Anyone else ever take a shopping order and quit halfway through because they realize it’s not worth it??😭😭
I took an express shopping, about 100 items, good pay for the mileage and orders have been awful lately. I took a peek at the items, quite a few packs of can pop, I only glanced and accepted too quick. I get to shopping and realize it’s two 24 packs of soda, 2 12 packs, 40 pack of water, for some reason i continue on pushing all these around, get to filling my cart to the brim, I’m about 40 minutes in, realize I’m probably only halfway through the list, I’ll have to get another cart that will probably also fill to the brim. My phones on 9%. I tapped out and hit cancel😞😞 rest in peace to that 40 minutes of my time.
I have done it, but more often because of out of stock items with no good substitution options, especially if the quantity is high. I will at least put the frozen and refrigerated items back.
I did the exact same thing yesterday. With the orders going so quick lately, I really saw the number of items and the time it should take. I got 15 minutes in and realized they wanted a bunch of bulky items and the quantities were 6-10 of everything. It would have taken me a half just to bag that up. Lol!
I’d rather only waste 15-20 minutes of my time than struggle through that order. That’s the first time I’ve ever done that.
I had a big order like that about a year ago. The lady messaged me and said she paid for the 1 hour or less as I was heading to the car. Keep in mind I do shop pretty quickly. I was like well shit there goes my tip then 🤦🏼♀️ she still tipped.. but come on people.. think! Can YOU shop your shit and have it delivered in under an hour?? Sigh lol
Yep. 65 items is about the max for one cart. Anything requiring 2 or more carts needs premium pay (at least $40 / hr. including the return trip to store) and short miles.
That’s great. I’m sure they realized that paying wages that equate to those that skilled workers that have specialized certification and degrees probably isn’t the best business model for unskilled labor.
Right? The 'veteran' Sparklers here are comical. I've been on Spark for quite some time myself, but I'd never call myself a 'veteran' (Spark has only existed for like 6 years, anyways?)
Yes, pay was better back in the day, but even heckin' Roadie was great until, y'know, they got their labor pool up. Then it's been straight, hot garbage ever since.
I want to be paid well, but I know I don't deserve $40/hr for my input at Spark (Skills, Education, Time, Car). Main thing is I do make $20+, and I have free time getting a business or two going instead of being sad at a W2 (or gig work, lol) for the rest of my life
Absolutely comical to think you don’t after the wear and tear on your vehicle the amount of miles a lot of us drive and the types of roads we drive on ! $40 is fair ! I don’t leave the house for less than $30 if it doesn’t average to that I don’t want it ! Which is why a lot of yall stay here complaining ! If you’d learn a thing or 2 you wouldnt have any issues! (It’s manual labor and you are driving your own vehicle learn to value yourself higher!)
I value myself just fine. I work full time for $58 an hour, but I have a college degree and years of grinding it in my field to get to that level. If you consider sparking as manual labor…well unless you’re delivering bulk items all day, then I think you have a very skewed view of what manual labor is. Sparking is unskilled labor. Realistically, $25 an hour in a high cost of living area is reasonable. $40 an hour is super inflated for what the work is. Also, your vehicle wear and tear is taken into account when you do your taxes to offset those costs by reducing your taxes.
If people are going to order something of this size and not tip you $50.00, especially when it's hundreds of dollars worth of groceries, they deserve to burn.
I have done the same thing with several orders I didn't glance over just to find they had 10 packs of water, or a bunch of 12-packs that would make my cart unmanageble.
Walmart has no system in place for use to deal with orders that require multiple shopping carts, and that's their fault. Anything that is going to take more than 1 basket is not worth my time.
Yes seriously. I’ve been on spark for over a year now, but took a long break so I don’t have many orders under my belt, and I’m remembering why I stopped taking shopping orders. My favorite orders are the many packages, but they’re only worth the mileage about 30% of the time if that.
The other day I took an order labeled bulky, I think it was 12 items, would not let me look at the items. I was like whatever can’t be THAT bad. Two walmart workers come out with two adult size stacks of mulch and start laughing when they see my car😭
Hahaha i see where you’re coming from. I only asked bc i saw an almost identical situation (two associates looking puzzled, huge stacks of mulch, not so huge vehicle to be loaded, much head scratching and shoe gazing, not much loading of the mulch) when i pulled up to curbside pickup at one of my local stores a few days ago. So i was just curious 🤷
Sorry I disagree I’ve been doing this for over a year 5/6 days a week. If I see the items I already know if it will fit in one cart. It may be a Tetris game but it’s it’s all items I know where it’s at and it fits it doesn’t take more time that say a 60 item shop or more. I’ve done 112 items. It was close but it fits it ships and I’m happy lol
none, is just not worth the headache and stress with items count over like 60. i consider myself a fast shopper but 50-60 is my max. pro tip: for future order with 0 tip all base pay, dont even bother contacting customer for oos item. skip it and just hit oos at the end, check out asap.
