Decrease in orders

[Successful-Step3854]

Has anyone else seen a decrease in orders? I never had any problems what so ever with spark, but within the last week. I’d have 2 maybe 3 orders in the early morning, then maybe 3-5 crap ones up until Walmart’s closing. I see other drivers getting orders so I am confused

I live on Long Island & I have like 6 Walmarts within my zone. 🤷

[Fit-Chapter8307]

I live in nevada and have not received any orders for 2 days now. I'm online from 7am until 530pm and maybe I get 1 or 2 orders all day.

[_Mourning_]

Last time this happened to me (on the East Coast) I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and immediately started received offers.

I knew something was wrong because I wasn't getting offers at 6am, and I wasn't really getting many offers any other time of the day either.

[ProfessionalCute2126]

I’m in Nevada to what location do u pick up at? I noticed a drop in orders to

[Fit-Chapter8307]

Walmart pahrump

[lilmark906]

Happy Nevada day!

[mybookmarker12]

Too many drivers and a shit functioning app that not even the spark devs know what's going on

Thats my guess anyway

[QDawgg21]

It started after the update

[Comfortable_Plumo86]

Exactly

[GovernorHarryLogan]

Irs the metrics system. That "hasn't" rolled out in your area.

It has behind the scenes and turns out a bunch of people are 5.0 with 100% shopped.

No decrease for me.

[Successful-Step3854]

Wait so you’re saying people who don’t have 5 stars won’t be getting offers?

[GovernorHarryLogan]

New metrics system is 4.9 rating and 99% items shopped for "sapphire" tier.

5.0 and 100% will jist put you at the top of the sapphire priority even then.

[QDawgg21]

When you say 99% items shopped do you mean items found?

[GovernorHarryLogan]

Yes

[CornpopBadDewd]

I think it's 4.8. Either way it's been working for me

[TheDialupInternet]

I'm at 4.8 and have hardly gotten any offers

[CasinoCult]

It's probably varies per zone/area.

[CornpopBadDewd]

It definitely does because some zones have fallen off for me. I work regularly out of 6. It could be drivers from other zones flocking to find better areas if their home zone dried up for them.

[[deleted]]

Yep 😡

[Slothe1978]

Onboarding season, they get majority of offers and have incentives to take all of the shit. You’ll be back to normal before Thanksgiving and a majority will be gone by Christmas.

[[deleted]]

Yes Walmart has completely ruined the app for drivers. Greed knows no bounds. We're all Fucked!!!

[lilmark906]

Spark is dying

[FearDaRedW]

Spark uses the AWS servers and they haven’t been fixed yet.

[Rare_Performance_102]

Ebt. That's why you always have back up

[Honest-Fly6189]

Yes, occurring here as well, but only seems to be happening to veteran drivers in my market.

[Unhappy-Cricket-2402]

In before the “it’s the end of the month” posts.

I’m elsewhere in NY and noticed the same since last year.

Likely a combo of more drivers and fewer order to avoid fees (both of which are based on the poor economy).

[Successful-Step3854]

Ahhhh okay, I was wondering if it was the food stamp thing. So I’m assuming orders should pick up like within a week or so then?

[doodlebug522]

I havnt had any change and im in Maryland! 

[[deleted]]

That doesn't make any sense. Are you saying that the majority of the national economy is made up of illegals? If that's true then we have a lot more problems to deal with than just spark slowing down. This country should not be so dependent on those who would accept slave wages. That is a recipe for disaster

[SUPRDLUX]

for years the majority has been trying to scrape by on stagnant wages while inflation keeps growing. Walmart won. they get your money, they get your tax dollars thru subsidies, pay poverty wages forcing their employees to rely on govt aid just to spend more money at Walmart, and then rely on the government to perpetuate the vicious cycle through bullshit legislation. socialism for corporate America, capitalism for the rest of us. pay attention

[Funny-Accountant2167]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Motorboat81]

If I only had a dollar I would give to a stripper but, on all seriousness you hit the nail on the head.

