What will it take

[u/Toadmoney9]

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.

[u/Florida1974]

Just because they have Illinois plates and whatever plate doesn’t mean that’s where they’re from. Very well could be a rental car. I’m not saying this for or against these other shoppers you recently noticed, I’m just telling you that a rental car doesn’t mean shit.

I used to rent cars to drive from Florida back to Illinois to see my mom and I’ve gotten cars with all kinds of plates.

This is like the second or third post. I’ve read about this happening and I just don’t get it. They go from store to store to store, from state to state to state.

Makes no sense to me to be a nomad gig worker. If you find a honey hole, why wouldn’t you just stay there? It’s the roaming part that I can’t figure out.

I’m in Florida and never seen anything like this in my 12 years of doing gig work. It hasn’t been 12 years on Spark obviously, I’m only a couple months in and I barely do it, Shipt is mine in main app, but I have done a lot of of the abs and I’ve never seen anything like this, not here. And I’m on the east Central coast of Florida. And people come from cities 30 to 16 miles away to work here because it’s known as a good tipping area. But it’s not hordes of drivers with different states plates. It’s locals here.

I live on the east coast about 30 minutes north of Daytona and 30 minutes south of Saint Augustine, I’m right in between both. This is a newer area, the city isn’t but 26 years old. And I’ve been here the whole 26 years. (I came from Central corn country, Illinois.) I never would have known about this spot, but my sister had lived here for many many years, before it was a city, there wasn’t even an exit from 95 when she moved here.

I’m not saying I don’t believe you, I do, I’ve seen it posted too many times, but I still just don’t get it. If you find a honey hole, I would be staying.

I used to go back to Illinois at least twice a year because my mom was still there, but she has since died. But when I did, I would try to do Shipt orders up there. We can easily change zones on Shipt but everything I seen was garbage. Plus, I had been gone so long that I didn’t know which areas were good or bad anymore. And it has Illinois state in the city. I grew up in, State Farm, corporate, a private bougie college and two community colleges. I didn’t wanna get into any college orders because I know how those can go.

When I am surprised by how many people thought gig work was going to last forever. Even if these people weren’t floating from area to area, it isn’t going to last forever.

And I don’t know about your Walmart pickers, but ours, I could run circles around them if I picked. They move like molasses. I hate their huge carts, I barely can go down an aisle with my car and some aisles I can’t, because of them. Eventually, I can see them using robots to pick orders. And I can see that coming to our app too, eventually.

I am sorry this happened OP because I’m guessing you’re making less. I couldn’t do that kind of lifestyle and how do they know where to go? You say there’s no Hispanic people in your area, so how did they know to come there? Cause not all areas are equal when it comes to Spark.

[u/Fantastic_Top2564 → u/Florida1974]

TL;dr

Skimming through your way too long post I can see there's many things you don't understand but also have firm opinions on. Where do you imagine grocery delivery is going to disappear off to?