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Every time an Alabama-based driver for Walmart's Spark delivery service accepts an order, a deadline for him to report to his local Walmart flashes on the Spark app. He often has around 10 minutes to ...

One Indiana delivery worker can recall just a few times when someone took away his tip after he delivered their Instacart order over his past 2½ years as a gig worker. When he works for Walmart's ...

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Gig delivery workers get $15 for verifying their identity in person. Some drivers have used Spark accounts to make deliveries under other people's names. Walmart is asking some of its Spark drivers to ...

A Spark driver shares the challenges within the gig economy when it comes to tipping behavior between gated communities and apartment complexes. In the heart of northwest Arkansas, a Spark driver ...

Walmart surprised some of its Spark delivery workers with extra money — tips that they were entitled to, but didn't get until now. Walmart notified Spark gig workers about the "tip adjustment" ...

The U.S. consumer finance watchdog sued Walmart and workforce payments provider Branch Messenger, accusing the companies of ...

Walmart's Spark Driver platform is celebrating its fifth anniversary. In a post on the retailer's website, Nav Chadha, vice president of On-Demand Delivery at Walmart, said that what started as a way ...