Walmart Supercenter 901 Row River Road, Cottage Grove, OR 97424

"Signed up as a Spark delivery driver to make money as a gig worker delivering Walmart orders. Was initially disappointed with the lack of offers made to me after going through their months long approval process. The app continually sends you shopping orders, which send you walking back and forth across the entire store hunting for each item as they are often not located where the app says they should be. After spending three hours inside the store shopping, its extremely confusing how to check out, because the items have already been paid for. The amount of pay you receive for all the time spent picking, checking out, driving to the destination, and delivering the items doesn't even pay for your gas, let alone reimburse you for your time. I even called the driver support number to ask why so few offers were coming through. They told me that new drivers are not given many offers, while drivers who have been with Spark longer get the lion's share of good offers. So I stopped doing the Spark deliveries for several months. I continued to receive the incentive notifications during that time, and decided to give it a shot again this last week of 2023. Wednesday, I was offered one non-shopping trip, and made $8.00 for 4 hours worth of waiting. Thursday, I completed two offered non-shopping trips, and made a total of $26.66 for 3 hours of waiting, Friday, spent 4 hours again and made 1 run with 3 stops. I did make $60.00, but $40.00 of it was from one tip. Without that tip, I would have made a measly $20.00. Saturday (today), I made $0.00 waiting for 2 hours, and no non-shopping offers. Several others made repeated pickups during the same time today. I tried calling driver support, and they will no longer discuss the lack of offers with people. The phone server just hangs up on you. The Spark app teases you with all those incentive offers of bonues, etc, but then refuses to offer trips to help you achieve those goals. So to sum this up, I spent 13 hours in four days waiting for non-shopping offers, and made $99.00 for my effort. So my hourly rate of return was $7.62 per hour (-$4.54 per hour leaving out the $40 tip I received). Hardly worth my gas, time or effort to work this. I recommend not wasting your time or gas with this app. There are other more lucrative gig opportunities out there for you to focus on."

"Self checkout is not user friendly. I don’t enjoy shopping and then doing someone else’s job while they stand there and watch me bag up my own groceries. Oh wait… they don’t have any bags unless you remember to grab them before checking out. Merchandise locked up have to hunt down an associate to get help. It is frustrating and Walmart is coming to its end I think."

"I was in for a vaccination yesterday afternoon and had to wait a bit. The pharmacy was so busy. I was very impressed by the pharmacist who was literally running the entire time trying to keep up with consultations and vaccine appointments. She was kind, cheerful and efficient. Please take a note Walmart: your pharmacist is truly exceptional and should have additional help if expected to run a vaccine clinic along with regular duties."

"A quick trip for things you can't find locally. The service desk is quite helpful. I do hesitate to ask staff for locations of items,as most of them have quite a long list of tasks that they need to get done during their shift. Prices are reasonable. The store is clean, produce fresh, a large variety of lunch meats and other lunch must-haves. Large dairy section. Clothes aren't the best quality but serviceable."

"I walk in and there is a young woman working here who is helping a woman in a wheelchair. She was very nice, professional, and easy going. Give this person a raise. She is too cool. My nephew is on some kind of Prime Drink / Beast(?) Chocolate Bar kick. I do not know. This store did not have what he was looking for. Wal-Marts are moving their groceries up front. Doing their part in the Grocery Chain Lack-of-Competitive-Pricing Notwars."