{"id":1021168,"date":"2026-07-15T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021168"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:01:38","slug":"walmart-says-new-spark-app-feature-helps-shoppers-delivery-workers-claim-it-is-slowing-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/walmart-says-new-spark-app-feature-helps-shoppers-delivery-workers-claim-it-is-slowing-them-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart says new Spark app feature helps shoppers; delivery workers claim it is slowing them down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart recently updated its Spark app with a feature it says is designed to help shoppers navigate stores more efficiently. However, some delivery workers have reportedly claimed that the new system is slowing in-store shopping by dynamically changing item routes. The delivery workers also complained that this new feature is increasing walking time and, in some cases, prompting them to pick up frozen items earlier than they consider ideal, a report noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Business Insider, the updated Spark app replaces a fixed in-store shopping route with a system called Smart Path that tracks a worker&#8217;s location and continuously rearranges the shopping list based on proximity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart recently updated its Spark app with a feature it says is designed to help shoppers navigate stores more efficiently. However, some delivery workers have reportedly claimed that the new system is slowing in-store shopping by dynamically changing item routes. The delivery workers also complained that this new feature is increasing walking time and, in some cases, prompting them to pick up frozen items earlier than they consider ideal, a report noted. According to a report by Business Insider, the updated Spark app replaces a fixed in-store shopping route with a system called Smart Path that tracks a worker&#8217;s location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021170,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021168\/revisions\/1021170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}