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Spark City is an iPhone and Android Games App, made by Walmart. Today, it has gone through many interations by the developers - Walmart, with the latest current version being 1.6.0 which was officially released on 2019-11-18. As a testament to the app's popularity or lack thereof, it has gathered a total of 394 Reviews on the Apple App Store alone, with an average user rating of 3.8 out of a possible 5 stars.
In the backroom and on the sales floor, simple yet effective processes help maximize On Shelf Customer Availability and Sales, while keeping the area Clean, Fast and Friendly. A fun, yet informative adventure featuring retail concepts that are actually proven to work.
Be in charge of your own area, and see what it takes to achieve successful results in Spark City
Love Love Love!
Loving this game so far. I’ve excelled in managing all the available departments and cannot wait for the dev to create some new ones. It’s an extremely engaging game that really helps you to understand how a department store like Walmart works on the inside. I love business management games and even though I’m a little bit sad that I completed the game in under 24 hours, I am really happy with how it works. I have read some of the reviews about the glitches and of course there are some minor issues but really nothing to stop me from playing the game. Thanks for creating it. Again I really look forward to the deli department and the cashouts department coming soon.
Accurate for a Sim
It's definitely accurate as far as day to day tasks and drive by notes from managers while you're mid-task. I played and talked to another associate who had just downloaded it and it sounded like we were talking about work so it can be a good training intro to Walmart, too. Ready for the future updates to allow promotions and more challenges so it won't become repetitive... Even though that's pretty realistic, too.
Interesting but need to fix issues
I’m now at the Electronics Dept. but for some reason I’m stuck in the back room. I cannot go out to the sales floor. It keeps telling me that I need to do the audit which doesn’t have any icons/buttons to click. Also, it’s telling me to assign Keyes but the key lockbox doesn’t have the icon to click. Developers, please fix this issue. It would have been fun playing this game.
Welcome to a crash course of what doesn’t happen at Walmart
This game is the expectation but in reality you would never be able to finish all of your tasks with 2 hours to spare because in real life they pull the dms to go work in other areas of the store to make help those dms out. But other then that is pretty realistic as far as working at Walmart goes. My only complaint is how can you stop shoplifters while you are on the force lunch break or during the time your are completing the task you can’t stop it to prevent it. Also I have my sales at +10% and my CFF score is at 102% I don’t think they can go any higher. But my OSCA score will not budge from 98%. I don’t understand why it won’t go higher when I complete all tasks and make the right decisions with 2 hours to spare. Anyone know how?
Great game but Needs changes
I really love this game but I feel like we should be able to assign a few tasks at a time to employees and let them do it one after another instead of having to keep going back and checking when they’re done to assign them to the next task. Another thing is that there are too many tasks assigned in one day and the time goes by too fast. There should be a limit to the amount of tasks so that everything for that day can be completed on that day. Other than that this game is great.
Walmart simulation game
Really enjoyed the realistic atmosphere of this game. I truly thought it was accurate and would love to continue with playing; however midway through being the DM over garden center the game freezes and my associates start glitching. I have reset the app, restarted my phone and started several new games. I would love to give this game a five star, but simply can’t because I can’t continue playing through. I would love to see this fixed!!!!! Thank you though for an otherwise amazing realistic game!
Not enough time
This game is really fun other than the fact that I don’t have enough time to finish things. If y’all could make it to where we could work later than 4 like 6 or 7 that would be great. Also the game has a few glitches like when I go to do section work it doesn’t do it immediately it will take a while before it finally works but other than that this game is really fun to play
It’s just ok.
I like it. But I’m on Week 6 and I’m still the L&G DM. That’s silly. I don’t know why I would go from grocery DM to L&G DM? I like it so far, but there needs to be a little bit more to it. Also, when scanning overstock in the backroom, it’s not entirely accurate on when you need to investigate overstock. I’m an assistant manager at Walmart and if an item has a total on hand of 20, there is 5 already binned in, shelf cap is set to 5 and case quantity is 10. That would mean there is a case of 10 right in front of me and an assumed amount of 5 on the shelf, which is the max the shelf will hold. Why would I need to investigate the overstock? It always counts me off as lost sales because I chose to bin it. Also, we have topstock now. So essentially, it should go out on topstock instead of binning it. And if I’m doing section work and filling outs on each aisle without a cart of freight present, that would mean that this store in the game DOES in fact, have topstock. But what do I know?
