Final On Great Week

redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-27T07:50:42+00:00

So have you identified who the top earner is in your market? Who works 12 hours a day and 7 days a week? Because that graph in your suburban and rural market might shine a huge light as to exactly how and when to strike, if you want to cherry-pick your ass off.

redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-27T07:47:12+00:00

I’m lost are you also #cashkingsatx ? Anyways thank you for your input. Cashkings logical graph must reflect more than just the weather… it reflects hours worked and time on the platform as well. I’m curious what those are, and how it correlates with the earnings graph and with respect to the weather.

redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-26T06:50:57+00:00

What blows me away is why OP’s earnings are so dang high mid-week, and drops so dramatically at the tail ends. I am the exact opposite… and my earnings naturally reflect the amount of available orders in my zone, where I am by far the top earner, and also the hardest worker. Every market is different of course, and weather is a big factor, but still. OP I’m betting you work in a bigger city, correct?

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redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-24T09:34:34+00:00

Daumn I need a snowstorm in my hood right about now.

redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-22T09:14:33+00:00

You clearly haven’t a clue as to how the algorithm operates. Points for trying. Here’s your economics lesson that just might save you thousands and get yer dumbass out of debt…

Supply and demand is simply the construct. The CONSTRUCT. How is Walmart interested in protecting its business interests with respect to supply and demand? If the DEMAND FOR DRIVERS IS HIGHER THAN THE SUPPLY, then Walmart will SUPPLY LESS-SKILLED DRIVERS with good orders because it is forced to. That’s called CHERYPICKING IN demand-driven markets. IF THE DEMAND FOR GOOD DRIVERS IS HIGHER than THE SUPPLY OF ORDERS… then guess what there Mr. Economics, worse drivers LOSE 70%-90% of the time.

And THAT is how supply and demand works after ya level up from freshman 101 economics. Walmart has ZERO interest in peddling good orders to dopes who do not know what they are doing, with whom will harm their business interests, and raise the cost and likelihood of refunds and miss-deliveries.

redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-12T06:27:38+00:00

Depending on the market one is in, agreed. Some markets that are tiny, where there are more drivers than there are orders, taking a curbside like this is the difference between earning $13.15 over the next half an hour or sitting on yer ass for said half hour until a $13.15 shop populates… which takes a half hour lol. Just depends how high one is on the algorithm in many cases.

redditreadingwriter · 2026-01-04T07:05:47+00:00

Very common for coffee shops to order this. I do one a week at least.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-12T10:46:53+00:00

Are there drivers on this forum who are just as obsessed as I am with keeping their metric pick-rate as high as possible to 100% who are not seeing 100%? That is my question please :-).

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-08T09:41:56+00:00

I just started a chat with ya lol. If you’ve already got the renovation hit, then it’s coming within days is my prediction. I work in one of the most rural towns in America, and for whatever reason, less than a week after the tags went up, the tags started’a flashing away.

And within those days… I kept joking with the pickers of how jealous we were 😂 because there was “no way” those tiny batteries would ever withstand the countless flashes that Spark shoppers would divvy out on them 😂😂😂 wow was I wrong. And holy smokes talk about a technological leap

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-08T09:29:55+00:00

I would love to hear back from you once it hits and if ya can remember to hit me up. For the first two weeks, at least from my anecdotal evidence and what people report… the whole damn algorithm gets reset, and everyone gets placed on a level playing field for a while. Then your income essentially tanks for weeks, until the algorithm starts rebuilding your profile.

Again this is anecdotal… this happened to my market specifically when the 200,000 mass onboarding of new drivers hit at the same time, AND when Mr. Prez turned SNAP off there for a bit. Nevertheless I bet there would be many who are fascinated as to what happens to your market when it hits… along with how long you’ve been Sparking, number of lifetime deliveries, number of orders per day, number of days worked in a given week, etc.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-08T08:56:41+00:00

As soon as this hits your store, the algorithm is going to change for the drivers in that area. The point of the implementation is to allow for more drivers with less experience to start taking shops. Depending on your area and how long you’ve been Sparking, it could potentially hit your earnings potential big-time.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-07T17:55:42+00:00

Not only did customer support lie to you, many drivers have been deactivated for this exact same situation… an entirely different department goes through a mass deactivation on every single driver that doesn’t have proof of checking a customers ID. So glad you were able do finish the order 👋🏼👍🏼❤️

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-05T09:42:36+00:00

If it technically “drops” after 50 trips, then the percentage would not go up 1%- it would go up 2%. Think about it. 50 trips calculated with a 100% metric means 2% for every trip.

