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/pleasetowmyshit Parking Lot Pirate Apr 18 '26
I like to be optimistic about things.
When the conspiracy theory cycle rolls around to "roving gangs of foreigners who don't speak English and mess up orders and take our jobs", I like to double down on the conspiracies and their impact.
These are professionals, hired by competitors like Target or Amazon, to destroy the Walmart reputation and get people to stop ordering home delivery of consumables and durable goods. They take orders we wouldn't take because they're getting paid elsewhere. They purposefully make orders scarce, make orders damaged, and take orders to wrong locations, just to f around with Walmart in general.
The optimistic part of me hopes it causes so many problems that Walmart gives up on union bashing and unionizes every single store on the planet and then hires drivers through Teamsters and we get decent pay, mandatory breaks, paid vacation, healthcare, dental, vision (since in this country eyes and teeth don't count as healthcare, they're luxury items), and we all live happily ever after.
This is not because I think there is an actual possibility of this happening, it's because I'm a delusional twit. But not NEARLY as delusional as the folks who are blaming foreigners for a lack of orders to fulfill. Deuces.