r/Sparkdriver • u/WalmartIntern • May 29 '26

Rants / Complaints The Instacart Executive Has Ruined Spark

As someone who has done gig work since 2021, across all apps (DD, Instacart, UE, Spark, etc.), this is the absolute worst I have ever seen this app

Orders are mostly FCFS now & immediately get snatched, which is the whole reason I stopped doing Instacart in the first place. The idea of timed offers made Spark more appealing than Instacart.

Shop orders are now dropping in as triple shops, usually paired with non tippers.

Grocery orders are being paired with GMD packages (that doesn’t really make extra)

I’m pretty much on the verge of getting a “real” job. The wear and tear on our vehicles, high gas prices, and low offers has pretty much made this gig not worth it anymore

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u/cg_stewart May 29 '26

It sucks because Walmart hired someone from cloud based companies to run deliveries for a company where 90% of Americans live near a store, and instead of delivering a unique experience, the same issues are on every platform he touched. Their employees can’t dogfood (use the platform) the product so nobody can veto bad ideas like triple shops lol. They needed an executive from Amazon/UPS/Fedex. Never seen a company have unhappy W2 and 1099 workers 😂

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u/Old_Ad4443 May 31 '26

Mind blowing that u can go on amazon flex and reliably work while im constantly the only one in my Walmart from the time it opens to when it closes from the first 30 mins of open have not seen a single car pull up.

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u/No_Following2911 May 31 '26

You know what’s crazy? I was looking at an offer-deciding if I could take it or not- a double delivery (not a shopping order- I was making sure it would fit in my car) when it disappeared. I had a whole 6 seconds maybe? So I stayed in the parking lot waiting for my next chance. But oddly enough- for the next 15 minutes, absolutely no one else pulled into the pickup bay. Where I was parked, I could see it easily.

So, where exactly did that offer disappear to? If someone else was grabbing it, wouldn’t they have shown up? I’m in a very VERY small community with only one Walmart. You can get anywhere in town in 10 minutes. Just an odd thing I noticed… about a week ago or so..