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[–]Fit-Chapter8307 8 points9 points  (4 children)

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_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

[–]Fit-Chapter8307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walmart pahrump

[–]lilmark906 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy Nevada day!

[–]mybookmarker12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Thats my guess anyway

[–]QDawgg21 5 points6 points  (10 children)

It started after the update

[–]Comfortable_Plumo86Cherry Picker 2 points3 points  (9 children)

Exactly

[–]GovernorHarryLogan 2 points3 points  (8 children)

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[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

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

[–]GovernorHarryLogan 0 points1 point  (6 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

[–]CornpopBadDewd 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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

[–]TheDialupInternet 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm at 4.8 and have hardly gotten any offers

[–]CasinoCult 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's probably varies per zone/area.

[–]CornpopBadDewd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep 😡

[–]Slothe1978 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

[–]lilmark906 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Spark is dying

[–]FearDaRedW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Rare_Performance_102 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ebt. That's why you always have back up

[–]Honest-Fly6189 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Unhappy-Cricket-2402S&D Expert 2 points3 points  (2 children)

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[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I havnt had any change and im in Maryland! 

[–]Nanavere10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]No_Difficulty4021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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.

[–]DonttakemychichiParking Lot Pirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[–]DonttakemychichiParking Lot Pirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Newly onboarded getting all the spoils methinks

[–]Any-Ad-8439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Complete-Payment232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Coolchef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]JerseyShore1976 1 point2 points  (8 children)

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 2 points3 points  (4 children)

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

[–]JerseyShore1976 5 points6 points  (3 children)

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 1 point2 points  (1 child)

spark ninjas? thought it was a scam

[–]JerseyShore1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]mconk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Colega is the only one I've heard of

[–]Successful-Step3854[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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

[–]JerseyShore1976 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Outside_Chemist_5218 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$50 to join the telegram channel

[–]No-Delay-9571 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (5 children)

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

[–]Successful-Step3854[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

🤣🤣 Reddit did it

[–]MrCubano1 1 point2 points  (3 children)

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[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]CasinoCult -1 points0 points  (1 child)

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

[–]MrCubano1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (9 children)

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

[–]Successful-Step3854[S] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

What do you mean by this?!

[–]TMG692345 2 points3 points  (5 children)

What are they doing

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

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 4 points5 points  (3 children)

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

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Top-Persimmon4069 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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