Driving For Walmart Spark (FULL Shift Complete Review) | 2024 

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I love Spark. Currently doing spark in North Louisiana. I make between $1200-$1500 weekly working 6 days. It's all perks to it. My favorite is being able to set my own schedule. I wanted to get away from over the road trucking but I wanted something similar to trucking like being my own boss and working off to myself. Spark fits me perfect. I'm very happy I now get to go to the gym every morning and I'm home every night sleeping my own bed not in the back of a semi truck

Yesterday I did my first ever 8 hour shift gigging. I ended up doing all Walmart spark except one Uber Eats. With the completed incentives during the time, I ended up making $307. I am loving Walmart Spark.

I just started doing spark and I love it I use to do Uber eats and Instacart still do but spark is a game changer thank the lord I really needed it my family was in a very tight spot make that money !

Mike, thanks for your videos! You're in good company. I've gone to the wrong Walmart and ended up calling them and asking if I could still drive over to the correct location. The guy was nice and asked if I could make it within 30 mins and I said yes. It wasn't a huge deal and was able to complete the delivery.

The thing that sucks the customer tip baits because they have 24 hours to change tip amount

Glad to see someone else from PA and close to where I live so now I can get a more accurate reading of what it’ll be like for me

If your selected for a cart check it's 3 items. We don't have to use specific bags at my walmart, we just bag with regular plastic bags in the self checkout section and leave

I love the curbside pickups! I never have to wait more than 5- 10 minutes...ever! They are very fast at my little walmart (pop. 15,000) I can make $100- $150 easy every day in about 6-7 hours.

Thanks for the new video!

Thank you for this video. I'm trying to change things up from doing Lyft and Uber for a bit.

West Mifflin Wal-Mart - god i love this channel. I work from home and live on Western Ave so i never drive but i always like warching you drive around these neighborhoods. In worked at Century III Mall at Merry Go Round when I was a kid.

Being a former Walmart employee is a perk especially when looking at the modules. In fact I've gotten a little annoyed because I probably could have shopped more efficiently if I didn't have to follow how they wanted me to shop.

Spark has become my main gig now. My experience has been great, I regularly get $30 plus orders.

I started last Friday after 7mo long approval & of course my 1st order was shopping for 4 large cases of water but at least dropoff was simple at house with driveway close to front door. So far, I like working Spark over UE & DD.

I wish they had those bags here, that makes the presentation look nice. Spark is so good I love it so much, it is kinda of harder finding the clothing but once you get use to doing it, it's not that bad. I prefer shopping for customers because curbside takes to long or they forget things.

Spark was great! Super great! Till about new years…since then, there’s been a huge over saturation of drivers, and orders are quick to disappear when offered…..ALSO, in my market, Walmart is giving the grocery pick ups to UberEats still to avoid paying any kind of incentives

Can you do a video about prop 22 for spark drivers! I/we need a little bit more understanding on how it works and how much do they actually pay you for delivering! Thank you! Loved your videos very helpful!

Your experience with Spark is far different than mine. I just go to the local grocery only neighborhood Walmart 1.5 miles from my house. I receive offers when I'm home. Did four deliveries today, two shop and deliver, two curbside pickup for 32.09, 34.95, 22.95, 17.30. 31 total miles driven less than 3 hours of time spent waiting at curbside / shopping / delivering. Pretty typical day. For me it is absolutely the best time to $$$.

I like the multiple stops, by my experience they are all seeled packages usually light loads. I enjoy them 🤷

Spark is much better than doordash in my area and the shopping orders are the best ones. If pickup takes forever you wont make it back in time to get another offer the next hour and lose out. But i also work in a slower area so the chance of getting another offer immediately is less.

Lov this dude i live down the street

Not really feasible thing for me to do but i really love the way these sorts of things are developing. Its almost gamifying work/earning money. Downside is such a thing becomes quickly saturated. We'll see.

We don't have to use any special bags. I work in the hometown of WalMart. The Walmart headquarters are across the street from one of the Supercenters. The zone I'm in has 10 different stores within about a 10 mile radius. There's a store on every corner! lol And it's a "company" town so there aren't really any other grocery stores except 1 Aldi, so everyone buys from Walmart. Keeps me busy for sure.

what camera are you using looks so clean!

