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Ok so let me start with the app glitches which at times are ridiculous. They used to be daily occurrences. I hope this update has fixed them. Secondly, we shouldn’t have to wait on tips. Quit playing games with us to get the cheapest labor possible. Either it’s bad customers or them themselves stealing from the people that work for them and it isn’t right. Especially when dealing with customers that will have you going back and forth up floors to their apartment door for orders. They should have a process in place where they got to call in and have a good reason why they are taking a tip off. Sometimes though they got good offers for batches for example, but batches are another mixed bag as if the Walmart employees themselves don’t want to or feel the need to get the batches loaded up and they will play games on your time and make you miss incentives to make good money doing this. Then you got to waste time with support filing complaints on them to get new people hired. (Or atleast I do.) In good markets you can definitely make good money doing this long as you aren’t dealing with shotty employees and or customers though I also agree with others that it can get over saturated with too many drivers and then you can’t get good offers all the time either. So, definitely things to consider if you want to do this.Show lessClear Spectre
Company being greedy
This long over due to say but when these companies first started they was only charging $1 to use the platforms. Sparks don’t show how much they charging you. The customer get 1 and 2 waters and don’t tip. Plus they live in an apartment and the company don’t take care of the drivers. This company 2 years ago paid good before Walmart took over. I use to make $175 at the less but almost $300 a day. Now the orders got cheaper, no tip, and multiple orders, high miles. You buying gas way more. It’s a insalting to us as drivers, using our car and we see $9 for 11 miles and the customers has 12 items plus waters. Now they want us to shop and deliver for multiple people with the same money. Technically they don’t pay you to shop. We spend 20to 40 mins shopping and then bag it up and put it in the car. Drive there, take it out and put it on their porch or go to an apartment on the the 3rd floor for $12 . Now everything need to be $20 and up. Everything has went up but Walmart giving free deliveries wayyyy to much and that’s why the drivers not making out. You have to really be out working from early morning to night to make money. It take 5 hours to make $100, while u tearing up your car on these roads. I DONT RECOMMEND SPARKS find another hustle.Show lessmoenik1
Poverty
Working below the poverty level. Eight hours to make less than a hundred dollars but then there is the cost of gas, vehicle maintenance, tires, and they wear out fast with driving over 100 miles a day. 20,000 miles in about eight months. Sometimes when the app crashes then a driver will be lucky to get $20 on four hours. Then sometimes don’t send any offers for over two hours. A driver will be lucky to make $10 an hour but they don’t pay on driving to pickup an order or driving back after an order was delivered. But if you need to make some money for food, it’s barely enough to pay for groceries or rent. I’m very disappointed but not surprised that Walmart would pay people about half the minimum wage. Just look at the stores and how minimal they are staffed with employees. A multi billion dollar company takes advantage of the drivers. It’s similar to the history of the experience of Walt Disney of being taken advantage of and manipulated into poverty. Walmart should at least pay livable rates for drivers. Or are they playing favorites for some of the drivers?
But then how much a driver gets paid depends on the zone they drive in. Some zones make drivers drive for well above 100 miles for significantly less money and less than $80, but could reach 200 in a day to earn a little closer to $100.
So, what a driver makes is lost in gas and wear on one’s vehicle, but it’s worse for those driving SUV or trucks.Show lessAOF World Traveler