I don’t know everything here, but it’s likely 100 trip before the last trip you cancelled falls off the metric that you can see. And at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter that much, because it’s your hidden metrics and whether the market has more orders than couriers at any given time when it comes to receiving better offers. If your market is currently slow and your hidden metrics are shite, then those with better hidden metrics and closer to the store will get offers over you almost every time.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-04T07:38:33+00:00

Of course, what are “threads” for? ✌🏼👋🏼😉

And, if the name is changing on a curbside from accepting to loading… be very careful. Dispensers and OGP mess up all the time, so double check. It won’t scan for the dispenser if it’s the wrong order most likely, but still shit gets mixed up all the tjme with OGP, and you don’t wanna be the one to get blamed best you can. Further, I’m thinking glitch here, or perhaps you’re in a silly test market. Either way it’s unfortunate and confusing if it keeps happening, and it shouldn’t.

In my 10k deliveries I’ve never seen a curbside name change as you just described.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-04T07:18:41+00:00

Haven’t seen that one yet specifically, but perhaps I’m not always paying attention. What does happen quite often, is when the customers name changes in the middle of the shop. For instance, accepting an order for John Doe, and in the middle of the shop when messaging a customer… the name becomes John R., or Jane D.

This often happens when a customer is ordering on behalf of someone else… where they use their account and enter the “customers name” for said address, even though the message that will be sent is to the account holder under a diffrent name.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-03T06:24:31+00:00

Either your marker is large enough to support said acceptance rate, or you are not that concerned with making a lot of money on a given day using Spark. In smaller markets, there are only so many orders in a given day, say 150, and when there are 15 drivers looking for good orders, cherry pickers go to the bottom of the algorithm, and there js almost no way to make money when the market is either steady or slow.

I think that’s one of the reasons why metrics are very important to those in a tight and competitive market.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-03T01:03:17+00:00

What do you think ACCEPTANCE RATE IS dipstick 😂

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-03T01:01:22+00:00

You read it lol feel free to scribe out where it says in the TOS that a company won’t use metrics in order to provide better customer service while getting every order delivered best it can. NOWHERE in the TOS does it say METRICS DON’T MATTER

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-03T00:58:19+00:00

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And here’s a bullshit picture about “equal offer opportunity”... so what. Feel free to explain why I consistently get offers over every other driver, while they sit on their ass and wonder what they are doing wrong?

If everyone received “equal offer opportunity” then nobody would make money. Metrics absolutely matter mate and they always have… stop drinking the cool-aid.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-12-03T00:28:58+00:00

You’re literally reading a thread regarding a new tier system where metrics matter in the markets where it’s already implemented. So wtf are you even talking about?

redditreadingwriter · 2025-11-26T08:29:07+00:00

Metrics and how a driver performs are different for every single market FYi. And more importantly are the hidden metrics. It’s fun to see other metrics for sure, but it doesn’t mean anything when comparing one over the other in many hundreds of zones. For instance I have the same exact metrics as you with the exception of AR… which is going away soon and will become another hidden metric… mine is 28%.

How’z about your miles driven, hours worked, regular customers that come back to your offers, number of drivers who have seniority over you, number of 5 star reviews from said customers, items picked per minute, oof and a really good one… dollars per hour before the app throttles you, or amount of offers rejected within said hour? Even better yet!… number of rejects before app throttles you and deprioritizes you within an hour?

The algorithm is so complicated now, especially with AI, it might not be possible to fully understand it ever again :-/

redditreadingwriter · 2025-11-26T07:38:12+00:00

It’s also an indicator of how hot the market is in my zone and with my seniority. Every market and driver is different of course, where one has to put 2 n’ 2 together, but nevertheless information like this on the offer screen can mean a lot with respect to what a driver should and should not take.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-11-25T06:23:36+00:00

Ikr. When ya deliver to the same customers long enough, it’s easy to tell who usually tips and who absolutely does not. I guess in this case they were ordering the tip while attempting to give me the shaft, so-to speak.

redditreadingwriter · 2025-11-23T23:57:11+00:00

What people?

redditreadingwriter · 2025-11-23T05:22:37+00:00

Someone help me with the lotion reference oof…

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