I only have two Walmarts and a Sam’s in my area. I’ve been doing it for about a year and I DoorDash too. I never have to wait at Sam’s or the two Walmarts. I figured out a way to make it work even though it’s kind of shady. The guys have been usually the same guys that load my car every day and they know my car and they know me I get out of the car and I cut up with them and talk to them and other cars looked at me like how did she get her stuff first. I’ve even got one guy that I raise the hatch up on my van he puts the stuff in the back while we talk and he comes around and puts the orange and white stickers on my steering wheel for me.

We don’t have specific bags for spark in MW Florida yet. And the batched orders are in bags like Amazon has with a sticker on it so it’s super easy if the dollar per mile is good

I haven't done the shop and deliever yet. For some reason been to nervous to do it. For curb side we have normanly 3 drop offs. I am in Erie pa.

Yes, you are correct yesterday. I left for an hour and a half waiting to see if I get a decent order and nothing was coming in. Everything was for 12 miles eight dollars pick up three stops for eight dollars going 10 miles. It is really really bad and you are correct we used to enjoy working on this platform but right now yes it’s not looking good

I work with spark ⚡️ it is a good side hustle for a good day of work! Only thing I have been hearing when doing curbside pickup Walmart employees told me there talking about getting rid of spark completely and hire the drivers to work under them at the location!?

Shopping isn't too bad but I try to avoid orders that have clothes. It's always a nightmare trying to find clothes even if they tell ya exactly where they're supposed to be. We don't have the special Spark bags here in MA. Also, the 19 item deliveries are so worth it. They're usually always close to 60 bucks and take less than 2 hours.

Spark used to be great for me but not anymore im in north texas in a major city but I barely can get a good order because the second orders pop up they get taken by other drivers IMMEDIATELY.

I follow, subscribe and a fan.. You couldn’t be more incorrect on this one.. I live a jump zone away and its a full time deal if you want it to be. Potential for $1000 and up a Week.. consistently. Yes its true. I do it

Im about an hour and a half East of you. I do Altoona/Johnstown, neither Zone requires the special bags

I drive for spark and it works for me most weeks because. I live 2 miles 2 miles 2 miles 6 miles 6 miles 10 miles Away from Wal-mart sams club Home depot And AAP So can work whenever I want with this platform and so well. My fill work would be Lyft.

I've been kicking around spark. I'm in Kittanning not far North of Pittsburgh. Door dash has been treating me well so far I like shopping orders I may give this a try but Armstong and Butler County's are big and there's a lot of rural areas. Have you ever been up to Kittanning? Only time I'm I. West Mifflin is when I go to Kennywood. Do you also remember the Centere Three Chevrolet Lebon church road Pittsburgh..Minutes from the mall TV commercial.

must be a good hustle, i tried to sign up to drive for Spark and it said my area is full and not accepting applicant drivers, to try back at a later date. Logically it makes sense in knowing you are likely to make more money in tips for bringing someone 10 bags of groceries for a delivery compared to the Doordasher whos only delivering a sandwich and fries.

Spark is my favorite app. I make more on there than DoorDash. I could write a novel but I’ll keep this short…I’ll do shop orders with 50 items if the pay is good but I hate having to find clothes too lol. That is interesting you have to go get different bags, none of my wal Marts have that. In my market curbside offers go out at 20-40 after, and pick up is usually 45 after the hour (I noticed yours was). So if you want offers stay close to the store(s) then. Ideally take a short doordash or something in the downtime.

We don’t have that here where you need to use a specific bag. We bag our stuff at the self checkout using the regular Walmart plastic bags

Those 15-30 stop runs are pretty much identical to Flex. Only difference being is the fact they might throw some random bulky item in there. Other than that those runs are package delivery. I’ve done a couple. Other than the occasion bulky item, they’re not terrible if the payout makes sense. Especially if it’s slow

there is only one walmart in my area. it actualy ends up being more consistent and better for me than doordash, uber eats, and instacart. and i only do curbside.

Why do I see the same people getting shopping orders but never curbside pick up? What are they doing different?

I Use Spark as a filler app because I have one close to me and two others not to Far away. Never had to use “Spark Bags” in Philly.

So dose Spark have a GPS that give you directions when you drive or do you have to use a gps app?