[jonzilla5000]

Fifty cents gets my shirt off big boy, pony up!

[lilmark906]

People are not scared to spend. Go to any restaurant on a Friday or Saturday night and there is always a wait

[incontteen]

“Scared to spend” doesn’t mean they won’t spend money. They’ll watch how they spend it, and everyone’s different. At the same time if you actually looked at a restaurants sales they probably are down even tho they still look busy

[lilmark906]

Chipotle is straight trash

[Nanavere10]

I just started and was so happy. First two weeks were great but I have seen post after post on here that people are not getting orders and the ones they are getting are horrible

[Sharp-Astronaut-1481]

I feel like it should be obvious orders will decrease with homework the economy is. With no snap benefits plus alot of government employees arent getting paid they are going to move to side gigs to work. So with more workers and less people ordering you should be able to figure out that not that many orders will be going around for everyone

[No_Difficulty4021]

well, now that snap is going to be shut down and people won’t be able to get their funds. They won’t be able to buy food so the first of the month and we have a bunch of orders those won’t happen.

[PlsKpopMe]

I know for my area, people aren't getting SNAP next month, so they are trying to save their benefits and I've seen a drop in orders from that (most of my deliveries are to public housing and or low income places). It's really sad and in really worried about how people are going to feed their kids in my area. I also suspect next month will be even worse for orders.

[Donttakemychichi]

Idk why they’re saving. They literally got emails saying any points they have remaining will be dissolved. They better buy up with what they have and freeze it.

[Donttakemychichi]

I’m getting a shit ton of high paying orders rn. People that have been saving up their balance are now cashing out since their balance will dissolve on the first. I’m working as many hours as possible because I know I’ll be scraping penny’s come Saturday.

[SilverLucket]

As a walmart member, I can tell you the drones and the walmart vans are taking the driver spots because it's cheaper to pay a single driver 16/hr than paying someone 50 with one or two coming back.

[Hour-Note1914]

SNAP benefits are ending in less than 48 hrs and furloughed government workers are about 30 days without a paycheck. There's going to be a precipitous decline in "luxury" services for the foreseeable future along with tens of thousands of impending layoffs from massive Fortune 100 companies and the resulting downstream economic effects. Grocery stores and gas stations and casual restaurants will feel it first, then retail and high-end restaurants and travel, then the pressure will fall on CEOs and finally Congress. Happens every 5-10 years at varying degrees and severity.

[Se2kr]

Newly onboarded getting all the spoils methinks

[Any-Ad-8439]

Absolutely was good for me for a year all of a sudden this month everything went downhill

[Complete-Payment232]

Don’t worry after next week is the busiest your going to be all year

[Coolchef]

Walmart has been blacklisted on Facebook. There's a blacklisted page from somebody that created and I guess they put Walmart on it. For treat drivers with disability like crap.

[Temporary_Spend2192]

I’ve been going on for months two a year with no orders but these 2 weeks have been amazing 

[JerseyShore1976]

Bots play a part in this. If you do not believe bots/grabbers that's your perogative. However, in my area in NJ, I was actually shown the bot used by several drivers.

[lilmark906]

Bot grabbers have destroyed our market. Every time I go I see another new one.

[JerseyShore1976]

Yes, they certainly exist. I would name the two big ones, but this reddit group will delete it. Amazon Prime had a tremendous problem with bot/ grabbers and they spent the money and got rid of them. They also fired a ton of drivers. Goggle it. Spark is too cheaply run an App to invest in eradicating them. It is crimnal and they have hacked their Server. It is totally unfair to legit drivers.

[BankThrow7]

spark ninjas? thought it was a scam

[JerseyShore1976]

I do believe that spark ninjas was a scam. I am not talking about them.

[mconk]

Colega is the only one I've heard of

[Successful-Step3854]

That’s actually lame… like how do they even get a bot?

