good to see you helped the Dispensers, at Walmart the dispenses hate lazy drivers that don’t help

[@jasonisblessed]

@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.

[@otarsulava]

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 ✌️

[@danieleb2945]

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.

[@Ellen-il6dk]

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

[@joemiller2205]

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.

[@evanwetzel8397]

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.

[@KARENSUTERA]

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

[@WaiOfTheHub]

Now that just perked my ears. Think I need to get this Spark app to start tag teaming with PPup.

[@pab702]

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 😫

[@Wyatt_Riley]

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.

[@joemiller2205]

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.

[@baldeagles18]

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 ?

[@alireinhardt3874]

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.

[@kyleallen4849]

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.

[@Anomalous602]

That’s not good with not having the option to cash out especially if you need the money right away for bills or gas.

[@seanmurrell85]

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.

[@kyleallen4849]

@@seanmurrell85 Oh nice! I haven't been doing Spark as much lately but I'll have to check on that. Thanks!

[@seanmurrell85]

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.

[@KARENSUTERA]

The other thing I love is that you can see exactly what you are picking up prior to accepting order

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

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]

There are 3 zones in my direct area. So it will let you switch zones back and forth whenever you want?

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

@@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.

[@drburcham]

@@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.

[@ezosoro]

If you have large batch orders do they ever give you any bonus for the trouble?

[@maxreynoso]

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

[@joannealbrecht9745]

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

[@AnthonySmith-nj3he]

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

[@jeremybartalone3717]

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.

[@cynthiapenn8697]

What do you mean double the miles?

[@tonyd4346]

Get one of those collapsible 2 wheel shopping basket/dolly’s old ladies used to roll around.

[@l0ckmanjohn]

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.

[@MoonMoney97]

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.

[@hokinsont3681]

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.

[@scottc3571]

Scanning should be mandatory as it prevents accidental delivery to the wrong location

[@KARENSUTERA]

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

[@survivingtheratrace8587]

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.

[@gigaholicrex]

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

[@Kurosaki259]

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.

[@richthadanger7136]

Started here In bakersfield I love it I been making them bands

[@BigDaddyKai620]

Yeah besides the long drive back and excessive wait times. Walmart spark is pretty legit if you can get past the background check.

[@synthesizerisking2886]

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!

[@TheEnigmaticBM39]

Only 40 cents per batch...

[@WhateversClever777]

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.

[@mintmost9225]

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

[@timothyzakaria7397]

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.

[@gseric4721]

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.

[@BobbyParker784]

In my area Southeast Texas it's called Point pickup they are the company that does the deliveries. I worked for them and door dash

[@joefromthe515]

Greetings from Des Moines, Iowa 😎 how long have you been using Point and what are your thoughts? I would be very interested to hear 😊

[@dsncarruthers7477]

Change Walmart's and turn down the multi stop orders, also start earlier 6:00 or 7:00AM if you can.

[@hyderarastu9529]

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

[@dannywalker1635]

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?

[@rowenastringer6490]

Thank you for speaking the truth!!🥳🥳🥳🤣🤣

[@nedstrader7494]

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.

[@dolphindave1966]

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

[@Mariaaaaaaaa213]

In my area, scanning is only 'in store pickup orders' not grocery delivery. Sounds like you have a double batch of grocery delivery

[@missblebron87]

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.

[@JamilaKatura]

I don't take more than 2-3 deliveries in 1 Batch Order

[@pete4020]

After your last Spark drop off, you could always log into a food app and try get paid to drive home?

[@nativewear23]

I try to do that!

[@natehailu86]

Nah you don’t . Mostly It even takes you farther away.

[@pete4020]

@@natehailu86 only accept it if it's going in the right direction to get you home obviously

[@rhondacampbell2592]

A collapsible wagons is helpful.

[@vickiekesley2831]

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.

[@earlsmalls]

what i usually do after they load my car, i pull into another parking spot in the parking lot and consolidate the bags that have only one item in them, of course only cold with cold items. Makes it easier to pick up the bags when i get to the customer.

[@seastar421]

Seems like a cart would be something to invest in if you plan to take larger or heavier orders.

[@colts93]

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.

[@mrsmagandelatour]

Yeah I live far away from Walmart and yes they send me a lot of Walmart locations with incentives and bonuses

[@JamilaKatura]

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.

[@alexmauricio1608]

I have almost the same car as you AND the same umbrella in my trunk. 😂

[@trainmap]

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 🤣

[@3202eduardo]

Having a foldable wagon is perfect for sparks

[@zibtihaj3213]

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 ?