Do you have available video for taxes part am getting confuse how to take the takes out before I depoist money to my bank

I live like 2 miles away from Walmart and across the street is a Sam’s club. Should I do spark ?

Of all the gig apps I say Spark treats me the worse. Had multiple times where I am waiting 20 mins on a schedule curbside pickup. There times Walmart cancels a high paying order right before I arrive to pick up an order. And Walmart refuses to pay me a dime despite already wasting 10+ mins driving. Gone back a forth like 5 times with Walmart support in email form about this and they refuse to pay me because of a glitch. And there also been times they paid me under $3 when an order gets canceled after waiting 20 mins at the store. And a majority of the offers pay dog crap without tipping. And they allow customers to remove tip for any reason within 24 hours. BS. Yes, there are times nothing goes wrong but when it does it is very stressful. As Walmart refuses to pay us for our time.

Mike! Spark used to be my go to. I would make on average 200-300 a week (part time). I havent done a Spark delivery since Jan 1. That was my last good day

it also depends on the market. new york california and a few more states all of the gig apps pay for a 40 hours work week. if they don't make the money equal to 40 hours the company will give the difference, but not all states do that.

Regarding the bags, we don't have to do that in Florida. I'm 5 minutes from a Walmart so I don't have to leave home to get orders.

If you multi-app Spark can mess you up, especially if you're close to a Walmart. Many times they post the arrival times 15 or 20 minutes out, and they absolutely will not let you arrive early. Not only do you lose the time up front, but if they are late with the order you lose more time. Last week I burned 35 minutes this way. A notice came through on the app that they were going to compensate me for the long wait time, and I am still trying to figure out how much it is...the earnings section of the app is another story....

I gotta go to a diffident location for Walmart Spark. My metro is full.

At least I have the luxury of having 4 Walmarts in my Spark zone which gets rid of many of the yo-yo-ing you’re talking about, but wait times still suck in many cases.

The more stores the more you make but How many Walmart are there in Pittsburgh?

Shop and deliver orders are the way to go with spark. The wait times once you get to the stores for curbside pick up can sometimes be extremely long. The 10+ stop deliveries are a colossal waste of time. The pay looks nice on paper but you will be taken way out of your zone. You can make the same amount of money with 2 to 3 good shop and deliver orders.

Drivers need to take into account when accepting a delivery the mileage they are going to drive for that one delivery or bundles of deliveries add Sparks loves to bundle a whole bunch of deliveries together. They have to keep in mind that if they are driving 20 miles for a bundle of deliveries that pays $25 for example for the entire bundle of deliveries, the true mileage is going to be 40 me because you have to take into account that you have to come back to get another one. That puts you at about 60 cents a mile that will have to cover your gas and your wear and tear on your vehicle. Most of the time is better to take a delivery that only pays $10 but you only drive three or four miles away which would make it a 6 or 8 Mile round trip. You spend less gas so in the long run you make more money

And sections are the section of that ail, ie in grocery section 3 is the 3rd group of shelves. Modual tells you the item number, these are usually in numeric order left to right to help you find items quicker.

My spark app no longer has a blue screen only shows a map of of area saying searching for offers has anyone experienced this new transition

We don’t get very much money on the big batch order (19 stops) and miles are high, so here it doesn’t make sense to take those

my biggest question would be, when you’re doing this during the day, what happens when like you said, you get a decent order, 10-15 bucks for 5 miles, but you have to wait in a unimaginably long line to get to self checkout. My Walmarts have mind bogglingly long lines.

I have waited for a curbside order 35 minutes past when the app said the order was ready.

I make trash in middle tennessee. There are days I'll be on for 9 hours and only receive 6 or 7 deliveries. Maybe 60$ per day. It's horrid, and there are 2 walmarts and a sams club in my area and a few other places that use spark delivery. On top of that, the pay rate per job is worse on daily payout versus weekly all jobs are no more than 12-14 or less on daily pay where weekly is like 14 - 30 depending.

Where you bought the camera

My car gets great gas mileage. I dont mind the multiple stops. I dont like dealing with sams. They take too long to bring stuff out, and i don't like shopping. Also in my area i have multiple places i can get hits from. 2 super store wal marts, 1 sams 2 groceries only wal marts and a few other buisnesses that use spark so im rarely doing much dead head driving

Is mileage really $1.18 a mile reimbursement right now?!