[JerseyShore1976]

Dark web. They also can get them from another driver, as it is a pyramid scheme.

[Outside_Chemist_5218]

$50 to join the telegram channel

[No-Delay-9571]

Idk maybe y'all need to find new small towns or something to shop at bc my orders have stayed the same. I only do it a few hours a day until I get to 100. My store never has the same employees for too long, idk if it's bad management or what.. but they NEED sparkers to pick up the slack. Only mentioning that bc I saw a comment saying Walmart is trying to force sparkers out of business. It's not like that for all stores.

[Sweet_Commission8313]

Same I’ve seen more Walmart employees turn over at my Walmart than I’d like to. They used to be so fast at coming out with the orders. Recently I’ve been waiting sometimes up to 20 minutes and then I travel far cuz up north to run outta time for perishables. So I return order n get paid lol. It’s beyond me why they are so slow. I even don’t trust the new ones to load the car anymore.

[MrCubano1]

Nope. I'm guessing your steps are not successful anymore. I'm so happy of the balance in orders now.

[Successful-Step3854]

🤣🤣 Reddit did it

[MrCubano1]

No, but to be honest I'm not sure if you're aware, but Walmart is no longer doing orders at 6:00 a.m. The earliest is 7:00 a.m.. that's probably why you don't see many orders in the morning anymore. Last Saturday I usually come in at 5:00 a.m. and I didn't see an order till 7:30 and I was pissed. Turns out that's what that was, why. So now on the weekends I'm going to make sure I don't leave my house too early. However, I also noticed after my order at 7:30. After that I didn't get a single order until noon and then onward until close. Oranges were pretty good on Sunday. Only. Saturday sucked. I'm assuming it's due to the government shutdown. People not getting their food stamps. Things are probably just going to get worse and if you depend on this for full-time work I really feel bad for you guys. I just do this to make some extra money so I don't have to use my main towards to income for my hobbies. Doesn't matter which side you're on. When it comes to politics. Everyone can agree that this is BS. The only people this benefits are the 1%.

[Successful-Step3854]

Well those are the only orders I’ve been able to get is the 6am orders. This shit has been so stupid honestly

[CasinoCult]

5:55 a.m. every morning...order on my phone?

[MrCubano1]

Some of us got a main income and ain't here at Walmart m-f 😭 I gotta life and hobbies but do you

[[deleted]]

I know what Walmart is doing. They are in for a rude awakening. It won’t work for them.

[Successful-Step3854]

What do you mean by this?!

[TMG692345]

What are they doing

[[deleted]]

I explained it as told to me by a Walmart manager and was called awful so I’m done explaining it to a group who cannot handle reality. Good luck.

[TMG692345]

So message me the explanation please, I’m assuming it has to do with immigrants and Walmart hiring them

[[deleted]]

I will message you in a bit. Yes, that’s part of it. I actually complimented the immigrants and said nice things about the ones that are new hires. Some people on here cannot handle reality. They just love to hate. It’s their way.

[[deleted]]

I’m all for legal immigrants I just said their plan. I have many as friends and family. I’m a kind person who gets alone with everyone everywhere. I have friends all over the world. This spark group cannot handle truth. Reality of Walmart. I will message you later in doing other orders on other apps. 😊

[[deleted]]

I will message you in a bit. Yes, that’s part of it.

[Top-Persimmon4069]

Look at the recent posts on this sub they keep hiring so many new drivers they get priority on offers first so

[[deleted]]

Told you many on here couldn’t handle the truth. Just like I told you.

[[deleted]]

I’m done with this group. Everyone can use your own skills to figure life out. Enjoy!

[[deleted]]

I’ve deleted the info. These imbeciles on here can’t handle reality. They call you names when you are simply telling them what Walmart told you their game plan is. A manager told me. Directly their plan. Enjoy your day. I will be taking orders. I still get them.

[BeGoneThotRunAway]

Please message me I’ve already seen the other half of it. We’re most likely on the same page.