[@NewYorkAstoria]

Can you please tell what kind of camera you are using I’m talking about the body cam

[@roberthammond4642]

It depends they go back and forth sometimes they scan sometimes they don't

[@nancyhoward7005]

Giid advice and I am learning alot

[@seanmurrell85]

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.

[@DD-mu6ud]

Yes.. please help the associate. It makes it quicker for everyone.

[@luxuryqueen42]

👍👍👍

[@Souploop0729]

Scanning depends on the store.. if they make you sign you don’t have to scan most of the time.

[@pomona4977]

Sam's club does not bag anything even in store. You have to bring your own.

[@mlkrgr]

Spark has been a disaster for me. First time the employee took 20 minutes to come out and I just got impatient and accepted a better order on Uber. Second time I noticed they quoted the trip at 9 miles but the real miles were at 12.5 miles. I contacted support over it and they wouldn't make an adjustment. Uber then comes to the rescue and again. The incentives are nice and are perhaps the only thing that keeps it under consideration.

[@robinspriggs1468]

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

[@BigDaddyKai620]

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.

[@synthesizerisking2886]

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....

[@BG5850]

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.

[@fuzzypancakes123]

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!

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

Nobody wants those multi stop orders because they take so long. So they will start adding money, sometimes up to $12 if it sits long enough. $41 for 35 miles it’s terrible. From pick up it would take you an hour and a half. If you end up getting $53 plus any promos it not terrible if you aren’t getting anything else. I will take as many grocery orders as I can with tips. Those ones pay a lot better and you can bang them out. After a little while all I will get just those multi stop general merchandise orders. So I figure for $53 I’ll take it because I’m getting nothing else. At times it seems like it won’t give me anything else until I finally take that order that’s been sitting all day that no one wants. The good thing is it’s general merchandise nothing that’s going to go bad. Also nothing that anybody’s looking at the clock waiting for you to show up with. So you can turn on Uber eats or door dash or any other app that you have. Take orders going in the same direction and do them at the same time. So now over the course of two hours. You’re making $53 plus any other money you’re making from other apps. That’s how I make two $2000-$3000 a week.

[@jrb9191]

Ii have done a few and they are easy peasy. Usually done in 40 minutes

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

I’m not in a highly populated area. So they always add one or 2 way out of the way. It’s the miles on them that can kill. If the miles are low enough and the pay is good. Yes easy peasy. The one he showed was like 40 miles. Straight line miles so more like 50-60

[@jrb9191]

@@bud-da-cherry-picker even one out of the way 7 freeway miles is nothing. I done four and they were all 8-10 stops, about 13 miles apart . Heck, a lot were literally across the street from each other . The last one is usually 5 miles from the other, but the ones I took either got me close to home or next to a Walmart within 4 miles

[@bud-da-cherry-picker]

@@jrb9191 what if you live in an area that doesn’t have a lot of freeways? The ones that are there weren’t built in a way that helps with multi stop zigzagging orders. What if the ocean is to the east and the 3 Walmarts in the area are all 30 minutes away from each other? What if you live in an area that isn’t densely populated? The multi stop orders include stops in 3-5 different towns?

[@miketrejo1072]

To scan labels is 5 and more orders. You should invest in a wagon to put Walmart groceries in

[@mariewallace149]

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 😂.

[@music80s65]

Walmart is 15-20 minutes (Choice of 5 different ones) from my house or on 5 minutes from the interstate on the way home.

[@robertfarley2854]

In my market Spark is the app to use. I have 4 Walmarts, 6 Marketplaces, and 1 Sam's Club. All but 1 walmart is always busy in the app. after a delivery i am normally within 2 to 3 miles from the closest walmart, so turnaround time is pretty quick. I have Made over $400 in one 8 hour shift before, but my average is about $200 to $250. I can see having only one walmart would probably not be worth using Spark.

[@kacywhite]

As s 5 yr GrubHub driver I’ve seen multiple possible problems that could occur! First of all there’s a lot of bag to door issues for me, and the weight of the the items should be listed up front! If they give you 4 mins to accept then they SHOULD SHOW YOU SHIPPING LIST OF ITEMS( I gave a disability where I can’t lift heavy items, so that’s a bad fact I see. Plus I deliver food to lots of apartment complexes and if you have lots of items and a 2/4 stairway climb it could be very hard! Soooo.. I’m thinking I’ll stick to food delivery..

[@cafelate9515]

My thoughts it is not easy to ge the just grocery drop offers. When I sign in many gives the multi drop off. Lucky I found a good 3 drop offs that drives me back to my home. I don’t take the multiple orders that is going further.

[@erikceballos7428]

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 🙏