Why aren’t all deliveries pick up only? What is the difference between shop and deliver and pick up and deliver? Besides the obvious… is the customer charged differently? New to the channel and gig work. Thanks in advance.

Do you get Walmart Benifits, especially the health insurance?

It’s deff a fair gig

WHAT is the money to mile ratio considered to be good

I have a Walmart 5 minutes away and they send me offers from 30 minute away store 70% of the time

1 stop

I'm confused. How do you bag your items if the paper bags aren't near the self check machines?

Yeah apparel sucks never want those. Out of stock or impossible to find. So irritating. I prefer curbside and I don't mind the multiple stops but the pay isn't as good. They always send me far away for at least one or two.

I see on Facebook lot of uber drivers get orders from Walmart and the pay like over $100 for like 2 hours, have you guys seen anything like that in Pittsburgh?

Instead of having multiple offers I'm only shown one offer at time and I must wait for the offer to expire to see the next is is anyone else experiencing this

My Walmart doesn't have those bags i wish they did I'm in indiana

I park a block away from Walmart and don’t get any orders do I need to be in the Walmart parking lot to get more orders?

A lot of comments for dollar per mile and dollar per hour kill me. Here's what I do: How many hours are you working per day and how much are you making for the entire day? Then, subtract the amount for Gas and you can budget accordingly for Maintenance and Repairs. In my area, there are 2 primary Walmarts. One Walmart has a ton of orders, but a low staff means an average wait time of 2 hours per order (after you've accepted it as a driver). So, that Walmart is ignored, whereas the 2nd, main Walmart rarely gets orders but every single order is ready to go at the designated pick up time. So, sometimes, I will go 1-3 hours with no orders at all while still being "available" in the app with Sparking turned on. I've realized that it's smarter to walk around in the Walmart to get my steps in during this wait time and it helps keep my sanity intact. But if you took an $8 order for 12 miles round trip with a gas mileage of 22 MPG City on $3/gallon of Regular gas, then you're making money for that hour, rather than making no money for that hour by receiving no orders. I'm averaging $100/day (after gas) during this slow season and did $120-$160/day (after gas) in Q4 2023. I work weekends only (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and work from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. Here's the thing: Each Walmart Spark is run by a different manager for that department. Each manager is the one that dictates whether you receive ASAP Curbside, ASAP/Express Shopping and Deliver, or Regular Versions of Each. In this video, your Walmart Department Manager for that particular store wanted you to receive Regular Shopping and Delivery Orders. This is smart if they have Low Staff available that are not able to handle the 'picks' as they call them ('pickers' are the ones doing the shopping with multiple orders on a large cart in the store). What you seemed to miss in this video was a couple of the 'sweet spots' orders that you can take. 1) Yes. I would take the 15-20 Item Trips in a heartbeat! Why? They're all package deliveries! You're practically the mail man!! Seriously! Think about it. Shipping a package costs $4.13 via USPS Ground Advantage for a 1 oz Package! Instead, Walmart pays you $2 for a 1 Oz package to be delivered! So, Walmart saves money. Now, the downside is that these orders do not allow Tips; however, I do receive cash, in-person tips approximately 5% of the time with these package deliveries. The other downside is the packages vary in weight, size, amount, and have to be sorted by Scan labels to ensure faster delivery. In addition, GPS Screw ups are quite common and your job is more difficult because the Postal Worker only has to take the package to the Mailbox which is at the end of the road - you, on the other hand, have to deliver directly to the customer's house, which usually does not have House Numbers on their House or a Post on their driveway/front porch. 2) You missed the small grocery orders that are 20-50 items and you seem to misunderstand the bags ratio and bags being counted as an item. So, there's Items, Quantity, and Bags. In a 20 item order, there may be 50 Quantity. 20 of the 50 Quantity are most likely Bags. When you click the actual section that details this, it shows you a break down of each item PRIOR to accepting the order!!! You will actually see: "Bags (18), 2 Liter Mountain Dew (3), 12-Pack of 16.9 Fl Oz Dr. Pepper (1)" etc. These particular orders are sweet spots because you can get multiple items of the same item. So, grabbing (6) 2-Liter Bottles of the same brand and type on the same Aisle will be significantly faster than grabbing 6 items on 6 different aisles! 3) Express Shopping and Delivery and ASAP Curbside Pickups have a tendency to pay better than the Regular Deliveries. For Regular Deliveries, the customer doesn't mind waiting, but YOU DO! Why? Because you make less per hour! So, you can get to Shop and/or Pickup faster and get paid MORE money!? That's a win-win! In addition, sometimes, I get an in-person cash tip from these deliveries if I deliver within 30 min to 1 hour of the initial acceptance of the delivery! They are genuinely happy that you sped up your shopping and took care of them.

