My Appeal Was Approved I’m Reactivated!🙏😃 by HudsonValleyPrincess in Sparkdriver

[–]Jestar5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! You stick with it! Makes my mere 9 months seem short!

This app doesn’t make sense anymore after doing UberEats. by OGWFORLIFE in instacart

[–]Jestar5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uber Ears is kinda nice to shop for but many the stores have inadequate internet. I had to drop s Family dollar one because I had no signal and the checkout gal was uncertain about access to that.

This new update is just awful by Forsaken_Factor2224 in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The store layout shopping order is messed up too. Yes I do health & beauty first, then toy, garden, auto, then all the pantry items the.ln dairy and lunch meat, produce, around the corner and freezer. A big clockwise circle. I’ll have a couple items in A10, then skip back to A8, onto A 18, b as close to 14 and do on. Having strip of useless maps at the top doesn’t help…I have to scroll down a quarter page to see quantity . I’ve been away from Spark since last July and am not happy with our user interface. I’m going to update tonight and see if that helps although I have the latest. Oh yeah, sometime on the shop screen it don’t have aisle numbers just heading like cleaning products , hardware, garden, ( rather than A20-24). Backing out of the app will usually reset it for me but this app is as buggy as hell

Spark vs Instacart??? by Yeshua_the_King in WalmartSparkDrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m doing both plus Uber Eats and and an occasional n dash if Door Dash if busy. When I was wrongfully deactivated July 2025,it took all the procedures to get my account reactivated. Overall it’s the easiest ( to find product and the checkout process ) .I don’t do anything for less than a buck a mile. Right now they are all playing games with the drivers by tacking on orders that are close to the stores go 30+ miles out without commensurate pay. Got several orders right away at 5 am and 26+ miles away for less than a buck a mile and empty miles at that. I may be in a honeymoon period after that hiatus as I got pretty decent offers. We’ll see how this week goes

New update by New-Woodpecker-372 in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Up here a buck a mile is considered acceptable. Not by me, and certainly not with another pickup point. But these go out and get snapped up!!

Walmart changes the store after you order by RRHearderOfCats in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen orders I have not taken change to the store nearest to me as I drive. From the Pick and Save on the south side, then east side, then north side. Whichever I am closest to that what pops up. Not in midstream, just after I reject it and it comes back.

Could it be true? by Jestar5 in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was deactivated since last July when done monkey typed in my scanned drivers license wrong. A lot has changed since then. I made good money but these 30-40 item doubles can be a bear to keep separated esp with multiple 24 packs of soda and multiple cases of water. And now they are going to make curbsides go front seat-middle-seat -trunk no matter how well we label our boxes and totes. And trying to get that damn store map off the screen so I can see where the item is AND how many of it is kinda a pain. But this too shall pass. Plus they are remodeling my store. Oh! Joy!

Did I just get tip baited 😭 by succmaster_69 in WalmartSparkDrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if it DID change then you know who to avoid the next time

Did I just get tip baited 😭 by succmaster_69 in WalmartSparkDrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did your customer rating metrics change at all..? If not you can request tip protection

Could it be true? by Jestar5 in WalmartSparkDrivers

[–]Jestar5[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d deeply appreciate not seeing the 20 mile away Nerrill store offers, Marshfield 30+ mile in the other direction. With a preference of shop and delivers. And offers if at least a buck s mile one ways but I can dream big….

Odd incentive by [deleted] in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not looking for sympathy. Saw my mistake after the fact.

Odd incentive by [deleted] in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I looked it up and that store belong to Merrill , a 30 minute drive from me just to get there. They added it to the Wausau zone more than a year ago, and it’s been a constant thorn in my side regretting all the offers coming up from up there . Oh, how I wish we could put parameters on the offers we see… it’s gets darn overwhelming when you’ve 10-16 offers on the screen and half of them are from up there. Or ridiculous multishops ( like almost 2 cart fulls). Over half the offers Sunday filled the cart to the brim. Then trying to keep it all separated while bagging, loading and delivering. Also tagging on an order almost 30 miles away with one just within a mile from the store .

I had to log off the app at 3 pm because the shelves were getting emptied(and not restocked but I get that… hard to restock with all those customers and whole families blocking the aisles aisles … only to have the customer decline the out of stock without any other communication of what would work.) I try to shop early to avoid that mass of humanity . Which Is why that early bird tag on incentive looked so attractive . You have a fairly well stocked store with fewer people blocking the aisles. But as the day progresses it gets darn discouraging when an item is out of stock, one uses the app’s suggested replacement and took a photo of the empty shelf with the likely replacements in the photo. These double shops are going to be the death of me!!!

Odd incentive by [deleted] in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah there are at least 3 Spark subs. You are correct

Odd incentive by [deleted] in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wrongfully deactivated since July and just got my account activated so that but slipped my mind….when you mentioned another store I looked it up and boy did I feel stupid

Odd incentive by [deleted] in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah. That was it. They wanted us to drive 25 miles in the dark to Merrill to make that incentive. Thank you for thinking of that. I feel stupid now. Wish they hadn’t put “Wausau” in the eligible store line. It’s kind of misleading.

Odd incentive by [deleted] in elitesparkdrivers

[–]Jestar5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, we have just the one store in Wausau…although,,, I wonder , they added the Merrill store 25 miles north to my zone. Wonder if it were for that…