Some delivery customers offer tips they don't intend to pay to trick drivers into taking an order. This "tip baiting" isn't new, but drivers say it's especially bad on Walmart's Spark platform.

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" ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

ARKANSAS, USA — Walmart is being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for requiring its grocery delivery drivers to get paid through a "costly and risky product," according to court ...

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 ...

Walmart asked its Spark delivery drivers this week to take their drivers licenses to stores so their identities could be verified amid claims of fraud and misuse of drivers' accounts. Some drivers are ...

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 ...

Walmart is asking some Spark delivery drivers to verify their identities at a store. Gig delivery workers get $15 for verifying their identity in person. Some drivers have used Spark accounts to make ...