I’ve had several customers today call me having a fit because I’ve had to turn around and return their order, because the flooding is to the point I cannot safely reach their address, or the roads are washing out and I can’t get through even in 4WD.

I’ll apologize profusely, but I’m not risking my safety or tearing my truck apart, over this. It’s still raining and we’re still under flash flood warnings. It’s getting darker and more dangerous by the minute so I’m done for the day. But it’s been a long, frustrating day.

I was just less than $5 off from making $400 in a single day!!

Sundays are my busiest days as I'm sure that's the case for all of you. I always get up and start sparking at 6am and am very consistent all day. Well today I have YET to get a single order come through!!! How can this be possible? Anyone else every have something similar happen?

Hope this brings a smile to someone face today 👿😈 If not might something else bring some joy to your day, enjoy and be safe out there people!

It’s almost like the note dares you to ring it, especially with that "if you ring the bell, I will remove the tip" threat.

Ringing it twice would probably make the guy’s soul leave his body. 😂

If I had to guess why others still rang it... the “you may hear the dog” part kind of dilutes the message. Like, why even mention the dog if the core instruction is just “don’t ring”? It adds noise to what should be a crystal-clear directive. I could see someone skimming it and thinking the takeaway is: "It’s fine to ring, just ignore the dog."

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Shoutout to Walmart’s Asset Protection for going above and beyond on a recent Spark pickup.

Because clearly, nothing screams “security threat” like a Spark driver with:

• 1292 deliveries
• 100% completion
• 100% on-time pickups
• And a 4.8 customer rating…

…wearing a black hoodie.

Here’s the rundown: • Order was fully bagged — like always. • Greeter said nothing. • An unidentified man blocked me, demanded my receipt. • I asked him to check the bags with the receipt for accuracy. • They refused. Then called the cops. • I got handcuffed. In front of employees, customers, my wife, and my neurodivergent children. • I wasn’t arrested. Just humiliated. • Spark deactivated me. • One AP guy even said, “Not anymore,” after I told him I had a clean record. Real professional.

My daughters are still asking if “Daddy went to jail.” My wrist still hurts. I’ve lost my income. I’ve lost my dignity. All because I asked for fairness and transparency.

Appreciate the lesson: Don’t be efficient. Don’t ask questions. And definitely don’t wear a hoodie while being Black.

About 11 huge bricks, whatever they're called, from the home depot. Heavy as crap.

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Even if I was a “hot single girl” why would I leave my number when obviously you’re too much of a broke ass to tip. Cringy. I was wanting him to open the door so I could say those same words to him. I’d take the 1 star. Idgaf.

I didn’t even learn about my metrics until yesterday but I noticed yesterday my CR was at a 4.8 and today it’s at a 4.5, I really don’t do anything wrong but things do happen every now and again. Dogs bark sometimes even if I don’t knock on the door, if I can’t find an item I’ll usually spend at least 5 minutes looking for it behind other things so if I mark it out of stock it’s REALLY out of stock. I haven’t done anything wrong yet my rating still dropped. I’m not sure if I need to be worried or if this fluctuation is normal as you continue accepting orders.

Why is it so slow?

First off, I deliver for several apps, including Spark and others, but mainly for Amazon Flex, so I understand the gig. Anyway, I ordered about $50 worth of items - about 3 bags of stuff. My child had just come inside from walking our dog, but apparently they forgot to lock the door. We were on the couch watching TV in our living room, which is where the front door opens into.

All of a sudden (around 9pm) we hear the knob jiggling and turning. Before either of us could react, this dude opens the door and sticks his head inside the door with the bags in his hand as if he's trying to place the bags inside of the house by the door. I get up and ask him what the f*ck he was doing. He just kept repeating "sorry, sorry, sorry". I took the bags and he backed he head out of the door, then I shut it and locked it.

My child and I were in shock for a while after and then we had a chat about the importance of locking the door... which hopefully finally sunk in. This happened last night, but I'm still in disbelief that he would even try to open someone's door like that. He is a foreigner (sounded Indian, but he literally only said "sorry" repeatedly, so I'm not 100% sure). But, damn... that was such a wild experience! Glad everyone is okay.

SHE GOT INTIMIDATED BY THE POWER OF BLUE AND THE LACK OF GREEN 💵 (in the comments section I'll put what the pay was )

We've been using our Walmart+ account recently (last couple months) for our weekly grocery shopping.

We pay the $5 upgrade for 3 hour delivery. We live 9.6 miles, 17 mins from our Walmart. Not much traffic for the trip. Normally purchase between 80 and 100 items, $300 average bill, with the biggest being a case of water or bucket of cat litter. We help carry the groceries to our door to limit the work on the driver.

I tip $20. Even if the driver does not respond to any of my chats about alternatives.

I'm curious about feedback on this tip from actual drivers. We get repeat drivers a lot. I'm not sure if there is a way for them to know they've delivered to us before.