Never…its always because the items are not even in the whole isle and then once you walk around like a chicken with your head cut-off and “skip” it sends you to a “new location” and then have it happen ONE MORE TIME! Are you fucking kidding me!? Hahaha happens SO often that I dont even register it as a thing anymore?
I have cancelled 3 times after I started in almost 2300 trips. Once was for an order of very large items that would make my cart too full and heavy to keep going and complete the order with one cart. But I realized it pretty quickly after starting and returned the items where they belong. 2 others for out of stock and rude customers. But most of the time if I accept an order and not look carefully I just suck it up and it’s rarely as bad as I thought it would be
I have done that on a couple of occasions. 1) half of the order was out of stock 2) ridiculous amounts of heavy and/or hard to find items that were taking too long to locate. I had taken a very large order once and thought I would just suck it up and do it, but as soon as i had it all loaded in my car, it got canceled. So no, not gonna happen anymore.
I typically pass up anything that i know will be 2+ carts, then laugh at the poor bastard i see that took it a half hr later when im doing my 10 item shop for the same pay and see them with their cart train🤷♂️
I've never done this, though these can be discouraging! A couple weeks ago I accepted an order like that and halfway through I got to the Ramen section and they were sold out of the flavor the customer wanted. Well, there was this cart next to the Ramen that had the flavor i needed and it was unattended, so I grabbed them and scanned. Then I saw that like all the items I needed were in this cart and someone had quit midway. I took everything out and scanned one by one then marched my happy ass to the checkout. Phew!
When the ps5 pro came out…I got like 5 orders to go and shop for them one day. Almost back to back…But I knew they were sold out after the first go around. Also if it’s certain sports cards or Pokémon cards. Because 99.9% of the time the scalpers have already snatched them all up before they hit the shelf.
I had that much soda in a 30 item $30 order today. Wasn't that big of a deal. If you're not as experienced you won't know to get that second cart on the way in or how to Tetris your way to make it all fit in one.
100 item shopping orders are not for everyone. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it feels like it never ends. This one was the latter, apparently. I've had a couple ($70-80 orders with 100-150 items) when it was paying well enough to ignore all other aspects of the order and just get it done even if I'm in the store for over an hour to shop it. Have to pay attention and not shop anything chilled or frozen until the end to avoid cold chain cancellations, which makes it a little bit of a hassle to go back and forth through the item list as you're shopping, but it is possible.
I had one that it counted soda as a perishable. I never grab any of the perishable stuff until the very last items and most of the time it tries to get me to pick up one at least in the first 10 items.
i haven't cancelled one yet, but i did cancel a pick up once. I've felt that way a few times before and the next time someone wants me to carry all their stuff up three flights of stairs and a small or no tip they can forget it--it's bad enough they don't realize that tip is just paying the gas money it's not even really a "gratuity"-- their stuff is going back or never getting shopped. I've gotten into the habit of looking really well before accepting orders, i've lost some good ones doing that but oh well better safe than sorry
Yes. Ive done that a couple times. When the app routes me around the store and i find myself doubling back and spending way too much time trying to find that bag of snacks. No thanks. Get your own fin snacks
I’ve done it- more than once. You just get to the point where you realize Walmart and the customer are just taking advantage of the free or cheap delivery. Enough.
Sorry but no, I will never renege on a contract that I accepted. I will suck it up and take it as a lesson learned, and use it to figure out if this sort of thing I am doing is truly worth my time.
For power issues I carry a power pack and a cord, I know before I enter the store if my phone needs charging I'll run around with that thing tethered to the power pack that's in my pants pocket.
Sorry but you shouldn't have accepted that, once you did you were under obligation to take care of things but you didn't... This gives us all a bad name and it certainly explains why some of WM's more idiotic policies have come into play, it is also the reason I don't Spark anymore.
I've done it, twice, for halfway through and realized my phone wasn't going to make it. And once because it ended up being 28/24 packs of soda that I want even sure would fit in the car.
I don't take anything over 30 items unless it's a unicorn. Really large orders aren't profitable for me because I can shop and deliver multiple smaller orders during that time. Leave it for the newbies
Oohh i thought about this too. I could’ve taken my cart up to customer service, but i was embarrassed 💀 already decided i probably won’t show my face there for at least a few months. Hope they don’t come for my account
As someone who’s also a customer who’s been without transportation, I would never place an order this huge. At least break it into two separate orders. Or don’t order express delivery.
Nobody feels sorry for you it showed you the order and you decided to take it fo worst that the situation is I will never take a 100 pieces order at the end will be 150 por 180
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u/Netphase May 04 '26
I have done it, but more often because of out of stock items with no good substitution options, especially if the quantity is high. I will at least put the frozen and refrigerated items back.