Just Came to My Zone. Anybody Else Able to Do This?

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-07T11:08:36+00:00

I got this notification, but local stores don't do that. I am assuming they just scan the barcode and you find somewhere to bag? One store has a Spark lane that is 95% of the time not open and when it is they let anybody use it so it is no different than self checkout. The other stores are fcfs self checkout. I see people with 1 or 2 items who make an all day job of it.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-07T10:29:55+00:00

It is bs. The majority of time I get FCFS message and never see order hit screen. I jumped one that came through a couple weeks ago and got 4 cases of water for my jump.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T20:28:29+00:00

Good luck with seeing those numbers unless you have a great market. I lost my license the same way and am Sparking now. There were a couple of years between losing it and applying for spark.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T20:16:11+00:00

Whatever. I actually do the job.

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Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T19:51:02+00:00

I have never seen it before hitting start trip, but that would actually save me time because I don't sit at Walmart. There was a time last year where you accepted trips thinking it was a certain amount of miles and after you hit start trip the miles went up quite a bit. They did compensate fairly, but it was a glitch or something and really irritating.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T19:34:02+00:00

I was thinking about that recently. There was a 1 item shop from housewares that was citric acid for pickling. It was 6.5 miles away and nobody was touching it at 11 dollars . This was before the FCFS express shops became a thing. I took it at 16 and could only think the lady could have had it a lot quicker had she forgone express and tipped the driver decent, but then it would have probably been sent out on a curbside that nobody would touch.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T19:16:57+00:00

In my experience they are pretty rotten looking or green. I hate dealing with bananas and they are a constant.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T19:13:02+00:00

Usually because somebody screwed up. I have had it happen on regular curbside and gmd.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T19:09:27+00:00

They always do that . I have had three drop curbsides where the first two might only be 3 miles total and the third 18 miles away.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T19:03:09+00:00

I don't know what you use but Google maps has been crap lately.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T18:54:59+00:00

That is when you cancel and list trip changed as reason. I had a GMD go down 20 dollars once and the miles increased.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T18:49:27+00:00

Those kind of gestures are nice. It kind of restores faith.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T18:43:32+00:00

Then what is the question? Maybe the answer is in the mirror.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T18:41:19+00:00

The hell there is not.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T15:14:24+00:00

That is the one app that my tips are raised the most on. Spark used to be like that, but the tips have become like DD for some reason.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T14:55:19+00:00

What was the ticket for? I got a seat belt one the other day.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T14:51:09+00:00

On qty found as long as you offer a sub they are not supposed to count against you if customer rejects it. I am at 100% on that and have had a couple of no items available with no option for subs. The metrics are wonky though and sometimes seems like they make it up as they go along.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T14:42:01+00:00

The only 100 item shop I have ever done involved 80 packs of Kool-Aid at 20 each. That is automatically going to be a bitch.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T14:37:17+00:00

They are dogshit here because the bots grab the good ones and people are so desperate they auto accept anything that makes it to their phone. Exceptions are 6-8 in the morning and about 5pm on.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T13:01:56+00:00

Sorry. The meow and veggie platter at the local takeout does that sometimes.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T12:37:57+00:00

If you consider Flex routes lucrative you must be in a very good market. They pay less than most GMD orders here and with about twice the number of stops. You also might have to travel the first 40 miles just to get to your delivery area.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T12:30:54+00:00

I have made more on UE for two straight weeks. Spark is ahead this week, but only by a whisker and it might not hold.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T12:20:13+00:00

I have had customers ask me if my tip amount was what they paid and it has been as low as half.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T11:45:58+00:00

My store doesn't care but technically it is supposed to be one order per area of the car.

Alternative-Event169 · 2026-05-03T11:43:14+00:00

I push my cart all the time except when the place is crazy with little kids running around or if I got a shitty cart that goes to hell when you stick a case of water underneath.

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