04/08/2023
FYI please and feel free to pass it on! Venting! I deliver for Walmart (Spark Delivery)
I really enjoyed it and the pay WAS pretty good. THAT WAS UNTIL WALMART GOT GREEDY! Now instead of giving one order to us Walmart ia trying to not double up, not triple up, but give orders with 5, 7, and 9 different orders in one trip. They call these "Batched Orders" and get this they only count for one delivery. Why does that matter? Well we delivery drivers have incentive programs that give us a bonus for a certain number of trips during a specific time frame. So when Walmart gives us an order with 5,7, or 9 orders in one that counts as one trip! Please explain the logic behind this. The pay for these orders is not even enough to pay for the gas much less the wear and tear. As if this wasn't enough there have been numerous orders I've delivered that was one single item example hair scrunchies or a single box of Welch's fruit gummies! Why in the world would Walmart allow ppl to order one item and also allow the customer to not tip! We delivery drivers make up for the low pay from Walmart with our tips from customers. If I'm shopping for your items, loading them in my car, delivering them to your front door sometimes even inside, I think it's fair to say we deserve tips. Most of my customers have been great and tip amazing! Then there are some that don't tip at all like the order I had for a 57" TV that I delivered to an apartment complex that was on the 3rd floor! They tipped me $0!!! Or all these one item orders like the scrunchies, who is gonna tip on an 2 dollar item? Noone! Walmart needs to step it up or they gonna find themselves with nobody to deliver. I created a page for Spark Delivery drivers so if you know of anyone that works for Spark tell them about my page (see image) thanks.