True to life, but needs more
I have played through four weeks of in game time so far, and while this game can be soothing if you need something mindless to play, it definitely needs some work. Pros: this game is fairly true to life with a normal retail job (except for having an hour lunch break, which I don’t know any retail job that gives that). Monotony of the job, getting yelled at when you don’t do the right thing and constant interruptions as you try to balance completing work and helping customers, all the way down to trying to fill out the day if you finish your work early and just have to putter around until the end of shift (the dragged out time at the end of each day was an evil touch). Cons: as a game, there isn’t much here. They may include more later, but right now it has only one area unlocked. Once I figured out the game mechanics, I was able to max out the stats by the end of the first two weeks. Everything after that was just maintaining that level, which didn’t take a lot of work. I kept hoping for something more, and (unless I’m missing something) I don’t think there is more. Decent for a quick, free mobile game, but the devs need to add more to the gameplay to make it worth our time.
Freezes
Game is pretty true to life. Couple things though, I’ve now twice gotten to DM in GC at week 4 and I end up with four associates named Jane and no one else, and the game freezes midway and won’t let me assign tasks to anyone, not even myself. I’ve gotten pretty high on both CFF & OSCA but does not offer opportunity in another department? I can’t assign a task if I’m in middle of a task & when assigning the culling job in the garden patio, typically one person gets assigned to it all, period, just like watering tasks, or the register; instead, I keep having to reassign each task 100 times, not really how it would go? It would be nice to have someone else guard a spill from time to time? (HAHA!). Overall, it’s a pretty decent basic game. Fix the bugs though please.
Fun game with challenges but too limited
The game as it was designed is fun and challenging. It isn’t too overly comber some though. Initially you have to fail a lot before you learn the ropes. Probably true to real life? I think to get 5* they need to expand and make this a full game and not just two departments. Give us the experience of starting out as a cart pusher and making it to CEO like Doug! :) Ok that probably won’t happen, but at least develops it in the next update to the point of becoming store manager. I think WalMart is on to something here. Give people an opportunity to learn about retailing. Teach everyone what Associates go through so that customers understand the amount they have to focus on during the day. :)
L&G DM Price Changes Impossible
I love this game, and can speed right through the Grocery DM part. However, no matter how on process I am in L&G, it’s impossible to get the price changes done without neglecting everything else. I usually get every other task on my daily routine to 100% including random ASM assignments. However no matter how hard I try, I just cannot get the price changes done and caught up. I can usually get to the price changes and start, but never get more than a few done and the day is over. This must be a glitch, as I have tried so many different things to get them done. I always got the price changes done in Grocery, but can’t in L&G.
Kind of challenging
This game can be very challenging I wish they would give them more than to work than just till 4 o clock because there’s a lot of stuff you have to do and they don’t give you much time at all and then it carries onto the next day and it just keeps adding more things that you have to do if they would give you more time to work In the store everything would get done instead of working just till 4pm it makes the game even more harder it needs some updating because I been getting glitches as well it happens when you try to walk near the customer service desk and the game freezes up and then I have to restart it I wish they wouldn’t give you so much stuff to do in a certain amount of time it just makes it difficult to keep up with everything
Flips out
On what I would guess is second level, lawn and garden, after a few days in, the whole app flips out. People start following you, some associates disappear, controls disappear, some associates become 4, instead of walking people start gliding. As a retired Walmart associate, I enjoy the game. Lots of realism. In reading some of the other reviews it seems I must have made it further in. At the Walmarts I’ve worked in we did have a mandatory hour lunch. Walmart, please fix this app. I have this review because the “contact developer” takes me to the website which has nothing to do with this app. I would love to give it 5 stars. Thank you
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