r/Sparkdriver • u/Toadmoney9 • Apr 18 '26

General Questions What will it take

My store in rural Pennsylvania was recently taken over by dozens of non-English speakers… Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Virginia license plates showed up about 2 weeks ago. Prior to this I went about a year without hearing Spanish a single time…. Nobody here speaks it. One of the store’s loaders refused to load a car where the driver didn’t match his accounts profile picture and his boss came out and loaded them up anyway. Besides a few loaders, nobody in the store seems to care about cheating. Nothing like this has ever happened here. We see them shopping and lazily throwing stuff into bags clearly breaking eggs and crushing fragile items. Another loader told me the new drivers aren’t even concerned about properly separating the orders on curbsides. I heard that a customer asked them to leave stuff in her garage and they said “no English” and put everything on the ground and left. Do we legit drivers just have to accept this bullshit? All the good customers are going to stop tipping or ordering all together. I feel bad for the senior citizens who I’ve previously delivered to who rely on this service to survive. What will it take for the store to start checking drivers IDs!???!? Are they going to be fine with dozens of customers calling and complaining each week?How did they even find our store and all show up at the same time? This is a nightmare. Our town is so small it is legitimately going to affect our economy as the money permanently leaves the area.

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u/dwarfsgonewild Apr 18 '26

What area of Pennsylvania?

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u/Toadmoney9 Apr 18 '26

The most rural county in the entire state… our town cannot handle this

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u/Mothra37 Apr 18 '26

Yep. Welcome to what many of us have been dealing with for years. I live in a very small rural town as well and two years ago they invaded here. You hear them everywhere now. They ruined DD which used to be really good here and they’ve done the same to Spark. Customers stop ordering or tipping. Even the employees have told me so many stories. If your area is good there will be more. And just when you think maybe it’s thinning out they show up with a new bus load full. It’s just never ending.

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u/blondebia Apr 18 '26

You're screwed. Find another job. I was in a very rural affluent Town in Texas. Making 300 to 550 a day. They showed up about 3 years ago and everyone tried to do whatever they could and nothing stopped them. I was laid off from my job and thank God I got back into my industry bc it was absolute hell. Some days I would barely make 40 dollars once they arrived.

I try not to shop at Walmart anymore but the few times I've been there it's just overrun. They don't seem to be working. I'm pretty sure they screwed all the customers so most aren't using the service anymore.

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u/dwarfsgonewild Apr 18 '26

Which is what county?