I’m 1 mile from Walmart in a rural area, I just wait at home for my first order🫶🏼

I recently got deactivated from spark it was my primary gig Job I enjoy it because it’s always high volume in my area, DD is high volume as well but I got used to the high pay with spark 😢 i was home earlier now Im doing DD and it takes me a longer time to be done with my day

Cant get a spark order to save my life. Any tips? Only orders that come in are crappy ones at the end of the day that no one wanted. Please help.

How do u sign up??

Can any one help me I was driver more than 2 years for spark and got deactivated for no reason

The worst on Shipt is a Special Request clothing item, gives you no location or image and with Special Requests you can scan a toothbrush and it will go through. Also makeup products suck if you aren't familiar what to look for.

Walmart plastic bags suck. They are too small and flimsy. Hopefully we get those Spark only bags in KC soon.

I have 3 Walmart stores 10 min from my house .

I live in a zone with 6 Walmarts and none of them give bags to the shoppers any more. On top of that, in NJ plastic bags were banned. Also just to point out, the shop and delivers are way more profitable. You don't have to wait on them to bring them out and usually don't have a set pick up time.

Do you have the organized crime scammers in your market?

Today I accepted an order for $18.59 for 7.9 miles. I thought it was from the Walmart I just delivered for, like you did. Little did I know the Walmart was 17 miles away. I couldn't find how to decline after I accepted. Bummer

I find that Spark is definitely hot at times and cold at other times. I have only regular Walmart (not full grocery supercenter) in my zone which only puts more importance of using spark as a filler app granted the Apple store is busy b/c I have about 6 regulars who are resellers that get multiple deliveries on some days and make up the bulk of their deliveries. I also find Spark is very variable on a zone by zone basis on their pay. Went online at the zone just south of Boston and found shop and delivers for like $30 going 8 miles and only a few items, and that is with no tip. I ended up taking an Apple store in that zone which was still an offer better than I'd normally get at $34 for 8 miles especially since I was closer to that store than Walmart. Same Apple store run is $26 in my home zone; and I've been in another zone wheich that similar run would be $12.

Our Walmart does not require us to use certain bags

Can someone help me, I have called Spark Customer service and have not received any help. I'm a new Spark Driver, I'm also on Social Security Disability. With that being said if you work any job. Social Security Administration needs information of your employer to add to their system and to keep up with my earnings. I can on make so much at a job. With being on disability , Social Security needs the physical address of Spark delivery. Does anyone know or is it. The Walmart that you pick up your deliveries? If I don't get this information I will no longer be able to deliver for Spark

All the money you make with Spark it goes back in your tank

How I could know its shop or not I hate shopping..

The base rate pay per order is pretty low. Without tips, not good. It’s hit and miss. Becoming highly over saturated in many areas.

How does spark compare to instacart? I quit doordash because i hate them tracking my acceptance rate

I cant even get trips

Can you do deliveries only? And not shop?

do you uys see lets say around 6 hispanic drivers that are taking over 3 orders an hour, or you see them come back within 20 mins and park in the pickup stall and wait for 30 to 40 mins to grab the next order? and you don't see an order for more than 3 hours. but you see the same drivers getting over 3 orders within an hour? if you see those drivers getting more offers then you, and if they are making over $1000 a week, that means that they have an app that grabs all the great offers. i've seen it in my area. i took a month vacation, when i came back i saw 6 or so new drivers. they all had 2 cell phones, and they where the only ones going in and out of walmart with offers. i used to deliver to regular walmart customers that tip great and didn't drive far either. i have not seen a single delivery from those customers since i came back from vacation. i am left with offers that are under $10 and a lot of miles. the only time i get good offers is when those drivers are not there.

Sometimes multi stop orders come in, and they expect you to do 5 or 6 stops drive 30 miles and the pay is only 24 dollars and hardly no one is tipping. It's ridiculous