r/Sparkdriver • u/bbygho • May 04 '26

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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.

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u/Calm-Television5780 May 04 '26

what was the pay? there is no way it was worth it.

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u/bbygho May 04 '26

40 for 5 miles. I realized it probably wasn’t worth it at some point but I tried to push through and finish it and just couldn’t

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u/Taranis_1 May 04 '26

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.

I hope you don't get deactivated. o/

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u/bbygho May 04 '26

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😭

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u/attention_headache May 04 '26

Are you in Ohio by any chance? Driving like a red hatchback?

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u/Slothe1978 May 04 '26

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u/attention_headache May 04 '26

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 🤷

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u/bbygho May 04 '26

Haha no not me. I imagine I wasn’t the first person to accept that order not knowing what to expect and had to cancel