Well, I had a good size batch order yesterday around the Waverly, Ohio area that took me until the evening to finish. On the last trip there was a pretty long steep driveway and these are always a bit sketch for me and my car. Not to mention this driveway basically a creek on either side. So, I try making my way up and of course get stuck. I thought I’d try and get a better run up from the bottom and started to reverse back down. That’s when I basically rolled back and somehow my car also shift a bit to the passenger side, sliding off of the drive into the ditch/creek on the side. Of course my car gets stuck, it’s raining, and now dark out. This is my last delivery, all I want is to get it there and go home right? Now my car is basically at risk of falling into this mess and sliding off worse. So, I try to contact the customer to no avail and decided to walk up to the door and knock. An older lady came to the door and I explained: “Hello I’m with Spark driver, I have an order with me from Walmart for this name and address. While I was coming up the drive way my car got stuck. Is there anything you could do to help pull it out?” She says it’s just her and her older relative who was an elderly woman. That’s when she offered to call her sister, who lived near by, to send her husband for help. I said: “Okay, that might work. I’m going to go down and call the roadside assistance with my insurance, I’ll try to hurry back up with the package.” As I walked back down I took a look around for a few good sized rocks or blocks to stack under my tires and try to get a grip. We got a good bit and stacked them up in the creek up to my tires, I called my wife and got the number for the roadside assistance. Called my useless insurance and requested the wenching service. After waiting a few minutes a truck pulled in to the drive and up to my car. Of course, I assumed this was the sister’s husband and I was relieved that help had arrived. So, with my phone in my hand with the flashlight, I gave a little wave and started to walk over. At that time a man and his passenger, with guns already drawn, jumped out of the driver seat. I threw my hands up and said “woah, woah, woah. He said “Stop right there boys.” Then proceeded to interrogate me, asking who I was and why I was there. My trunk was open and I had two brown packages from Walmart in it. Including the app on my phone with the customers name, I could also see what items they had. Insisting that I was there for delivery, I showed him everything to prove what I was saying is true. He calls his wife and makes me tell her everything all over again, at this point I started to get overwhelmed and started to get distraught. I was shaking, crying, on the verge of hyperventilating while trying to explain the situation. After about 5 minutes they lower their guard and I gave them the packages. He said all he knew was he got a call from family late at night talking about two suspicious guys messing around the property. (irrelevant context: my dad rides around with me while I work sometimes.) He said that they were just doing what they thought was right. I do understand to an extent, I just think I would have started with a verbal warning before drawing down on the delivery guy. So, anyway after all this I let them I called for a wenching and they were supposed to be coming. He said he’d go ahead and wait to see and drove his truck up around my car to the front of us. After piling rocks as far up as we could to support the passenger side of the car and waiting, my dad walked up and asked if we could just go ahead try to pull it out. They had brought chains and we hooked it up, I got in put in neutral and he tried to send it. The car started to move and came out a little bit, then they said to put it in gear and steer it. After a few tried and all the drama, they ended up pulling it while I was driving it out. Finally, the car was out with basically no damage. He explained again, apologized for causing me to become so hysterical and said there were no hard feelings. I said that I was trying to understand and got in the car to back out of the driveway and be on my way. My dad was guiding me and I was too nervous so I had him do it instead. We finally got out of there by 10:30, one of the worst deliveries ever. Am I the only one who thinks it was an over reaction? I mean I know I forgot to bring the package back up to the lady, but I told her the situation and she still said we were just suspicious guys on her property. I want to say I understand, but he could have given a clear warning that he had a firearm without pointing it at me and my dad. The person who placed the order should have been expecting it and I can’t control how late I receive them. Not to mention the fact that I always text and send a message to let them know their delivery is on its way. There were so many ways to go about it before actually drawing down and giving us both a hearth attack. He could have slipped or anything in the heat of the moment and shot one of us over a Walmart order. Do I really need a uniform or carry a big blinking sign Walmart sign to prove who I am?

Edit: I also called driver support and reported the address for this because besides all of that, there should be a warning or just a heads up in the notes or on the app and there was nothing. I had no idea about the raging stream or the difficult driveway, hopefully another driver doesn’t have to go through that.

Been siting here for 45 minutes. Just called and they said it would be another 15 to 20 minutes. Only reason I haven't canceled is because I need this one for an incentive and it paid well for the amount of millage.

Still have yet to be asked to scan my social security card, and we are now 4 days past april 1st. It sucks that there are soo many fraud accounts that i have been pushed out of my zone. But im just fortunate to other gig apps that have stepped up. Hopefully i will get asked for my social security card soon and it will hopefully boot out some of these fake accounts. But i wont hold my breath. I hope the rest of u are also doing okay

So over heard the other day from some other drivers that people are using multiple phones and having separate accounts. I seen someone also the other day getting back to back to back shopping orders while I got nothing. Anyone experience this or know if it’s true?

How the F is it that I have 4 Walmarts surrounding me and yet absolutely no offers… been doing this for two years 4.8 whatever diamond status bullshit fuck you Walmart fuck you spark sorry I don’t feel like being classy today so fuck you again